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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 ...
HCII Is Hiring Tenure-Track Faculty
NEWSThe Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University seeks faculty candidates with a strong track record in research, outstanding academic credentials, and an earned Ph.D...
Redesign the HCII Website! $1,300 in Prizes
NEWSWhat: Challenge to redesign the HCII websiteDue: February 15, 2012Prizes: $1,000 first prize and $300 second prizeThe Human-Computer Interaction Institute website is showing its age and ne...
New HCII Social Space Dedicated As the Kiesler-Kraut Commons
NEWSOn December 2, 2011 a group of appreciative students and colleagues gathered to dedicate the new HCII Social Space as the Kiesler-Kraut Commons in thanks to Sara Kiesler and Robert Kraut f...
Kraut Named ACM Fellow
NEWSRobert Kraut, the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, is among 46 leading computer scientists and one of two School of Computer Science faculty members named 2011 Fel...