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Kiesler Elected to National Academy of Engineering
February 7, 2019
Sara Kiesler, Hillman Chair Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been elected to the
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Scaling Up Search for Analogies Could Be Key to Innovation
February 4, 2019
AI, Crowdsourcing Can Identify Insights That Lead to Breakthroughs
... Read moreInvestment in research is at an all-time high, yet the rate of scientific
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CMU Joins Pittsburgh Community at Racial Justice Summit
January 24, 2019
By mhenninger [at] cmu.edu (Michael Henninger)
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RFID Tag Arrays Track Body Movements, Shape Changes
December 18, 2018
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found ways to track body movements and detect shape changes using arrays of radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. RFID-embedded clothing thus could be used to control avatars
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HCI students win Bose Challenge, Designing for Augmented Reality with Sound
December 6, 2018
More than 100 Carnegie Mellon University students participated in an on-campus challenge last month, designing solutions for an emerging field so new that the technology, a pair of Bose augmented ... Read more
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PhD students contribute to Fall ACM XRDS issue on The Computer Scientist
November 21, 2018
Four Ph.D. students from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute contributed to the Fall 2018 issue of XRDS (Crossroads), the ACM Magazine by students for students. XRDS is a quarterly ... Read more
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Human-Computer Interaction Institute Seeks Applicants for Summer Research Program
November 15, 2018
Application Deadline Is January 15, 2019
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Inviting Clients for 2019 HCI Capstone Projects
October 26, 2018
Sponsors Needed for Student Projects
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 2019 projects. ... Read more
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Kery, Myers Win Best Paper at VL/HCC for Verdant Prototype
October 22, 2018
Mary Beth Kery, PhD student, and Brad Myers, professor, won best paper at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) in Lisbon, ... Read more
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Hacking for the Kids at UPMC, HCII students on 1st and 4th place teams
October 19, 2018
Almost 300 hackers gathered in the new Tepper Quad on October 5, many staying for 24 hours straight.
If the thought of this many hackers on campus made you clutch your credit cards a little bit tighter, don’t worry. These hackers weren’t the hoodie- ... Read more
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HCII Preparing for 24-Hour Charity Gaming Marathon
October 18, 2018
CMU Extra Life team to game for good again in 2018
From 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 10, until 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 11, someone from the Carnegie Mellon Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) will be awake and playing a game at ... Read more
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Sound, Vibration Recognition Boost Context-Aware Computing
October 16, 2018
New methods help smart devices detect what’s happening around them
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Smart devices can seem dumb if they don’t understand where they are or what people around them are doing. Carnegie Mellon ... Read more
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"Innovation by Design" Awards Recognize Several in HCII
October 10, 2018
Several from Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute were honored by Fast Company in its annual ... Read more
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Ogan Named to World Economic Forum's Young Scientists 2018
September 19, 2018
Amy Ogan, the Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named to the ... Read more
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Three from HCII named 2018-19 Innovation Fellows
September 10, 2018
Carnegie Mellon University’s Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship has named Anhong Guo, Ph.D. candidate, Gierad Laput, Ph.D. candidate, and ... Read more
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Actuation Gives New Dimensions to an Old Material
August 22, 2018
One of the oldest, most versatile and inexpensive of materials — paper — seemingly springs to life, bending, folding or flattening itself, by means of a low-cost actuation technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
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BHCI Alumnae Returns to Sponsor Capstone
August 3, 2018
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Several from HCII Involved with 2018 Educational Data Mining Conference
August 2, 2018
From speaking to event planning, three members of the Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Institute contributed to the 11th annual ... Read more
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HCII PhD Students Return from London Festival of Learning with 3 Awards
July 10, 2018
Many experts from the learning sciences and educational technologies communities gathered at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Education in London last week for not one but three ... Read more
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HCII Hosts Event for Bay Area Alumni
June 22, 2018
Less than 48 hours after going online, the tickets were gone.
The tickets -- not for a concert, Broadway show or cross-town rivalry sporting event -- were for our Human-Computer ... Read more
