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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...
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SCS Scientists Receive Sloan Research Fellowships
School of Computer Science faculty members Chris Harrison, Bryan Parno, Andrew Pavlo and Andreas Pfenning have received 2018 Sloan Resear...
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HCII Welcomes First Alumni & Corporate Relations Coordinator
Human-Computer Interaction Institute alumni may have noticed that messages from the alumni listserv are coming from a new, yet familiar na...
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Crowd Workers, AI Make Conversational Agents Smarter
Conversational agents such as Siri, Alexa and Cortana are great at giving you the weather, but flummoxed when asked for unusual informatio...
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$2.5m grant received to study the science of teaching
A new, five-year, $2.5 million research grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation has been awarded to a team led by Carnegie Mellon Uni...
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Valencia named to “Innovators Under 35 Latin America 2017”
First-year Human-Computer Interaction PhD student Stephanie Valencia Valencia was named to the MIT Tech Review’s Innovators under 35 Latin...
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Students apply computing skills to social causes in new course
Tiny lights flashed beside a cardboard replica of the Waterfront smokestacks as a new special topics course wrapped up the semester with f...
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Koedinger Accepts Hillman Professorship of Computer Science
Ken Koedinger, professor in the
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Gaming for good, first-time HCII team raises over $5,000 for the kids
Team “Carnage Melon” had lofty goals for its first time participating in the Extra Life charity gaming marathon, but it unlocked the $5,00...
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MHCI Alumnae Lead Panel Discussion at Grace Hopper Celebration
Four Master of Human-Computer Interaction alumnae were selected to lead an HCI panel discussion at the 2017 Grace Hopper Celebration of Wo...
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Harrison receives Habermann Chair in SCS
Chris Harrison, assistant professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named the A. Nico Habermann Chair in the School ...
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Carnegie Mellon Names Jodi Forlizzi HCII Director
Andrew Moore, dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, has appointed Jodi Forlizzi as the new Charles M.
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Gaming for good, HCII team prepares for 24-hour gaming marathon
From 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 4, until 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 5, someone from Carnage Melon will be awake and playing a game...