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  • Using SkinTrack to play Angry Birds

    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...

  • Steering Committee

    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...

  • Safe IoT

    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...

  • Andrew McHugh Image

    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 ...

  • Bridget Veerhoff

    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...

  • A researcher plays StarCraft against an AI player.

    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...

  • Handdrawn images from Martian Music Invasion

    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...

  • CHI2016 Logo

    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...

  • RFID tags quickly make objects like this Tic-Tac-Toe board interactive with digital devices.

    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...

  • Knowledge Accelerator illustration

    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...

  • Task requests on Facebook.

    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 ...

  • Visualization tool for analyzing routine behavior data

    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...

  • Using SkinTrack to play Angry Birds

    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...

  • Ogan Awarded Jacobs Early Career Research Fellowship

    Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) Assistant Professor Amy Ogan firmly believes that the best way to improve educational technolo...

  • Yannier with NoRILLA

    Student Spotlight: Ph.D. Candidate Nesra Yannier

    Nesra Yannier, a current Ph.D. candidate in the HCII, recently presented her thesis project to an auditorium full of entrepreneurs, facult...

  • HCII Faculty Participate in University of Pittsburgh Conference

    The Human-Computer Interaction Institute had a strong showing at the inaugural Integrative Conference on Technology, Social Media and Beha...

  • Heart implant clinic diagram.

    CHI 2016 Preview: HCII Researchers Get to the Heart of the Matter

    If there's anywhere machine intelligence would seem to fit perfectly, it's healthcare. The rise of electronic medical records combined wit...

  • Making Smartwatches Smarter

    New improvements to smartwatches address significant shortcomings in the initial product. But these advancements — such as built-in n...

  • Virtual peer tutors

    The Future of Education: Virtual Peers

    Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found a way to improve education for elementary and middle school students.

  • Winning Team

    CMU Takes First, Second and Third in Security Contest

    Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) was a force to be reckoned with during the March 12, 2016 Microsoft Build the Shield (BTS) competition at...