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Tool Boosts Success of Online Collaborations By Redistributing the Burdens of Leadership
NEWSThe Web makes it possible for lots of people to collaborate on projects, but it doesn’t make it easy to lead them. A Carnegie Mellon University researcher has developed a new tool that hel...
Analysis Shows Online Songwriters Seek Collaborators With Complementary Skills, Status
NEWSA musical collaboration, be it Rodgers and Hammerstein or Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, requires a mix of shared and complementary traits that is not always obvious. Researchers at Carne...
Research Could Ensure That Crowd Work Becomes a Career Option, Not a Dead End
NEWSCrowdsourcing is an effective way to mobilize people to accomplish tasks on a global scale, but some researchers fear that crowd work for pay could easily become the high-tech equivalent o...
Did Your Smartphone Flashlight Rat You Out? Crowdsourcing Privacy Concerns of Mobile Apps
NEWSPeople are often surprised to learn that popular mobile applications on their smartphones are sharing their location, contact lists and other sensitive information, Carnegie Mellon Univers...
HCII Launches Master’s Program in Learning Science
NEWSA new one-year professional master’s program in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute will train graduates to apply evidence-based learning science research in re-examining the goals of...
Tiramisu App Wins FCC Chairman’s Award
NEWSThe Carnegie Mellon research team that created Tiramisu, a smartphone app that enables transit riders to create realtime information about bus schedules and seating, has won this year’s Fe...
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...