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CMU Team Finishes Fourth at Facebook Global Hackathon Finals
NEWSA team of four Carnegie Mellon undergraduates spent 24 hours transforming an idea for a simulation game into reality at Facebook’s Global Hackathon Finals, which began Nov. 30 in Menlo Par...
Myers Among Four CMU Faculty Members Named IEEE Fellows
NEWSFour Carnegie Mellon University faculty members have been named 2013 Fellows of the Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical profession...
Cassell Named AAAS Fellow
NEWSJustine Cassell, the Charles M. Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of two...
Hudson And Colleagues Win First Place Best Demo Award at UIST
NEWSHCII Professor Scott Hudson, along with his Disney colleagues Karl D. D. Willis, Eric Brockmeyer, and Ivan Poupyrev, received the First Place Best Demo Award at the ACM Symposium on User I...
Rzeszotarski and Kittur Win A Best Paper Award at UIST
NEWSCongratulations to HCII PhD student Jeff Rzeszotarski and HCII Assistant Professor Aniket Kittur on their best paper award at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. T...
Two Carnegie Mellon Teams Get Nod To Compete in DARPA Robotics Challenge
NEWSRoboticists at Carnegie Mellon University will field two teams in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge, a competition in which robots will perform compl...
HCII Seminar Series with Speaker Alaina Hardie on Oct 24 Is Cancelled
NEWSThe HCII Seminar Series that was to be held on Wed, October 24, with speaker Alaina Hardie has been cancelled for personal reasons. We will plan to reschedule her visit for next semester....
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...