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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...
Transit App Earns Small Business Innovation Research Grant
NEWSA team of Carnegie Mellon researchers that includes HCII Associate Professor John Zimmerman has earned a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitat...
HCII Researchers Fabricate Hair With Inexpensive 3-D Printer
NEWS3-D printers typically produce hard plastic objects, but HCII researchers have found a way to produce hair-like strands, fibers and bristles using a common, low-cost printer. The technique...
Dow Receives Cyberlearning Grant
NEWSSteven Dow, an assistant professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, will receive a $449K grant for three years to design and develop a set of comp...
Cassell Explores Impact of Fourth Industrial Revolution at WEF Summit
NEWSThe Fourth Industrial Revolution is already upon us and Justine Cassell, associate vice provost for technology strategy and impact and HCII professor, joined other thought leaders to explo...