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  • Stephanie Valencia, first year HCII PhD student, stands in the bridge to Gates

    Valencia named to “Innovators Under 35 Latin America 2017”

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    First-year Human-Computer Interaction PhD student Stephanie Valencia Valencia was named to the MIT Tech Review’s Innovators under 35 Latin America 2017 for her work on the “ijwi” device....

  • students present walking app during course demo

    Students apply computing skills to social causes in new course

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    Tiny lights flashed beside a cardboard replica of the Waterfront smokestacks as a new special topics course wrapped up the semester with final project demos in the Kiesler-Kraut Commons lo...

  • Ken Koedinger is seated in Hillman Professorship chair, while interim CMU president, dean of SCS, and director of HCII stand behind him

    Koedinger Accepts Hillman Professorship of Computer Science

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    Ken Koedinger, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and Department of Psychology, accepted the Hillman Professorship of Computer Science in a ceremony Dec. 6 in the Gates ...

  • HCII students and faculty present fundraising check to UPMC Children's Hospital

    Gaming for good, first-time HCII team raises over $5,000 for the kids

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    Team “Carnage Melon” had lofty goals for its first time participating in the Extra Life charity gaming marathon, but it unlocked the $5,000 badge with an hour to spare....

  • Jodi Forlizzi

    Carnegie Mellon Names Jodi Forlizzi HCII Director

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    Andrew Moore, dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, has appointed Jodi Forlizzi as the new Charles M. Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Insti...

  • five students diagramming with colorful note paper on both walls of a narrow hallway

    Inviting clients for 2018 HCI capstone projects

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    Sponsors Needed for HCI Student Capstone Projects The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 2018 projects. Capstone projects benefi...

  • Brad Myers and Jeff Stylos receive Most Influential Paper Award

    HCII Professor Earns Most Influential Paper Award for Fourth Time in Six Years

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    A 2006 paper co-authored by Jeff Stylos, then-Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student, and Brad Myers, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will receive the Most Influen...

  • Group selfie of the PPP team

    HCII PhD Student Robert Xiao Talks PPP 4th "World Series of Hacking" Win.

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    "The win represents the strength of the team and CMU's dominance in cyber security."...

  • HCII Ph.D. Students Receive CMLH Fellowship in Digital Health

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    Four Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. students are recipients of the Center for Machine Learning and Health (CMLH) Fellowship in Digital Health. Incoming students Prerna Chikersa...

  • Child interacting with IPad

    RoboTutor Advances to Global Learning XPRIZE Semifinals

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    RoboTutor, educational technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University that teaches children basic math and reading skills, has been named a semifinalist in the $15 million Global Learn...

  • Facebook display with three stories

    ChromeView: A Plugin Designed to Fight Selective Exposure

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    "Algorithm models and machine learning systems. Whether we realize it or not, our daily lives center around them," explained a team of Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students in ...

  • Crash Course Computer Science graphic

    HCII Faculty Writers of Crash Course in Computer Science

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    The first known use of the word, computer, was actually in reference to a job title, not a piece of technology. In spite of the past trend for men to more frequently take on the job of com...