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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...
HCII, Heinz Researchers Win SOUPS Privacy Award
NEWSChances are you use the Internet nearly every day. But what do you really know about how the Internet works? And how does that knowledge affect your decisions about privacy and security? A...
HCII Team Earns Honorable Mention in Best Paper Competition
NEWSA team of HCII researchers received an Honorable Mention award in the National Security Agency's (NSA) Third Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition, which recognized the be...
Hammer Earns Okawa Foundation Research Grant
NEWSHCII Assistant Professor Jessica Hammer has received a 2015 Okawa Foundation Research Grant to support her research, "Games for Impact: A Full Pipeline Approach."...
LearnLab Summer School Provides Hands-On Learning Experience
NEWSWhen Bill Buttlar, a professor and associate dean in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's (UIUC) College of Engineering, and his colleagues were charged with revamping their gr...