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Justine Cassell Named HCII Director
NEWSRandal E. Bryant, dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has announced the appointment of Justine Cassell as the new director of the school’s Human-Computer Inter...
Carnegie Mellon to Test Ability of Embedded Sensors to Detect Onset of Dementia, Infirmity
NEWSCarnegie Mellon University researchers in the Quality of Life Technology Center (QoLTC) will embed wireless sensors in the residences of about 50 older adults who live alone to see if they...
Jason Hong Wins Sloan Fellowship
NEWSHCII Associate Professor Jason Hong has been announced as one of the 2010 Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellows. The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-c...
Aruna Balakrishnan Receives Two IBM Fellowships
NEWSHCII PhD student Aruna Balakrishnan received the IBM PhD fellowship and the IBM Fran Allen Fellowship given to just one of the IBM fellowship recipients each year. Established in 2007, the...
Chris Harrison Receives Microsoft Fellowship
NEWSHCII PhD student Chris Harrison was one of the recipients of the highly competitive 2010 Microsoft fellowships. There were 176 nominations for these fellowships worldwide, and only 10 were...
HCII Students Invited to CNBC’s Meeting of the Minds
NEWSOn Monday, November 30, you are invited to attend a free taping on campus of the CNBC special program, Meeting of the Minds. The program will feature leading manufacturing executives and C...
Carnegie Mellon Expands Mobile Learning Project in India
NEWSPITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University today announced the expansion of its Mobile & Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies (MILLEE) project, which will gauge the e...
Team Wins First Place at UIST 2009 Student Innovation Competition
NEWSJulia Schwarz, a first year HCII PhD student, took First Place in the Most Creative category at this year’s ACM UIST Student Innovation Contest. She was assisted by Brian Lim, Stephen Oney...
HCII PhD Students Nab Two Top Awards at Yahoo’s Open Hack Day in New York City
NEWSJulia Schwarz, Bryan Pendleton, and Chris Harrison hacked together two entries in the 24-hour development period. The team was flown out to the New York City to participate in OpenHackNYC ...
Noboru Matsuda and Ken Koedinger Receive $1.9 Million Grant from DoED and NSF
NEWSHCII faculty members Noboru Matsuda and Ken Koedinger (with William Cohen at MLD and Gabriel Stylianides at Pitt) received new grants from the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. D...
Bruce McLaren Receives $1.3 Million Department of Education Grant
NEWSHCII faculty member Bruce McLaren received a new grant from the U.S. Department of Education IES program (Institute of Education Science), entitled “AdaptErrEx: Exploring the Learning Bene...