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Ringly Makes Jewelry Smart
NEWSNo one wants to be that person constantly looking at a smartphone to check for important text messages or updates. Or the one whose annoying ringtone interrupts a quiet lecture hall. But w...
Here's to Another 20 Years!
NEWSHCII Community Gathers to Celebrate Institute's 20th Anniversary The HCII threw open its doors and welcomed more than 275 of its nearest and dearest back to campus Nov. 14–16 to celebrate...
Rosé Leads CMU Efforts in $1.6 Million Digital Learning Research Network
NEWSAssociate Professor of LTI and HCII Carolyn Rosé will lead Carnegie Mellon's contributions to the new Digital Learning Research Network (dLRN), a collaboration of 10 institutions across th...
Harrison Named Packard Fellow
NEWSHCII Assistant Professor Chris Harrison joined 17 of the nation's most innovative early career scientists and engineers as a recipient of a 2014 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineer...
HCII Marks 20th Anniversary With Weekend Celebration
NEWSMore than 250 faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute will gather this weekend to celebrate the institute's 20th anniversary at HCII20. The...
Hong Leads Effort to Give Apps Privacy Grade
NEWSSmartphones wouldn't be so smart without their apps, yet many free apps pinpoint a user's location to deliver targeted ads or share contact lists with third parties without alerting the us...
MHCI Students Top HackNC
NEWSOne MHCI team won first place and another received an award at HackNC2014, a software and hardware hackathon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that challenged participants...
MHCI Team Takes Honors in CMU iOS App Challenge
NEWSEveryone’s been in that situation: You go out for a meal with friends or co-workers and chaos arrives with the check. Someone pays too little, someone forgets to include tax and tip. And y...
Kittur, Rzeszotarski Win First Prize at 3 Rivers Venture Fair
NEWSAssistant Professor Aniket Kittur and Ph.D. student Jeff Rzeszotarski won first prize at the 3 Rivers Venture Fair University Tech Showcase for their work on DataSquid, tangible data visua...
Decimal Game Helps Kids Get the Point
NEWSKids may not always want to do their math homework, but they can’t seem to put down video games like Minecraft or Angry Birds. A new project from researchers in Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Com...
Koedinger To Lead NSF-Funded LearnSphere Project
NEWSHCII Professor Ken Koedinger will lead a five-year, $5 million early implementation project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to improve educational outcomes and advance the sci...
New HCII Director Is Ready To Get Started
NEWSIn the early 1970s in a small town near Vancouver, a young Anind Dey wrote his first computer program on a Timex Sinclair computer under the watchful eye of his older brother. It was just ...