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    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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Guo, Laput and Taylor, the 3 Innovation Fellows from the HCII, stand side by side in the lab

    Three from HCII named 2018-19 Innovation Fellows

    Carnegie Mellon University’s Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship has named Anhong Guo, Ph.D. candidate, Gierad Laput, Ph.D.

  • charts within the Sonify application as pictured on an iPhone screen in landscape position

    Prototyping Next-Generation Accessibility Tools with Bloomberg

    Over the last two years, Bloomberg’s UX team has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University Master of Human-Computer Interaction program an...

  • white paper actuators in front of black background

    Actuation Gives New Dimensions to an Old Material

    One of the oldest, most versatile and inexpensive of materials — paper — seemingly springs to life, bending, folding or flattening itself,...

  • SXSW 2019 panelpicker image

    Vote CMU in SXSW PanelPicker

    Each year, #CMUatSXSW shows Austin and the world how the work happening at Carnegie Mellon University is shaping the future.

  • 5 BHCI student members of Resy capstone team

    BHCI Alumnae Returns to Sponsor Capstone

    Aesha Shah had been working at the startup Resy for about a year, so the timing seemed right when she saw Professor Bob Kraut’s email seek...

  • Ken Koedinger speaks at the Educational Data Mining Conference 2018

    Several from HCII Involved with 2018 Educational Data Mining Conference

    From speaking to event planning, three members of the Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Institute contributed to the 1...

  • PhD students Madaio and Holstein with their awards at London Festival of Learning

    HCII PhD Students Return from London Festival of Learning with 3 Awards

    Many experts from the learning sciences and educational technologies communities gathered at the University College London (UCL) Institute...