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Carnegie Mellon, Temple Researchers Offer Fresh Perspective To Improve Learning by Taming Instructional Complexity
NEWSFrom using concrete or abstract materials to giving immediate or delayed feedback, there are rampant debates over the best teaching strategies to use. But, in reality, improving education ...
Dow and André Received HCOMP Notable Paper Award
NEWSA paper by Steven Dow, assistant professor of HCII, and former HCII postdoc Paul André, “Community Clustering: Leveraging an Academic Crowd to Form Coherent Conference Sessions,” received ...
Bigham Named Sloan Research Fellow
NEWSThe Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named HCII Assistant Professor Jeffrey Bigham a a winner of a 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship....
Carnegie Mellon-Disney Motion Tracking Technology Is Precise, Inexpensive, Fast
NEWSResearchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research Pittsburgh have devised a motion tracking technology that could eliminate much of the annoying lag that occurs in existing vid...
HCII Alums Boost CMU Hackathon Performance
NEWSThree alumni of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s Masters Program — Min Zhao, Diana Chen and Asim Mittal — helped Carnegie Mellon University teams dominate the competition at the ...
Hong Named PopTech Fellow
NEWSPopTech, a global social innovation incubator and thought leadership network, has named Jason Hong, associate professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, as one of 11 PopTech Sc...
Cassell Assumes Associate Vice Provost Responsibilities
NEWSJustine Cassell, the Charles M. Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and co-director of The Simon Initiative, has taken on additional responsibilities as the uni...
Das, Laput Advance to Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finals
NEWSHCII Ph.D. students Sauvik Das and Gierad Laput advanced to the finals of the 2014 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) for their proposal "Everyday Objects for Physical Space Authenticat...
Klatzky Earns Charles J. Queenan Professorship of Psychology
NEWSRoberta Klatzky, professor of psychology with an appointment in the HCII, will receive the Charles J. Queenan Professorship of Psychology on Wednesday, Feb. 5, in recognition of her outsta...
Forlizzi Named to CHI Academy
NEWSJodi Forlizzi, associate professor of human-computer interaction and design, has been named to the CHI Academy — an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to...
HCII Ph.D. Students Win Best Paper Award at UbiComp
NEWSPhD students Sauvik Das and Eiji Hayashi, along with their advisor Jason Hong, won a best paper award at the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (...
Myers Once Again Wins “Most Influential” Award
NEWSBrad A. Myers, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will be honored for the second year in a row as the author of a Most Influential Paper at the IEEE Symposium on Visual...