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  • Lining Yao stands in the Morphing Matter Lab holding a white shapeshifting flower

    HCII Faculty Yao and Zimmerman to Speak at SXSW2019

    Carnegie Mellon University students, faculty and alumni will be among the thousands descending onto Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest ...

  • Hong, Zhang, Kraut and Siewiorek stand side by side, smiling

    New Junior Professorships Honor Two Longtime HCII Faculty Members

    Jason Hong and His Wife, Shelley Zhang, Endow Two Junior Professorships The sale of Wombat Security Technologies to Proofpoint Inc. ...

  • Tom and Lydia Moran stand behind professors Jessica Hammer and Amy Ogan (seated)

    Hammer, Ogan Accept Moran Professorships

    Jessica Hammer and Amy Ogan, faculty members in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), received the inaugural Thomas and Lydia ...

  • Kiesler Elected to National Academy of Engineering

    Sara Kiesler, Hillman Chair Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has b...

  • a colorful lightbulb floats above a hand on a blue background

    Scaling Up Search for Analogies Could Be Key to Innovation

    AI, Crowdsourcing Can Identify Insights That Lead to Breakthroughs Investment in research is at an all-time high, yet the rate of scien...

  • black and white photo of 2 students and 2 alum on planning committee of Pittsburgh's Racial Justice Summit 2019

    CMU Joins Pittsburgh Community at Racial Justice Summit

    By Michael Henninger Kevin Jarbo used to take the bus from his apartment in the Hill District, one of Pittsburgh's predominantly black ...

  • side by side images: left image of a seated person hunched over a desk; right image a line drawing of the person with RFID sensor tags on spine

    RFID Tag Arrays Track Body Movements, Shape Changes

    Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found ways to track body movements and detect shape changes using arrays of radio-frequency i...

  • the four team members sit around a square table in the HCII lobby

    HCI students win Bose Challenge, Designing for Augmented Reality with Sound

    More than 100 Carnegie Mellon University students participated in an on-campus challenge last month, designing solutions for an emerging f...

  • three PhD students hold paper copies of the Computer Scientist issue of the XRDS magazine, standing in the HCII lobby

    PhD students contribute to Fall ACM XRDS issue on The Computer Scientist

    Four Ph.D. students from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute contributed to the Fall 2018 issue of XRDS (Crossroads), the ACM Magazin...

  • 2018 Summer Research Program Group Photo

    Human-Computer Interaction Institute Seeks Applicants for Summer Research Program

    Information on the upcoming year is available on the  2020 Summer Research Program website.    Application Dead...

  • four MHCI students facing left side of photo, working on large affinity diagram on the wall

    Inviting Clients for 2019 HCI Capstone Projects

    Sponsors Needed for Student Projects The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 20...

  • 2 pictures of MaryBeth Kery presenting  at VLHCC; 1 picture of MaryBeth and Brad Myers and receiving the best paper award

    Kery, Myers Win Best Paper at VL/HCC for Verdant Prototype

    Mary Beth Kery, PhD student, and Brad Myers, professor, won best paper at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computi...

  • team of hackthon student winners hold large check for $5000

    Hacking for the Kids at UPMC, HCII students on 1st and 4th place teams

    Almost 300 hackers gathered in the new Tepper Quad on October 5, many staying for 24 hours straight.   If the thought of this many h...

  • MHCI class of 2019 group cohort during Pro Sem class

    HCII Preparing for 24-Hour Charity Gaming Marathon

    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, som...

  • WGU and CMU Partner to Develop AI-Enabled Career Guidance Technology

    National Science Foundation awards universities $700,000 grant to kick off 3-year research project

  • sensors in the kitchen recognize the sound of someone chopping vegetables and displays "chopping" on laptop screen

    Sound, Vibration Recognition Boost Context-Aware Computing

    New methods help smart devices detect what’s happening around them Ubicoustics Smart devices can seem dumb if they don’t understand wher...

  • screencapture of the Wick Editor interface

    Student-Created Online Tool Wins $79K Grant from Mozilla

    Wick Editor, a free and open-source tool for creating games, animation and interactive media, is the winner of a $79,120 grant from the Mo...

  • looking of the left side of a plane in flight, view of the left wing flying over snowcapped mountains

    Zhang and Yao earn MFI award for 4D printing

  • square collage made of 4 images of projects: computer screen with dashboard, watch projecting image onto arm, an interactive wall, and emoto ai

    "Innovation by Design" Awards Recognize Several in HCII

    Several from Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute were honored by Fast Company in its annual Innovation ...

  • Ogan Named to World Economic Forum's Young Scientists 2018

    Amy Ogan, the Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named t...