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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...
NSF Project Will Develop Architecture That Makes Internet Secure, Smart
NEWSResearchers at Carnegie Mellon University will lead a three-year, $7.1 million effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a next-generation network architecture t...
Carnegie Mellon Joins NSF Research Consortium to Develop Tools for Analyzing Autism, Other Behaviors
NEWSResearchers in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University will join a five-year, $10 million initiative funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create novel to...
Moira Burke and Bob Kraut Receive Journal of Small Group Research Best Paper Award
NEWSCongratulations to Moira Burke and Bob Kraut who received an award for the best article to be published in the Journal of Small Group Research in 2009 and 2010!...
Carnegie Mellon Hosting Conferences on Computer Tutors, Educational Data Mining
NEWSThe expanding role of computers in education and in educational research will be addressed by two back-to-back research conferences hosted by Carnegie Mellon University that will draw seve...