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Three HCII Faculty Members Among CMU's Davos Delegation
NEWSCarnegie Mellon is one of only 12 universities in the U.S. invited to the 2016 World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and three HCII faculty members are among the univ...
MHCI Student Earns Second Place in MLK Writing Awards
NEWSMHCI student Charu Sharma is among 17 Pittsburgh-area high school and college students who will share their poetry and prose at Carnegie Mellon University's 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Wri...
Learning Science Grants to Advance Educational Technology Research
NEWSThe Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University received two new grants to advance research in the area of intelligent tutoring. The use of intelligent tutori...
HCII Faculty Part of Team That Wins Four-Year, $2.8 Million NSF Grant
NEWSSiewiorek, Klatzky Will Connect People to Wearable Cognitive Assistance Two HCII faculty members are among a group of Carnegie Mellon researchers to receive a four-year, $2.8 million Nati...
Ogan Will Use NSF Grant To Study Intercultural Communication in the Classroom
NEWSInternational teaching assistants often struggle to find success in their teaching and research careers because of communication breakdowns in the classroom. Reducing such breakdowns would...
FIGLAB Wins Four Awards in One Week
NEWSThe HCII's Future Interfaces Group (FIGLAB), led by Assistant Professor Chris Harrison, won four awards this past week for its research into sensing and interface technologies that make in...
HCIIers Part of CMU Team Competing for Global Learning XPRIZE
NEWSCan children learn to read, write and do basic arithmetic without a teacher or classroom, relying only on tablet computers, each other and some intelligent software? A team of Carnegie Mel...
CMU Researchers Earn Honors at ASSETS
NEWSCarnegie Mellon celebrated a strong showing last month at ASSETS 2015, where a team of researchers earned the Best Demonstration Award and a student took third place in the Student Researc...
HCIIers Take Second Place in Accessibility Hackathon
NEWSThree HCII Ph.D. students teamed up with peers from the University of Maryland to take second place in evoHaX SE last month. The hackathon, which focused on building wearable accessible te...
HCII, Disney Research Design System That Recognizes Objects Touched by User
NEWSA new technology developed by researchers in the HCII and Disney Research could enable smartwatches to automatically recognize what objects users are touching — for instance, whether the ...
Dey Delivers Closing Keynote at ASC 2015 Fall Convention
NEWSHCII Director Anind Dey delivered the closing keynote address last month at the 2015 Adhesive and Sealant Fall Convention and Expo. Held in Pittsburgh, the three-day event featured several...
Kittur, Kraut Earn NSF Grant to Study Analogical Innovation
NEWSGreat innovations in science and technology often result from analogy. Someone may see a video online or read an article that inspires them to create the Next Big Thing — like the mechanic...