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  HCII research presented last month at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (...

To the casual reader, the fact that the term "critical design" is slipping into the HCI vernacular might not seem like a big deal. But HCI...

You see it in headlines with more and more frequency: "Local School Provides Tablets for All Students." But though screen technologies are...

A team of students in the Masters of Human Computer Interaction program took second place last week in the 13th annual CHI Student Design ...

Faculty members Chris Harrison and Amy Ogan may be known for their HCI research, but their home renovation skills are making local headlin...

Photos of food. Check-ins at the gym. Political rants and memes prominently featuring cats. They fill up newsfeeds on social media, to the...

When designing anything — a new video game or the next-big-thing smartphone app — prototyping is key. It allows designers to quickly itera...

Work presented by HCII Director Anind Dey, Systems Scientist Seungjun Kim and Visiting Scholar Jaemin Chun at the Association for Computin...

As people find ever more inventive uses for smartphones, touchscreens sometimes fall short as control surfaces.

Mention 3D printing, and most people will conjure up images of rough plastic items with hard surfaces and sharp angles. Warm and fuzzy doe...

HCII Professor Jodi Forlizzi will deliver the keynote address at Persuasive Technology 2015.

Associate Professor Jason Hong recently appeared in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article that discussed the often-surprising ways in which sm...

Tinker Toys line the shelves of HCII Professor Scott Hudson's office, joined by electronic gadgets and gizmos of all kinds. A few felt ted...

National Geographic Channel's "Stephen Hawking's Science of the Future" recently featured the HCII's WorldKit project in the episode "Perf...

HCII startup DataSquid Inc has entered into a partnership with Public Insight, a benchmarking platform that maximizes the utility of publi...

The HCII's Amy Shannon (left) tread the boards as Queen Aggravain and first-year Ph.D. student Judy Oden Choi (right) helped produce the s...

Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute earned a total of seven awards when the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM)...

HCII Professor and Associate Vice-Provost for Technology Strategy and Impact Justine Cassell delivered a keynote address at CyberLearning ...

Associate Professor Carolyn Rosé is on the lecture circuit this semester. The keynote lecture circuit, that is.

Marti Louw, HCII faculty member and director of the Learning Media Design Center, took home the Best in Category award for "Engaging" at I...