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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...
CMU Researchers Use Foursquare Check-in Data to Create Dynamic View of Cities
NEWSThe millions of “check-ins” generated by foursquare, the location-based social networking site, can be used to create a dynamic view of a city’s workings and character, C...
Vibrating Steering Wheel Guides Drivers While Keeping Their Eyes on the Road
NEWSA vibrating steering wheel is an effective way to keep a driver’s eyes safely on the road by providing an additional means to convey directions from a car’s navigation system, ...
Computerworld Honors HCII’s MILLEE Project
NEWSThe Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies, or MILLEE, project has been named a 2012 Laureate in the Computerworld Ho...
Eric Paulos Receives First Cooper-Siegel Professorship
NEWSFaculty members in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science (SCS) and College of Fine Arts (CFA) are the first recipients of a pair of professorships for junior facult...
Quarter of Tweets Not Worth Reading, HCII Researcher Reports
NEWSTwitter users choose the microblogs they follow, but that doesn’t mean they always like what they get. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
New iPad Programming Course Launched
NEWSDevices in hand, a group of students lucky enough to get into one of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s newest classes are already hard at work. They are learning the art of iPad p...
Charles Geschke Endows HCII Directorship
NEWSCharles M. Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc., and his wife, Nancy, have endowed the directorship of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) in Carnegie Mellon University’s ...