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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...
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PhD Student’s Twitter Moniker, @BP, Causes Confusion
Bryan Pendleton, a PhD student in HCII, is known on Twitter as @BP. But since the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, some Twitter users have...
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Newsmaker: Moira Burke
Moira Burke, HCII PhD student, was the featured “Newsmaker” in the Sunday, May 9 edition of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Moi...
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Small Mobile Devices Can Serve As Own Computer Mice with Minput Sensing Method
The same inexpensive, but high-quality optical sensors employed in the common computer mouse can enable small mobile phones and digital mu...
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Chris Harrison Uses Skin As Input for Mobile Devices
A combination of simple bio-acoustic sensors and some sophisticated machine learning makes it possible for people to use their fingers or ...
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Justine Cassell Named HCII Director
Randal E. Bryant, dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has announced the appointment of Justine Cassell as the...
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A Little Black Box to Jog Failing Memory
The New York Times reports on work by Anind Dey and Matthew Lee, using Microsoft Research’s SenseCam, to collect images and other digital ...
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CMU to Research Sensors to Track Elderly
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports on work by HCII PhD student Matthew Lee and faculty Anind Dey.
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Carnegie Mellon to Test Ability of Embedded Sensors to Detect Onset of Dementia, Infirmity
Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the Quality of Life Technology Center (QoLTC) will embed wireless sensors in the residences of a...
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IEEE Spectrum: Special Report: Robots for Real
HCII PhD student Matthew Lee, along with the QoLT, is included with some of the world’s most creative minds in robotics in the segme...
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Snackbot Featured in New York Times Article
Paul Rybski and Min Kyung Lee work on Snackbot are featured in a New York Times article on “Robo Chefs.”
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Chris Harrison Receives Microsoft Fellowship
HCII PhD student Chris Harrison was one of the recipients of the highly competitive 2010 Microsoft fellowships. There were 176 nominations...
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Aruna Balakrishnan Receives Two IBM Fellowships
HCII PhD student Aruna Balakrishnan received the IBM PhD fellowship and the IBM Fran Allen Fellowship given to just one of the IBM fellows...