In the Media
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MHCI Alumni Develop the Trance App, The Social Dancefloor
MHCI alumni Julien Altieri, Harper LaFave, Marwa Muhammad and Youna Yang designed and created the Trance App as a way for “letting dancer...
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PhD Student Will Odom’s Work on Digital Legacy Highlighted in ScienceNews
PhD student Will Odom’s work on digital legacy, and in particular digital legacy as it relates to bereavement in this technological age, i...
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Kinect plus projector makes anything a remote control
New Scientist featured WorldKit, a combination of depth cameras and projectors that enables computer interfaces to be created on almost an...
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“Self-Censorship on Facebook” Featured in The Atlantic, Mashable and Huffington Post
Sauvik Das’s internship work, “Self-Censorship on Facebook” has been gaining publicity.
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Analyzing Smartphone App Privacy
Many smartphone apps collect a great deal of personal information about individuals.
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Qeexo aims to make smartphone touchscreens even smarter
The Pittsburgh Business Times reported on Qeexo, a Carnegie Mellon spin-out co-founded by Human-Computer Interaction Institute graduate st...
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PayTango Featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus Blog
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog recently featured PayTango, the fingerprint-payment system created by four Carnegie ...
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Close Facebook Friends Are Effective in Finding New Jobs
Many users regard Facebook as a place to waste time and socialize with people to whom they have tenuous connections. But a new study sugge...
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Human-Robot Interaction Research Featured in IEEE Spectrum
Researchers at the HCII have been studying how the manner in which robots communicate affects human attitudes.
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NewScientist Interviews Kittur About Crowdsourcing
Writing in NewScientist, Hal Hodson suggests that crowdsourcing’s Wild West days of exploitation may soon be over. He reports on efforts t...
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How She Got There: Julia Schwarz
Hercampus.com has published a Q&A with Julia Schwarz, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, exploring how she b...
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Cassell Featured in World Economic Forum Video
Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, is among the faculty members representing Carnegie Mellon at the Wo...
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CBS Interviews Hong About Smartphone Snoops
Jason Hong, associate professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, was featured on CBS This Morning in a Dec. 26 segment about t...
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Harrison Is An “Innovator to Watch” in 2013
Smithsonian magazine has named Chris Harrison, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, as one of “Six Innovators to W...
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Business Insider Ranks HCII 9th Among Design Schools
BusinessInsider.com ranks Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute 9th on its list of the world’s bes...
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Alum Featured on Bravo’s “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley”
When David Murray was an undergrad at Carnegie Mellon, his friends used to kid him that he’d never find a job that combined all three of h...
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Sensors Embedded in Everyday Life Might Spot Dementia Early
Anind Dey, associate professor of HCII, presented his dwellSense project on Oct. 16 at the Wired Health Conference in New York City. ...
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Gadgets That Know Who You Are, Just By Touch
HCII PhD student Chris Harrison, working with colleagues at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, has helped develop a technique called capacitive ...
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Newsmaker: Justine Cassell
HCII Director Justine Cassell was the featured “Newsmaker” Sept. 8 in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The column noted Cassell is the Charl...
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Chris Harrison Named to TR35 List of Young Innovators
MIT’s Technology Review has named Chris Harrison to its annual TR35 list of innovators under the age of 35. He and the rest of the 2012 ho...
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Touché Technology Detects How You Touch
Gizmag, along with Wired, TechCrunch and other media outlets, has a feature on Touché, a new touch-sensing technology developed at ...
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Using Foursquare Data to Redefine a Neighborhood
Technology Review took early notice of Livehoods, a project undertaken by Jason Hong, associate professor of HCII; Raz Schwartz, a visitin...
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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
Moira Burke, a PhD alum of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and now a researcher at Facebook, is quoted regarding her research on ...
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Cassell Posts on World Economic Forum Blog
In a World Economic Forum blog entry, HCII Director Justine Cassell says technological innovations won’t reach their potential for solving...
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Forbes Names Harrison to “30 Under 30” List
HCII PhD student Chris Harrison was listed by Forbes magazine in its “30 Under 30” special report on tomorrow’s brightes...
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Return of the Human Computers
The Economist traces the history of human computation back to 1937 and discusses how the technique is on the rise once again. It highlight...
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Death to Keyboards & Monitors
Chris Harrison, HCII PhD student, and the OmniTouch technology he developed with Microsoft Research and Scott Hudson, professor of HCII, w...
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Tap Sensor Takes Touch to the Next Level
TapSense, a technology developed by HCII PhD students Chris Harrison and Julia Schwarz and HCII Professor Scott Hudson, was the lead story...
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CMU and Microsoft Researchers Turn Any Surface into a Touchscreen
TechCrunch was among the first of hundreds of news outlets to highlight the work of Chris Harrison, Scott Hudson and colleagues at Microso...
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