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PayTango Featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus Blog
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog recently featured PayTango, the fingerprint-payment system created by four Carnegie ...
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Lomas’ Playpower Scores in McGinnis Venture Competition
Playpower Labs, a company co-founded by Derek Lomas, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, was one of three compani...
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Carnegie Mellon Student Startup Places Payments at Users’ Fingertips
It may take two to tango, but payments now are as easy as one touch.Four Carnegie Mellon University seniors tired of digging through backp...
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CMU’s Innovation City Celebrates HCII Students at SXSW
Students of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute were among the Carnegie Mellon innovators and spin-off companies featured at Innovati...
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Close Facebook Friends Are Effective in Finding New Jobs
Many users regard Facebook as a place to waste time and socialize with people to whom they have tenuous connections. But a new study sugge...
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John Anderson Earns Highest APS Honor
Carnegie Mellon University’s John R. Anderson — whose human thought and cognition research has revolutionized how we learn — has been sele...
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Human-Robot Interaction Research Featured in IEEE Spectrum
Researchers at the HCII have been studying how the manner in which robots communicate affects human attitudes.
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Dow and Settles Investigate Songwriting Chemistry
A hit song is often the product of co-writers who have great chemistry. But the elements that make the chemistry great aren’t always appar...
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Tool Boosts Success of Online Collaborations By Redistributing the Burdens of Leadership
The Web makes it possible for lots of people to collaborate on projects, but it doesn’t make it easy to lead them. A Carnegie Mellon Unive...
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Analysis Shows Online Songwriters Seek Collaborators With Complementary Skills, Status
A musical collaboration, be it Rodgers and Hammerstein or Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, requires a mix of shared and complementary trait...
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NewScientist Interviews Kittur About Crowdsourcing
Writing in NewScientist, Hal Hodson suggests that crowdsourcing’s Wild West days of exploitation may soon be over. He reports on efforts t...
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Research Could Ensure That Crowd Work Becomes a Career Option, Not a Dead End
Crowdsourcing is an effective way to mobilize people to accomplish tasks on a global scale, but some researchers fear that crowd work for ...
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Cassell Featured in World Economic Forum Video
Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, is among the faculty members representing Carnegie Mellon at the Wo...
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How She Got There: Julia Schwarz
Hercampus.com has published a Q&A with Julia Schwarz, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, exploring how she b...
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Jeff Rzeszotarski Receives Microsoft Fellowship
HCII PhD student Jeff Rzeszotarski was one of the recipients of the highly competitive 2013 Microsoft fellowships. There were 148 nominati...
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Did Your Smartphone Flashlight Rat You Out? Crowdsourcing Privacy Concerns of Mobile Apps
People are often surprised to learn that popular mobile applications on their smartphones are sharing their location, contact lists and ot...
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CBS Interviews Hong About Smartphone Snoops
Jason Hong, associate professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, was featured on CBS This Morning in a Dec. 26 segment about t...
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Harrison Is An “Innovator to Watch” in 2013
Smithsonian magazine has named Chris Harrison, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, as one of “Six Innovators to W...
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HCII Launches Master’s Program in Learning Science
A new one-year professional master’s program in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute will train graduates to apply evidence-based lear...
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Tiramisu App Wins FCC Chairman’s Award
The Carnegie Mellon research team that created Tiramisu, a smartphone app that enables transit riders to create realtime information about...