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Dey Speaks at Wired Health Conference
NEWSAnind Dey, associate professor in HCII, will speak about dwellSense, his project to develop in-home sensors that can detect the onset of dementia or physical decline in adults who live alo...
HCII Paper of 2002 Named “Most Influential”
NEWSThe IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing has recognized a 2002 paper on usable programming systems co-authored by Brad A. Myers, professor in the Human-Computer I...
HCII Students Named Seibel Scholars
NEWSTwo Ph.D. candidates in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute—Min Kyung Lee and Martina Rau—are among five Carnegie Mellon University graduate students named 2013 Seibel Scholars by the...
Cassell to Formally Receive Geschke Directorship
NEWSJustine Cassell will formally receive her appointment as the Charles M. Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) during a Sept. 10 ceremony at Carnegie Mellon Un...
Technology Review Names Chris Harrison to TR35 List of Top Innovators
NEWSChris Harrison, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) who develops new ways for people to interact with digital devices, particu...
Koedinger to Deliver APA Keynote Address
NEWSKen Koedinger, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and director of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, will present the keynote address, “Bridging the Gap Between ...
HCII PhD Students Win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
NEWSThe team of Robert Xiao and Chris Harrison, both PhD students in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, was one of eight U.S. groups selected to receive 2012 Qualcomm Innovation Fellows...
NRC Report Says Computing Advances Vital to Sustainability Efforts
NEWSInnovation in computing will be essential to finding real-world solutions to sustainability challenges in such areas as electricity production and delivery, global food production, and cli...
Livehoods Wins Best Paper Award at ICWSM 2012
NEWSWork by Justin Cranshaw (ISR), Raz Schwartz (visiting scholar), Jason Hong (HCII), and Norman Sadeh (ISR) recently won the best paper award at The 6th International Conference on Weblogs a...
Revolutionary Technology Enables Objects to Know How They Are Being Touched
NEWSA doorknob that knows whether to lock or unlock based on how it is grasped, a smartphone that silences itself if the user holds a finger to her lips and a chair that adjusts room lighting ...
Picking the Brains of Strangers Improves Efforts to Make Sense of Online Information
NEWSPeople who have already sifted through online information to make sense of a subject can help strangers facing similar tasks without ever directly communicating with them, researchers at C...
Book Draws Lessons from Social Science to Guide Creation of Online Communities
NEWSOnline communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but attempts to create social networking sites often meet with failure. In a new book, Carnegie Mellon Universit...