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Gadgets That Know Who You Are, Just By Touch
HCII PhD student Chris Harrison, working with colleagues at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, has helped develop a technique called capacitive ...
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HCII Paper of 2002 Named “Most Influential”
The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing has recognized a 2002 paper on usable programming systems co-authored b...
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HCII Students Named Seibel Scholars
Two Ph.D. candidates in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute—Min Kyung Lee and Martina Rau—are among five Carnegie Mellon University g...
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Newsmaker: Justine Cassell
HCII Director Justine Cassell was the featured “Newsmaker” Sept. 8 in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The column noted Cassell is the Charl...
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Cassell to Formally Receive Geschke Directorship
Justine Cassell will formally receive her appointment as the Charles M. Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII...
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Chris Harrison Named to TR35 List of Young Innovators
MIT’s Technology Review has named Chris Harrison to its annual TR35 list of innovators under the age of 35. He and the rest of the 2012 ho...
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Technology Review Names Chris Harrison to TR35 List of Top Innovators
Chris Harrison, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) who develops new ways fo...
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Koedinger to Deliver APA Keynote Address
Ken Koedinger, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and director of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, will prese...
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HCII PhD Students Win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
The team of Robert Xiao and Chris Harrison, both PhD students in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, was one of eight U.S. groups se...
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NRC Report Says Computing Advances Vital to Sustainability Efforts
Innovation in computing will be essential to finding real-world solutions to sustainability challenges in such areas as electricity produc...
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Livehoods Wins Best Paper Award at ICWSM 2012
Work by Justin Cranshaw (ISR), Raz Schwartz (visiting scholar), Jason Hong (HCII), and Norman Sadeh (ISR) recently won the best paper awar...
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Revolutionary Technology Enables Objects to Know How They Are Being Touched
A doorknob that knows whether to lock or unlock based on how it is grasped, a smartphone that silences itself if the user holds a finger t...
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Touché Technology Detects How You Touch
Gizmag, along with Wired, TechCrunch and other media outlets, has a feature on Touché, a new touch-sensing technology developed at ...
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Picking the Brains of Strangers Improves Efforts to Make Sense of Online Information
People who have already sifted through online information to make sense of a subject can help strangers facing similar tasks without ever ...
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Book Draws Lessons from Social Science to Guide Creation of Online Communities
Online communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but attempts to create social networking sites often meet with...
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Using Foursquare Data to Redefine a Neighborhood
Technology Review took early notice of Livehoods, a project undertaken by Jason Hong, associate professor of HCII; Raz Schwartz, a visitin...
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CMU Researchers Use Foursquare Check-in Data to Create Dynamic View of Cities
The millions of “check-ins” generated by foursquare, the location-based social networking site, can be used to create a dynami...
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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
Moira Burke, a PhD alum of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and now a researcher at Facebook, is quoted regarding her research on ...
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Vibrating Steering Wheel Guides Drivers While Keeping Their Eyes on the Road
A vibrating steering wheel is an effective way to keep a driver’s eyes safely on the road by providing an additional means to convey...
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Computerworld Honors HCII’s MILLEE Project
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies, or MILLEE, project has ...