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  • Amy Ogan, Chris Harrison, Justine Cassell

    Three HCII Faculty Members Among CMU's Davos Delegation

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    Carnegie Mellon is one of only 12 universities in the U.S. invited to the 2016  World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzer...

  • MLK Writing Awards

    MHCI Student Earns Second Place in MLK Writing Awards

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    MHCI student Charu Sharma is among 17 Pittsburgh-area high school and college students who will share their poetry and prose at Carnegie M...

  • Teaching using ITS dashboard

    Learning Science Grants to Advance Educational Technology Research

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    The Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University received two new grants to advance research in the area of i...

  • a Ph.D. student in computer science, uses a cognitive assistant that monitors his efforts at freehand sketching with a Google Glass and provides step-by-step advice.

    HCII Faculty Part of Team That Wins Four-Year, $2.8 Million NSF Grant

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    Siewiorek, Klatzky Will Connect People to Wearable Cognitive Assistance Two HCII faculty members are among a group of Carnegie Mellon res...

  • Amy Ogan

    Ogan Will Use NSF Grant To Study Intercultural Communication in the Classroom

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    International teaching assistants often struggle to find success in their teaching and research careers because of communication breakdown...

  • The ITS2015 Best Short Paper Award

    FIGLAB Wins Four Awards in One Week

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    The HCII's Future Interfaces Group (FIGLAB), led by Assistant Professor Chris Harrison, won four awards this past week for its research in...

  • Researchers use a repurposed bingo tray to kid-test a mathematical concept.

    HCIIers Part of CMU Team Competing for Global Learning XPRIZE

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    Can children learn to read, write and do basic arithmetic without a teacher or classroom, relying only on tablet computers, each other and...

  • Jeff Bigham, Luz Rello and Abdullah Ali at ASSETS

    CMU Researchers Earn Honors at ASSETS

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    Carnegie Mellon celebrated a strong showing last month at ASSETS 2015, where a team of researchers earned the Best Demonstration Award and...

  • The CMU/Maryland evoHaX team.

    HCIIers Take Second Place in Accessibility Hackathon

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    Three HCII Ph.D. students teamed up with peers from the University of Maryland to take second place in evoHaX SE last month. The hackathon...

  • EM-Sense technology identifies door.

    HCII, Disney Research Design System That Recognizes Objects Touched by User

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    A new technology developed by researchers in the HCII and Disney Research could enable smartwatches to automatically recognize what objec...

  • Anind Dey

    Dey Delivers Closing Keynote at ASC 2015 Fall Convention

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    HCII Director Anind Dey delivered the closing keynote address last month at the 2015 Adhesive and Sealant Fall Convention and Expo.

  • Niki Kittur and Bob Kraut

    Kittur, Kraut Earn NSF Grant to Study Analogical Innovation

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    Great innovations in science and technology often result from analogy. Someone may see a video online or read an article that inspires the...