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Lomas’ Playpower Scores in McGinnis Venture Competition
NEWSPlaypower Labs, a company co-founded by Derek Lomas, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, was one of three compani...
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Carnegie Mellon Student Startup Places Payments at Users’ Fingertips
NEWSIt may take two to tango, but payments now are as easy as one touch.Four Carnegie Mellon University seniors tired of digging through backp...
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CMU’s Innovation City Celebrates HCII Students at SXSW
NEWSStudents of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute were among the Carnegie Mellon innovators and spin-off companies featured at Innovati...
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John Anderson Earns Highest APS Honor
NEWSCarnegie Mellon University’s John R. Anderson — whose human thought and cognition research has revolutionized how we learn — has been sele...
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Dow and Settles Investigate Songwriting Chemistry
NEWSA hit song is often the product of co-writers who have great chemistry. But the elements that make the chemistry great aren’t always appar...
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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 Unive...
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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 trait...
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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 ...
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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 ot...
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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 lear...
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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...
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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 ...