News
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New HCII Social Space Dedicated As the Kiesler-Kraut Commons
On December 2, 2011 a group of appreciative students and colleagues gathered to dedicate the new HCII Social Space as the Kiesler-Kraut Co...
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Return of the Human Computers
The Economist traces the history of human computation back to 1937 and discusses how the technique is on the rise once again. It highlight...
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Death to Keyboards & Monitors
Chris Harrison, HCII PhD student, and the OmniTouch technology he developed with Microsoft Research and Scott Hudson, professor of HCII, w...
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Schwarz Takes 1st Place in UIST Student Innovation Contest
Julia Schwarz, a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and David Klionsky, a recent master’s graduate in the Computer S...
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Students Design Light Shows for Pausch Bridge
The 230-foot-long Randy Pausch Memorial Bridge is both a well-trod connection between the Gates Center for Computer Science and the Purnel...
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Tap Sensor Takes Touch to the Next Level
TapSense, a technology developed by HCII PhD students Chris Harrison and Julia Schwarz and HCII Professor Scott Hudson, was the lead story...
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Tiramisu Cited by Intelligent Transportation Society of America
Tiramisu Transit, an iPhone app developed by Carnegie Mellon that uses crowdsourcing to help transit riders know when their bus will arriv...
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SideBySide Projection System Enables Projected Interaction Between Mobile Devices
Researchers at Disney Research Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a system called SideBySide that enables animated ima...
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Carnegie Mellon Develops Touchscreen Technology That Distinguishes Taps by Different Parts of Finger
Smartphone and tablet computer owners have become adept at using finger taps, flicks and drags to control their touchscreens. But Carnegie...
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Wearable Depth-Sensing Projection System Makes Any Surface Capable of Multitouch Interaction
OmniTouch, a wearable projection system developed by researchers at Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University, enables users to tu...
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CMU and Microsoft Researchers Turn Any Surface into a Touchscreen
TechCrunch was among the first of hundreds of news outlets to highlight the work of Chris Harrison, Scott Hudson and colleagues at Microso...
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Raju Named 2012 Siebel Scholar
The Siebel Scholars Foundation has announced that Preethi Raju, a master’s student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and ...
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Cassell Will Speak at “Summer Davos”
Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will be among four Carnegie Mellon University faculty members who w...
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Apollo Group to Acquire Carnegie Learning
Apollo Group, corporate parent of the University of Phoenix, has agreed to buy Carnegie Learning Inc., a spinoff of Carnegie Mellon Univer...
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PhD Student Jason Wiese Wins a Yahoo! 2011 Key Scientific Challenges Program Award
Big congratulations to PhD student Jason Wiese, who has just won a Yahoo! 2011 Key Scientific Challenges Program Award. Jason won for his ...
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Working Out How Students Think and Learn
The Australian newspaper featured Ken Koedinger, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, in a story about Australia’s first...
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Carnegie Mellon Develops iPhone App That Predicts When Bus Will Arrive
Everybody who waits at a bus stop wants to know one thing: Where’s the bus? Thanks to Tiramisu, a new iPhone application developed at Carn...
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Local News Covers Tiramisu Roll Out
HCII’s own John Zimmerman, along with Aaron Steinfeld and Anthony Tomasic and team, rolled out “Tiramisu” for the press yesterday.
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Symposium Explores How Computer Programs Can Be Made Easier to Write and Understand
Computers may be a common part of modern life and work, but the languages and methods used to program those computers continue to confound...