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Meet Major Adrian de Freitas, HCII Ph.D. Student
The day of a Ph.D. student's dissertation is typically full of preparation, a few nerves and lots of practice presentations. It is not as ...
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Cassell and the Advent of Virtual Humans
Meet Sara, the "socially aware robot assistant" that previous Human-Computer Interaction Institute Director, Justine Cassell, brought to t...
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Ogan on Sensors in the Classroom
Carnegie Mellon University, like other colleges and universities, is able to create smaller learning cohorts from large lectures by using ...
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Alumni Spotlight: Chris Connors, MHCI '97
Chris Connor is a 1997 alumnus of the Masters of Human-Computer Interaction; one of the first graduating classes of students in the progra...
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Harrison Comments on Future for Wearables
Product Design & Development recently turned to Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) Assistant Professor Chris Harrison to answ...
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Harrison Explains Info Bulb to TechRepublic
After 130 years of diligently lighting up our homes, light bulbs may be ready for a serious upgrade. Human-Computer Interaction Institute ...
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Hong Discusses Cybersecurity and the Future of IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to be a priority research area for faculty in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII.) In p...
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SkinTrack Turns Your Arm into a Trackpad
The Future Interfaces Group (FIG), a lab directed by Human-Computer Interaction Institute Assistant Professor Chris Harrison, was recently...
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The HCII Leads Discussion for Future Design Research Organization
Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) faculty John Zimmerman joined scholars and professionals from across the United States and Can...
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Hong Speaks on Safe and Secure Internet of Things
Associate professor Jason Hong believes that we are currently living in the early stages of the third wave of computing. The first wave wa...
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Meet Andrew McHugh, Co-author of "The Book of What If…?"
"What if everything could communicate?" This is just one of the questions posited by Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) master's ...
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Alumni Spotlight: Bridget Veerhoff, MHCI '07
Bridget Veerhoff is a 2007 graduate from the Accelerated Masters of Human-Computer Interaction (MHCI) at Carnegie Mellon University, but t...
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Kim Explores the Next Frontier in AI Game Agents
When Google DeepMind's AlphaGo bot defeated the world's top Go player earlier this year, many wondered what the next challenge would be. A...
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Student Spotlights: Jennifer Han and Chris Barker
Because of its interdisciplinary nature, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) often brings together students from departments a...
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HCII Makes Media Splash at CHI 2016
Many HCIIers headed to San Jose last week for the Association for Computing Machinery's Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2016...
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HCII @ CHI: Technique Processes RFID Tag Signals With Speed Sufficient for Real-Time Interactivity
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags are designed primarily for inventory control, but researchers at Disney Research and the HCII h...
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HCII @ CHI: Making the Most of Your Facebook Friends
Everyone has that friend — the one who takes to Twitter or Facebook to ask their followers for advice on a new appliance, questions about ...
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HCII @ CHI: Computer Guides Humans in Crowdsourced Research
Getting a bunch of people to collectively research and write a coherent report without any one person seeing the big picture may seem akin...
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CHI Preview: HCII Researchers Develop Novel Tool for Modeling Human Behavior
Everyone has some kind of routine. Whether it's how you get ready each morning or how you drive your car, routines are behavior blueprints...
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CHI Preview: SkinTrack Technology Turns Arm Into Smartwatch Touchpad
Since the advent of smartwatches, technologists have been looking to expand interactions beyond the confines of the small watch face. A ne...