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  • Jeffrey Bigham

    Bigham Urges Increased Accessibility Education for Developers

    Computing has become more accessible to people with disabilities in the past 25 years, but it still has a long way to go before it b...

  • LearnLab students

    LearnLab Summer School Provides Hands-On Learning Experience

    When Bill Buttlar, a professor and associate dean in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's (UIUC) College of Engineering,...

  • Ken Koedinger

    Koedinger Talks LearnSphere in Hechinger Report, U.S. News & World Report

    "LearnSphere, a new $5 million federally funded project at Carnegie Mellon University, aims to become 'the biggest open repository o...

  • Adrian deFreitas using an Internet of Things app that automatically downloads transit apps when he is near a bus stop.

    IoT Research Makes Media Waves

    The HCII is leading the charge as Carnegie Mellon researchers work with colleagues at other universities to turn the CMU campus into...

  • Anind Dey and Adrian deFreitas

    HCII Leads Charge in New Google-Funded Project

    Carnegie Mellon University is turning its campus into a living laboratory for a multi-university expedition to create a robust platf...

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    Essential EDigs

    HCII Associate Professor Jennifer Mankoff recently appeared on Pittsburgh's NPR affiliate, 90.5 WESA-FM, to discuss EDigs, a new CMU...

  • Amanda Greenberg and Noah Bornstein

    Baloonr Helps Teams Get Ideas Off the Ground

    Ask a roomful of kindergarteners if they're artists, and all of them will unanimously boom "YES!" Ask adults, though, and the story ...

  • Geoff Kaufman, Chinmay Kulkarni and John Stamper

    HCII To Welcome New Faculty in August

    The HCII will add three assistant professors to its world-class faculty in August, when Geoff Kaufman and Chinmay Kulkarni will join...

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    MHCI Students Work on Solutions for First Responders

    A team of students in the Masters in Human-Computer Interaction program will spend the summer immersed in the world of firefighters,...

  • Jessica Hammer

    Hammer Featured in "Gaming the System"

    A recent article in U.S.News &World Report explored whether video games can help solve public health problems.

  • Nala logo with lounging cat.

    Nala in the News

    Last summer, a team of HCII master's student teamed up with the Animal Rescue League to create a website that helps members of the c...

  • Winning project teams: Salt and Pepper, Locadora and Wander

    HCII Students Envision Next Big Startup Ideas

    Want to go to an awesome concert tonight but don't want to go alone? Or maybe you aspire to making your own gourmet meal but find co...

  • A photo of the Snackbot robot.

    Snackbot Featured in the Harvard Business Review

    The Harvard Business Review's June cover story, "When Your Boss Wears Metal Pants," investigates the social constraints that have to...

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    EDigs Helps Apartment Hunters Find the Perfect Rental

    A new online resource from Carnegie Mellon University researchers seeks to help people find the perfect rental property by using too...

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    Shopping for Grad Programs? Try HCI.

    The HCII introduced its master of human-computer interaction degree in 1994 — the first degree of its kind at any institution. Now, ...

  • A plus doll with an iPhone head that uses the Acoustruments technology to make it interactive.

    CHI Research Makes Waves in the Media

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

  • James Pierce

    CHI2015: Pierce and Colleagues Offer Critical Take on "Critical Design"

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

  • This image shows the Earth Shake game screen on the top, and children playing the game on the bottom.

    CHI2015: Learning in the Real World Tops Learning From a Tablet

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

  • MHCI students standing in front of their Lantern poster at CHI.

    MHCI Team Takes Second Place in CHI Student Design Competition

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

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    CHI2015: Driven From Distraction in The Economist

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