News
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Koedinger Will Deliver Keynote at Learning@Scale
HCII Faculty, Students to Present Papers and Works in Progress HCII faculty and students will travel to the University of Edinburgh next ...
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HCII Highlighted in Huffington Post Piece
A recent blog in the Huffington Post investigates the evolution of human-computer interaction as a field, and specifically calls out Carne...
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Diversity and Innovation Take First Place at Red Bull Hackathon
The inaugural Red Bull "Hack the Hits" Hackathon, presented by the college music and ideas festival RECESS, brought together collegiate en...
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"Understanding Online Communities" Earns SCS Allen Newell Research Award
For decades, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Robert Kraut has studied how people work together — first in actual ...
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HCII Team Takes Second Place in Microsoft’s College Puzzle Challenge
For ten uninterrupted hours on Saturday, April 9, teams of college students raced to solve challenging puzzles that tested their skills in...
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Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor Amy Ogan
Amy Ogan, an assistant professor in the HCII and an educational technologist, is fascinated by researching ways to make learning more enga...
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Explore, Refine, Persuade: HCII Faculty Take Playtesting to the Next Level
The last time you sat down to play a game — either the tabletop or video variety — how much thought did you give to how the game was devel...
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CMU, HCII Help Organize Event To Discuss Pittsburgh's Future
Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science, will join a who's who of Pittsburgh to discuss how to optimize the cit...
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Hong Hopeful About Smartphone Sensor Data Project
Sensor data from smartphones has the potential to provide new insight into healthcare, transportation, urban planning and the social scien...
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HCII's Human-Watch Interaction Featured in Digital Trends
The HCII's Future Interfaces Group and its work on smartwatch technology were recently featured in the Digital Trends article "Your Smartw...
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HCII Heads West for CHI 2016
Institute Honored With Seven "Best of CHI" Awards Carnegie Mellon University has a strong presence in Silicon Valley, but the university'...
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Rello Discusses Dyslexia With Wired
Web developer Victor Windell recently created an online simulation that allows viewers to experience what it’s like to have severe dyslexi...
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The Voice-Activated Future of Shopping
Conversant Labs, a technology startup that works on developing voice-enabled app technology, recently launched an app called Say Shopping ...
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Cassell Named Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh
Justine Cassell, School of Computer Science associate dean for technology strategy and impact and former HCII director, has been named a c...
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Hong Delivers Keynote Address at ICISSP 2016
HCII Associate Professor Jason Hong delivered the keynote address at the 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security and ...
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HCII Team Takes First Place in SCS Puzzlehunt
The HCII's "Human-Puzzle Interaction" team took top honors in the School of Computer Science's recent Puzzlehunt.
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Dey Talks IoT to AV Network
Since last July, Carnegie Mellon researchers have been working with Google to develop a platform to support Internet of Things (IoT) techn...
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Faculty Earn Google Research Awards
Five HCII faculty members have received 2015 Google Faculty Research Awards, which identify and support world-class faculty pursuing cutti...
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Xiao Among CMU's Winning Codebreaker Challenge Team
HCII Ph.D. student Robert Xiao was one of three Carnegie Mellon University students to finish in the top 25 in the National Security Agenc...
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HCII Faculty Among LearnLab Experts Who Participate in NSF Meeting
The National Science Foundation recently hosted a three-day conference to celebrate the success of its six Science of Learning Centers, an...