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Alumni Spotlight: Sandhya Pillalamarri, MHCI '05
Bringing together computer science, behavioral sciences and design is a signature combination of the Master of Human-Computer Interaction ...
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Rosé Gets MOOCs More Social
Why do so many students drop out of MOOCs before completing the class? This is a question that has interested Carolyn Rosé, associate prof...
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McLaren on Robots: Lifesavers or Terminators?
A recent CNN news article questioned the future of autonomous machines: are they out of control demons or lifesaving robots? While self-dr...
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HCII Ph.D. Jennifer Olsen Recognized as Siebel Scholar
Jennifer Olsen, a fifth year Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), will be joining five other Carnegie Mellon ...
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Twitch Plays Game Design: Audience Participation in Games
To anyone who has played a family board game or turned on a video game with a group of friends in the basement, the idea of watching games...
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Guo Receives Honorable Mention at MobileHCI 2016
Anhong Guo, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), received an Honorable Mention at the 2016 MobileHCI confer...
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EM-Sense Wins Fast Company Innovation by Design Award
EM-Sense, a technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research for automatically identifying an electrical or electrom...
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Friends Help Friends Feel Better on Facebook
Personal interactions on Facebook can have a major impact on a person's feelings of well-being and satisfaction with life just as much as ...
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Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor Chinmay Kulkarni
Meet Chinmay Kulkarni, who joined the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) faculty last year. Kulkarni shares his background, resea...
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In the Loop: Jessica Hammer
Jessica Hammer is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, with a joint appointment between the Human-Computer Interaction In...
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Human-Computer Interaction Institute T-Shirt Competition
In the last week of August, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University welcomes the newest students int...
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Kraut Receives NSF Grant in Support of Online Communities
Despite the existence of successful online groups, the majority of newly created ones fail. They don’t survive, fail to attract enough dig...
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METALS Capstone Sponsor, MARi, finalist in Reach Higher Learning Career App Challenge
It's not everyday that a Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) capstone project brings you to the White House to present your work, ...
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CMU Researchers Advance Ed-Tech Pilots in Pittsburgh Schools
Technology use continues to rise in schools as an important means for teachers to create a more personalized learning experience for stude...
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Alumni Spotlight: Mark Potter, METALS '14
Mark Potter is a 2014 graduate from the Masters of Educational Technologies and Applied Learning Science (METALS) at Carnegie Mellon Unive...
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Operating Your Smart Watch with the Hand That Wears It
Despite the increasing number of smart watches entering the market, these wearable devices are all facing similar challenges for users; sm...
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Decimal Point: Can Having Fun Increase Learning?
When it comes to learning math, how much fun you are having is rarely factored into the equation. That isn't to say that game designers ha...
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HCII Takes Home Best Paper Award at UMAP 2016
Can past learning activities predict differences in individual student success? A recent project with researchers from the Human-Computer ...
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What's the Difference Between Paper and Digital? The Bigger Picture
If you are reading an article just to get the facts, are you better off reading it online or printing the article? Or does it really matte...