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Carnegie Mellon Leads Multi-University Project To Improve Web and Cloud Computing Accessibility
The U.S. Department of Education is sponsoring a five-year, $3.7 million project led by Carnegie Mellon University to develop methods that...
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Carnegie Mellon, Temple Researchers Offer Fresh Perspective To Improve Learning by Taming Instructional Complexity
From using concrete or abstract materials to giving immediate or delayed feedback, there are rampant debates over the best teaching strate...
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Dow and André Received HCOMP Notable Paper Award
A paper by Steven Dow, assistant professor of HCII, and former HCII postdoc Paul André, “Community Clustering: Leveraging an Academic Crow...
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Carnegie Mellon-Disney Motion Tracking Technology Is Precise, Inexpensive, Fast
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research Pittsburgh have devised a motion tracking technology that could eliminate mu...
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HCII Alums Boost CMU Hackathon Performance
Three alumni of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s Masters Program — Min Zhao, Diana Chen and Asim Mittal — helped Carnegie Mellon...
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Hong Named PopTech Fellow
PopTech, a global social innovation incubator and thought leadership network, has named Jason Hong, associate professor in the Human-Compu...
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HCII Ph.D. Students Win Best Paper Award at UbiComp
PhD students Sauvik Das and Eiji Hayashi, along with their advisor Jason Hong, won a best paper award at the 2013 ACM International Joint ...
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MHCI Alumni Develop the Trance App, The Social Dancefloor
MHCI alumni Julien Altieri, Harper LaFave, Marwa Muhammad and Youna Yang designed and created the Trance App as a way for “letting dancer...
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Most Internet Users Seek Anonymity Online
A new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project and Carnegie Mellon University finds that most Internet users would like to be ...
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Myers Once Again Wins “Most Influential” Award
Brad A. Myers, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will be honored for the second year in a row as the author of a Most...
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Myers To Lead Multi-University NSF Grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded researchers Brad Myers (Carnegie Mellon University), Margaret M.
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Three HCII PhD Students Win Awards During International Conferences
HCII students Martina Rau, Samantha Finkelstein, and Yanjin Long are first authors on three award-winning papers during recent internation...
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PhD Student Will Odom’s Work on Digital Legacy Highlighted in ScienceNews
PhD student Will Odom’s work on digital legacy, and in particular digital legacy as it relates to bereavement in this technological age, i...
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HCII Researchers Develop Zooming Technique For Entering Text Into Smartwatches
Technology blogs have been abuzz that smartwatches may soon be on their way from companies such as Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft. B...
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Engaging Online Crowds in the Classroom Could Be Important Tool for Teaching Innovation
Online crowds can be an important tool for teaching the ins and outs of innovation, educators at Carnegie Mellon University and Northweste...
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Kinect plus projector makes anything a remote control
New Scientist featured WorldKit, a combination of depth cameras and projectors that enables computer interfaces to be created on almost an...
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With Wave of the Hand, HCII Researchers Create Touch-based Interfaces on Everyday Surfaces
Researchers previously have shown that a depth camera system, such as Kinect, can be combined with a projector to turn almost any surface ...
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“Self-Censorship on Facebook” Featured in The Atlantic, Mashable and Huffington Post
Sauvik Das’s internship work, “Self-Censorship on Facebook” has been gaining publicity.
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Analyzing Smartphone App Privacy
Many smartphone apps collect a great deal of personal information about individuals.
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Qeexo aims to make smartphone touchscreens even smarter
The Pittsburgh Business Times reported on Qeexo, a Carnegie Mellon spin-out co-founded by Human-Computer Interaction Institute graduate st...