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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...
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CMU Team Finishes Fourth at Facebook Global Hackathon Finals
A team of four Carnegie Mellon undergraduates spent 24 hours transforming an idea for a simulation game into reality at Facebook’s Global ...
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Myers Among Four CMU Faculty Members Named IEEE Fellows
Four Carnegie Mellon University faculty members have been named 2013 Fellows of the Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEE...
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Cassell Named AAAS Fellow
Justine Cassell, the Charles M. Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named a Fellow of the American Asso...
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Business Insider Ranks HCII 9th Among Design Schools
BusinessInsider.com ranks Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute 9th on its list of the world’s bes...
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Alum Featured on Bravo’s “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley”
When David Murray was an undergrad at Carnegie Mellon, his friends used to kid him that he’d never find a job that combined all three of h...
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Rzeszotarski and Kittur Win A Best Paper Award at UIST
Congratulations to HCII PhD student Jeff Rzeszotarski and HCII Assistant Professor Aniket Kittur on their best paper award at the ACM Symp...