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HCII Researchers Develop New Approaches to Smartwatches
NEWSCarnegie Mellon University's Future Interfaces Group is exploring wearable technologies to make information and communication even more accessible. One of those is a smart watch that allow...
Researchers Find Real-Time Information From Drug-Monitoring Systems Improves Regimen Adherence
NEWSMost people want to take medications as prescribed, even if they sometimes need a little help remembering. According to HCII researchers, an automated system that monitors drug taking and ...
CMU@CHI: CMU-Disney Researcher Invents 3D Printing Technique for Making Soft, Cuddly Stuff
NEWSSoft and cuddly aren’t words used to describe the plastic or metal things typically produced by today’s 3D printers. But a new type of printer developed by Carnegie Mellon and Disney Resea...
Das, Laput Win 2014 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
NEWSHCII PhD students Sauvik Das and Gierad Laput were one of nine teams to win the 2014 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QinF) for their proposal "Everyday Objects for Physical Space Authentic...
CMU@CHI: HCII, Microsoft Research Explore Slow Technology
NEWSStoring and instantly accessing thousands of photos online has become a common luxury, but sometimes the sheer size of these photo archives can be intimidating. Researchers from the HCII a...
CMU@CHI: Kinetica Converts Tabular Data Into Touch-Friendly Format
NEWSSpreadsheets may have been the original killer app for personal computers, but data tables don’t play to the strengths of multi-touch devices like tablets. So HCII researchers developed a ...
Mankoff Co-Authors Chronic Lyme Disease Study
NEWSChronic Lyme disease is associated with a poorer quality of life than most other chronic illnesses, according to a new comprehensive patient survey by LymeDisease.org and HCII Associate Pr...
Cassell, Koedinger Featured at World Economic Forum
NEWSCharles M. Geschke Director of the HCII Justine Cassell and HCII Professor Ken Koedinger gave presentations at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this past Ja...
CMU Plans Strong Showing at CHI2014
NEWSWatch out, Toronto — Carnegie Mellon is on its way. More than 50 CMU faculty members, graduate students and researchers are on the program for CHI2014, the Association for Computing Machin...
HCII Research Cited in WEF’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies List
NEWSThe World Economic Forum has released its 2014 list of the Top 10 Emerging Technologies, and it cites the HCII’s pioneering research in one of those technologies — the quantified self....
Carnegie Mellon Leads Multi-University Project To Improve Web and Cloud Computing Accessibility
NEWSThe U.S. Department of Education is sponsoring a five-year, $3.7 million project led by Carnegie Mellon University to develop methods that enable people with disabilities to take full adva...