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  • MHCI students standing in front of their Lantern poster at CHI.

    MHCI Team Takes Second Place in CHI Student Design Competition

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    A team of students in the Masters of Human Computer Interaction program took second place last week in the 13th annual CHI Student Design Competition....

  • This image shows the prototype before and after crowd workers update it.

    CHI2015: Apparition Harnesses the Crowd To Create Real-Time Prototyping

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    When 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...

  • A photo posted to Facebook with questions from a visually impaired user.

    CHI2015: Social Microvolunteering Uses Facebook to Do Good

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    Photos 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...

  • A doll made with Acoustruments technology responds when its stomach is poked.

    CHI Preview: Carnegie Mellon, Disney Researchers Develop Acoustically Driven Controls for Handheld Devices

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    As 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...

  • A small red bunny printed using layers of fabric.

    CHI Preview: HCII Researchers Unveil 3D Fabric Printing Technique

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    Mention 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...

  • Jodi Forlizzi with deliver they keynote address at Persuasive Technology 2015.

    Forlizzi To Deliver Keynote at Persuasive Tech 2015

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    HCII 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...

  • Scott Hudson

    SCS Rewards HCII Team for Research Excellence

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    Tinker 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...

  • Amy Shannon, Judy Oden Choi

    HCII Students Act Out in "Once Upon a Mattress"

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    The 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

    DataSquid Enters Into Partnership With Public Insight

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    HCII 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...

  • Justine Cassell

    Cassell Delivers Keynote at CyberLearning 2015

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    HCII 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,...

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    HCII Researchers Earn "Best of CHI" Awards

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    Carnegie 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...

  • Carolyn Rose

    Rose Delivers Keynotes in Atlanta, Munich

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    Associate Professor Carolyn Rosé is on the lecture circuit this semester. The keynote lecture circuit, that is....