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HCII Hosts Event for Bay Area Alumni
Less than 48 hours after going online, the tickets were gone. The tickets -- not for a concert, Broadway show or cross-town rivalry sport...
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Four from HCII Receive Google Faculty Research Awards
Selected from more than one thousand proposals, four faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2017 Goog...
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Zhou is Fulbright Winner
Louise Zhou, who graduated last year with a double major in business administration and human-computer interaction, is one of five Carnegi...
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Hammer Receives 2018 Teaching Innovation Award
Jessica Hammer, assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) an...
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Q&A with Greg Coticchia
Greg Coticchia, the executive director of Carnegie Mellon University’s new Master of Science in Product Management program, recently discu...
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Bento Browser Makes It Easier To Search On Mobile Devices
Searches involving multiple websites can quickly get confusing, particularly when performed on a mobile device with a small screen. A new ...
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Thermorph: Flat Materials Self-Fold When Heated
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used an inexpensive 3-D printer to produce flat plastic items that, when heated, fold thems...
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Understanding The Cybersecurity Grapevine
Social Networks Are Sources Of Security Tips When people get word of an online data breach, men are far more likely to share that n...
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HCII at CHI 2018
Over 3,000 of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to Montréal this week for CHI 2018, the ACM CHI Confer...
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Paint Job Transforms Walls Into Sensors, Interactive Surfaces
Smart Walls React to Human Touch, Sense Activity in Room Walls are what they are — big, dull dividers. With a few applications of conduct...
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Digital Exhibit Labels: Enhancement or Distraction for Museum Visitors
Does a touchscreen display distract visitors from the cultural museum artifacts it supports? A team of learning scientists and computer ...
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Sara Kiesler Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Sara Kiesler, Hillman Chair Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has be...
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PhD and Postdoc Win Gold Awards at Reimagine Education Competition
Using mixed-reality to reimagine the classroom from both sides -- an Intelligent Science Station for students and smart glasses for teache...
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HCII Team Tests Fitness Tracker for Wheelchair Athletes at NWBT
“It’s like all of March Madness in one weekend,” said Patrick Carrington, postdoctoral research fellow at the Human-Computer Interaction I...
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The Shape of Pasta: HCII Assistant Professor Morphs Matter
Lining Yao came of age in a small village in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Like most families in her town, she didn't have a...
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Support HCI Team and Stroke Patients by Voting in Chasing Genius Innovation Challenge
Uprooting beets on an augmented reality farm could soon help recovering stroke victims improve their motor skills if a team of human-compu...
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Blanket Statements: Covering a Quarter-Century of Wearable Tech
Look closer -- the sixteen squares of a quilt found in 3513 Newell-Simon Hall share a quarter-century of technological developments and th...
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Spring Capstones in Full Swing at HCII
For several of the majors in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, the spring semester is synonymous with capstone projects.
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Networking Event Connects HCI Students with Employers
From undergrads to PhDs, more than 110 students attended the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s informal networking event, HCI...