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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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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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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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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 ...
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Eric Paulos Receives First Cooper-Siegel Professorship
Faculty members in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science (SCS) and College of Fine Arts (CFA) are the first recipi...
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Cassell Posts on World Economic Forum Blog
In a World Economic Forum blog entry, HCII Director Justine Cassell says technological innovations won’t reach their potential for solving...
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Quarter of Tweets Not Worth Reading, HCII Researcher Reports
Twitter users choose the microblogs they follow, but that doesn’t mean they always like what they get. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Univ...
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New iPad Programming Course Launched
Devices in hand, a group of students lucky enough to get into one of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s newest classes are already...
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Charles Geschke Endows HCII Directorship
Charles M. Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc., and his wife, Nancy, have endowed the directorship of the Human-Computer Interaction...
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HCII Is Hiring Tenure-Track Faculty
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University seeks faculty candidates with a strong track record in research, ou...
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Forbes Names Harrison to “30 Under 30” List
HCII PhD student Chris Harrison was listed by Forbes magazine in its “30 Under 30” special report on tomorrow’s brightes...
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Redesign the HCII Website! $1,300 in Prizes
What: Challenge to redesign the HCII websiteDue: February 15, 2012Prizes: $1,000 first prize and $300 second prizeThe Human-Computer Inter...