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Ogan Attends Third Technology in English Conference
NEWSAmy Ogan, assistant professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, joined fellow researchers at the Technology in English event; a conference for researchers and influencers in per...
Using a Smartphone to Predict the Onset of Depression
NEWSIn early October 2016, rapper Kid Cudi made the headlines after writing on Facebook that he entered rehab for treatment for depression and suicidal thoughts. While he’s not as famous as ot...
HCII & ETC Student Game Brings Home Best Student Game and People's Choice Award
NEWSAlexandra To of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and Elaine Fath of the Entertainment Technology Institute (ETC) brought home two awards from the Meaningful Play Conference ...
100% Career Placement Every Year for METALS Graduates
NEWSThe Master of Educational Technology and Applied Learning Science degree is proud to announce that its most recent graduating cohort successfully reached 100% career placement, a statistic...
Rello Recieves 2016 New Researcher IDA Award
NEWSHCII postdoctoral fellow Luz Rello received the 2016 New Researcher Award during the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) Conference, held in Orlando, Fla., October 26-29, 2016. The fo...
HCII at UIST 2016
NEWSThe Human-Computer Interaction Institute had a strong showing at this year's ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST.) Researchers from the HCII represented nine acce...
VizLens –An Interactive Smartphone App for the Blind
NEWSThink about the number of electronic appliances you encounter on a daily basis – using a microwave, adjusting the thermostat in your home, or buying a snack from the office vending machine...
ViBand Wins Best Paper at UIST 2016
NEWSHuman-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. students Robert Xiao and Gierad Laput along with Assistant Professor Chris Harrison won a Best Paper for their smartwatch sensing project ViBand ...
Karen Holtzblatt on Women in Tech
NEWSWomen in Tech Discussion 6 October at 6:30 PM....
HCII Ph.D. Jennifer Olsen Recognized as Siebel Scholar
NEWSJennifer Olsen, a fifth year Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), will be joining five other Carnegie Mellon University students as a recipient of the 2017 Sie...
Twitch Plays Game Design: Audience Participation in Games
NEWSTo anyone who has played a family board game or turned on a video game with a group of friends in the basement, the idea of watching games can be as common as actually playing them. In som...
Guo Receives Honorable Mention at MobileHCI 2016
NEWSAnhong Guo, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), received an Honorable Mention at the 2016 MobileHCI conference in Florence, Italy. His paper, "Exploring Til...