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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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,...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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, ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...