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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...
Study Shows Game Design Can Reduce Stereotypes, Social Biases
NEWSHCII Assistant Professor Geoff Kaufman, who joined the department this semester from Dartmouth's Tiltfactor Lab, is making headlines for a study that demonstrates how games can have a posi...
Louw Receives NSF Grant for Citizen Science
NEWSLearning Media Design Center Director and HCII faculty member Marti Louw will receive a three-year, $1.7 million National Science Foundation award to develop and study a cyberlearning tool...
Forlizzi to Deliver Keynote at DeSForM 2015
NEWSJodi Forlizzi, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, will be one of the keynote speakers at the 9th Internal Conf...
Ogan Helps State Department Improve English Education
NEWSHelping people learn American English is an integral part of U.S. public diplomacy, and HCII Assistant Professor Amy Ogan is part of a new working group that will help the U.S. Department ...
Human-Computer Interaction Institute T-Shirt Competition
NEWSIn the last week of August, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University welcomes the newest students into the Ph.D., Master in Human-Computer Interaction ...
Rzeszotarski Named Siebel Scholar
NEWSHCII Ph.D. student Jeff Rzeszotarski has been named a 2016 Siebel Scholar for his outstanding academic achievement and demonstrated leadership. The program recognizes the most talented stu...
Faculty Featured on "Encounters With HCI Pioneers"
NEWSThree HCII faculty members are included in "Encounters With HCI Pioneers," a new website that aims to draw attention to human-computer interaction trailblazers by describing their backgrou...
Study Shows Information Is Easier To Learn When Composed of Familiar Elements
NEWSPeople have more difficulty recalling the string of letters BIC, IAJ, FKI, RSU and SAF than FBI, CIA, JFK, IRS and USA. The well-established reason is that the amount of information we can...