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PhD Student Jason Wiese Wins a Yahoo! 2011 Key Scientific Challenges Program Award
NEWSBig congratulations to PhD student Jason Wiese, who has just won a Yahoo! 2011 Key Scientific Challenges Program Award. Jason won for his work on Internet Experience. He is the 3rd HCII st...
Carnegie Mellon Develops iPhone App That Predicts When Bus Will Arrive
NEWSEverybody who waits at a bus stop wants to know one thing: Where’s the bus? Thanks to Tiramisu, a new iPhone application developed at Carnegie Mellon University, transit riders in Pittsbur...
Symposium Explores How Computer Programs Can Be Made Easier to Write and Understand
NEWSComputers may be a common part of modern life and work, but the languages and methods used to program those computers continue to confound most people. Researchers who are developing ways ...
Virtual Possessions Have Powerful Hold on Teenagers
NEWSDigital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, email threads and other immaterial artifacts of today’s online world may be as precious to teenagers as a favorite book t...
Myers Receives Microsoft Research SEIF Award
NEWSBrad A. Myers, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, is one of 10 recipients chosen by Microsoft Research for its 2011 Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) Aw...
Cassell Featured in Technology Town Hall Meeting
NEWSJustine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will join experts from the news media and industry to discuss how technology is transforming our culture during a Pit...
HCII’s Lomas Wins National Prize for “Numbaland!” Game
NEWS“Numbaland!,” a collection of math games developed by Human-Computer Interaction Institute PhD student Derek Lomas and two colleagues, won the Collegiate and Impact prizes in the first Nat...
Crowd Workers Are Not Online Shakespeares, But HCII Researchers Show They Can Write
NEWSWriting can be a solitary, intellectual pursuit, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that the task of writing an informational article also can be accomplished by doze...
Justine Cassell Joins Panel to Discuss Brain and Behavior
NEWSJustine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will be part of a campus panel discussion on how interdisciplinary collaboration is shaping the future of brain resea...
Derek Lomas - NumberPower: Challenge Grand Prize Winner
NEWSDerek Lomas, a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, won the $50,000 grand prize in the $100K Challenge, a competition sponsored by Marvell Technology Group to inspire a...
CMU to Host Automotive User Interfaces Conference
NEWSAnind K. Dey, Associate Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Institute, and CMU welcome the 2nd International Automotive User Interfaces Conference being held November 11&ndas...
Culturally Inspired Mobile Phone Games Help Chinese Children Learn Language Characters
NEWSMobile phone-based games could provide a new way to teach basic knowledge of Chinese language characters that might be particularly helpful in underdeveloped rural areas of China, say rese...