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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 ...
HCII Team Rocks Pretty Good Race
NEWSThe HCII trounced the competition in this year’s School of Computer Science Coach Tomayko Pretty Good Race, held Friday, Sept. 5. Now in its 34th year, the 5K run and race-walk is an SCS t...
Hammer, Harrison Among WEF Young Scientists
NEWSThe HCII's Jessica Hammer and Chris Harrison were among 30 exceptional young scientists under the age of 40 recognized at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions, Se...
Myers Among Authors of “Most Influential” Paper
NEWSFor the third year in a row, HCII Professor Brad Myers will be among the authors honored with the Most Influential Paper award from a decade ago at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages a...
Google Sponsors Research To Improve Effectiveness of Online Education
NEWSHCII faculty will play a large role in a new Google-sponsored initiative to unlock the educational potential of massive open online courses (MOOCs)....
Carnegie Mellon Creates Programming Library for Developing Interactive Web Pages in JavaScript
NEWSHuman-Computer Interaction Institute researchers have collaborated with Adobe Research to create a new open-source JavaScript library that makes it easier for developers to create interact...
Carnegie Mellon Names Anind Dey Director of Human-Computer Interaction Institute
NEWSRandal E. Bryant, dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, has appointed Anind K. Dey as the new Charles M. Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Ins...
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 ...