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MHCI Team Takes Second Place in CHI Student Design Competition
NEWSA team of students in the Masters of Human Computer Interaction program took second place last week in the 13th annual CHI Student Design Competition....
CHI2015: Apparition Harnesses the Crowd To Create Real-Time Prototyping
NEWSWhen designing anything — a new video game or the next-big-thing smartphone app — prototyping is key. It allows designers to quickly iterate and gather feedback, but the time it takes to c...
CHI2015: Social Microvolunteering Uses Facebook to Do Good
NEWSPhotos of food. Check-ins at the gym. Political rants and memes prominently featuring cats. They fill up newsfeeds on social media, to the extent that the good social media can do is often...
CHI Preview: Carnegie Mellon, Disney Researchers Develop Acoustically Driven Controls for Handheld Devices
NEWSAs people find ever more inventive uses for smartphones, touchscreens sometimes fall short as control surfaces. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research have develope...
CHI Preview: HCII Researchers Unveil 3D Fabric Printing Technique
NEWSMention 3D printing, and most people will conjure up images of rough plastic items with hard surfaces and sharp angles. Warm and fuzzy doesn't often enter into the picture. But a team of r...
Forlizzi To Deliver Keynote at Persuasive Tech 2015
NEWSHCII Professor Jodi Forlizzi will deliver the keynote address at Persuasive Technology 2015. Now in its 10th year, Persuasive Tech focuses on sharing the results of science-based inquiries...
SCS Rewards HCII Team for Research Excellence
NEWSTinker Toys line the shelves of HCII Professor Scott Hudson's office, joined by electronic gadgets and gizmos of all kinds. A few felt teddy bears created on a 3D printer hang out on a cou...
HCII Students Act Out in "Once Upon a Mattress"
NEWSThe HCII's Amy Shannon (left) tread the boards as Queen Aggravain and first-year Ph.D. student Judy Oden Choi (right) helped produce the show when a group of School of Computer Science stu...
DataSquid Enters Into Partnership With Public Insight
NEWSHCII startup DataSquid Inc has entered into a partnership with Public Insight, a benchmarking platform that maximizes the utility of public data for regional discovery, competitive intelli...
Cassell Delivers Keynote at CyberLearning 2015
NEWSHCII Professor and Associate Vice-Provost for Technology Strategy and Impact Justine Cassell delivered a keynote address at CyberLearning 2015: Connect, Collaborate, and Create the Future,...
HCII Researchers Earn "Best of CHI" Awards
NEWSCarnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute earned a total of seven awards when the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) CHI2015 conference announced its "Best of CHI" wi...
Rose Delivers Keynotes in Atlanta, Munich
NEWSAssociate Professor Carolyn Rosé is on the lecture circuit this semester. The keynote lecture circuit, that is....