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EM-Sense Wins Fast Company Innovation by Design Award
NEWSEM-Sense, a technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research for automatically identifying an electrical or electromagnetic device that a person is touching, is the s...
Kraut Receives NSF Grant in Support of Online Communities
NEWSDespite the existence of successful online groups, the majority of newly created ones fail. They don’t survive, fail to attract enough digital users, or don’t meet goals their founders set...
METALS Capstone Sponsor, MARi, finalist in Reach Higher Learning Career App Challenge
NEWSIt's not everyday that a Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) capstone project brings you to the White House to present your work, but that's what happened for Masters of Educationa...
Decimal Point: Can Having Fun Increase Learning?
NEWSWhen it comes to learning math, how much fun you are having is rarely factored into the equation. That isn't to say that game designers have not tried to turn instruction into more engagin...
HCII Takes Home Best Paper Award at UMAP 2016
NEWSCan past learning activities predict differences in individual student success? A recent project with researchers from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) set out to answer jus...
The HCII Leads Discussion for Future Design Research Organization
NEWSHuman-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) faculty John Zimmerman joined scholars and professionals from across the United States and Canada for an April meeting discussing the possible n...
Hong Speaks on Safe and Secure Internet of Things
NEWSAssociate professor Jason Hong believes that we are currently living in the early stages of the third wave of computing. The first wave was about twenty years ago and was the basics of com...
Kim Explores the Next Frontier in AI Game Agents
NEWSWhen Google DeepMind's AlphaGo bot defeated the world's top Go player earlier this year, many wondered what the next challenge would be. After all, computers have now beaten the world's to...
HCII @ CHI: Technique Processes RFID Tag Signals With Speed Sufficient for Real-Time Interactivity
NEWSRadio-frequency identification (RFID) tags are designed primarily for inventory control, but researchers at Disney Research and the HCII have found a way to process the tag signals with su...
HCII @ CHI: Computer Guides Humans in Crowdsourced Research
NEWSGetting a bunch of people to collectively research and write a coherent report without any one person seeing the big picture may seem akin to a group of toddlers producing Hamlet by random...
HCII @ CHI: Making the Most of Your Facebook Friends
NEWSEveryone has that friend — the one who takes to Twitter or Facebook to ask their followers for advice on a new appliance, questions about logistics for an upcoming event, or even which mov...
CHI Preview: SkinTrack Technology Turns Arm Into Smartwatch Touchpad
NEWSSince the advent of smartwatches, technologists have been looking to expand interactions beyond the confines of the small watch face. A new wearable technology developed by HCII researcher...