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Louw Wins IxDA Interaction Award for Engagement
NEWSMarti Louw, HCII faculty member and director of the Learning Media Design Center, took home the Best in Category award for "Engaging" at Interaction15, an initiative of the Interaction Des...
Medical Price Matters … It Pratters
NEWSForlizzi's Startup Allows Consumers to Compare Medical Costs When it's time to buy a new appliance, like a stove, few consumers just rush headlong into the purchase. They check multiple r...
Researchers Offer Insight Into How Brain Understands Data Gathered From Fingers
NEWSWhat if the touchscreen of your smartphone or tablet could touch you back? Roberta Klatzky, the Charles J. Queenan Jr. Professor of Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Me...
CHI Preview: CMU Leads All Institutions in Accepted Papers
NEWSIt's still two months away, but Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute is already anticipating a strong showing at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) CHI2015 c...
HCII Team Named Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalists
NEWSHCII Ph.D. students Xiang Anthony Chen and Adrian de Freitas have been named finalists for the 2015-2016 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for their project "Snap-To-It: Using Mobile Cameras ...
HCII Director Elected to CHI Academy
NEWSDey Is Institute's Eighth Academy Member HCII Director and Associate Professor Anind Dey has been elected to the CHI Academy — an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial c...
Dow To Explore Collective Innovation Through NSF CAREER Award
NEWSToday's big problems — becoming more energy independent or caring for an aging population — can't be solved in a vacuum. And while the Internet makes it easy to find and engage large group...
Anderson To Attend White House Workshop
NEWSJohn R. Anderson, the Richard King Mellon University Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, will participate in the White House Workshop on Bridging Neuroscience ...
Schwarz Named to Forbes "30 Under 30"
NEWSHCII Ph.D. student Julia Schwarz has been named to Forbes' "30 Under 30 in 2015 Science" list, which recognizes the movers and shakers who are doing everything from bringing physics to med...
HCII Celebrates Tiniest New Member
NEWSThe HCII and Entertainment Technology Center's students, faculty and staff gathered recently to mark the impending arrival of the departments' newest — and youngest — member. Assistant Pro...
Hong Receives HCII Career Development Fellowship
NEWSHCII Associate Professor Jason Hong has been awarded the HCII Career Development Fellowship for his research accomplishments and contributions to both the HCII and the university....
Think Outside the Box? Not So Fast.
NEWSTraditional thinking holds that great design concepts stem from sources distant from the original problem. Velcro, for example, came into being when civil engineer George de Mestral had to...