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Anderson’s Legacy Is Revolutionizing How We Learn
John R. Anderson, the R.K. Mellon University Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Compute...
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Virtual Possessions Have Powerful Hold on Teenagers
Digital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, email threads and other immaterial artifacts of today’s online world ma...
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Cassell Featured in Technology Town Hall Meeting
Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will join experts from the news media and industry to discuss how t...
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Myers Receives Microsoft Research SEIF Award
Brad A. Myers, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, is one of 10 recipients chosen by Microsoft Research for its 2011 So...
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HCII’s Lomas Wins National Prize for “Numbaland!” Game
“Numbaland!,” a collection of math games developed by Human-Computer Interaction Institute PhD student Derek Lomas and two colleagues, won...
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Teaching Gets Smarter
Ken Koedinger came to Carnegie Mellon University in 1986 as a PhD student—exploring how software could be harnessed as a teaching to...
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news.com.au Covers CrowdForge
news.com.au warns journalists about potential quality of crowd sourced journalism. The article describes the CrowdForge developed by HCII’...
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Silicon Supervisor Gets the Job Done Online
New Scientist says a new kind of crowdsourcing could change the way we work. CrowdForge, a structure for crowdsourcing creative work devel...
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Where Are the Women in Wikipedia?
HCII Director Justine Cassell joins in the discussion over the relative lack of female contributors to Wikipedia, why the disparity exists...
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Crowd Workers Are Not Online Shakespeares, But HCII Researchers Show They Can Write
Writing can be a solitary, intellectual pursuit, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that the task of writing an info...
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Justine Cassell Joins Panel to Discuss Brain and Behavior
Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will be part of a campus panel discussion on how interdisciplinary ...
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Derek Lomas - NumberPower: Challenge Grand Prize Winner
Derek Lomas, a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, won the $50,000 grand prize in the $100K Challenge, a competition ...
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Robert Kraut Quoted in USA Today
Professor Robert Kraut was quoted in a USA Today article about the impact of pervasive communication technology on how people interact wit...
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CMU to Host Automotive User Interfaces Conference
Anind K. Dey, Associate Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Institute, and CMU welcome the 2nd International Automotive User...
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Culturally Inspired Mobile Phone Games Help Chinese Children Learn Language Characters
Mobile phone-based games could provide a new way to teach basic knowledge of Chinese language characters that might be particularly helpfu...
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NSF Project Will Develop Architecture That Makes Internet Secure, Smart
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University will lead a three-year, $7.1 million effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) t...
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Carnegie Mellon Joins NSF Research Consortium to Develop Tools for Analyzing Autism, Other Behaviors
Researchers in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University will join a five-year, $10 million initiative funded by the Na...
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Moira Burke and Bob Kraut Receive Journal of Small Group Research Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Moira Burke and Bob Kraut who received an award for the best article to be published in the Journal of Small Group Rese...
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Cellphone Serves As Learning Platform for the Developing World
An article in the Communications of the ACM describes work by HCII PhD student Anuj Kumar and others, which they presented in a CHI 2010 ...
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Carnegie Mellon Hosting Conferences on Computer Tutors, Educational Data Mining
The expanding role of computers in education and in educational research will be addressed by two back-to-back research conferences hosted...