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MHCI Students Raised Over $6,000 for Extra Life in 2018
A group of masters students recently traveled to Lawrenceville to present a large check to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundatio...
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Four Receive Google Faculty Research Awards in HCI
Four faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2018 Google Faculty Research Awards.
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Tablet Prototype Senses Context to Provide Posture-Aware UI
The research paper “Sensing Posture-Aware Pen+Touch Interaction on Tablets” received an Honorable Mention award at CHI 2019. Lead a...
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Two HCII Staff Win 2019 SCS Awards
The eighth annual School of Computer Science Founders Day celebration took place on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at 4:00 p.m. The event was hos...
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Two Research Projects To Close 'Opportunity Gap' for Students
A pair of separate, but complementary, research projects led by Carnegie Mellon University will use cutting-edge research in motivation, t...
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Carnegie Mellon to Release Digital Learning Software Tools as Open-Source
In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it ...
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HCII Faculty Yao and Zimmerman to Speak at SXSW2019
Carnegie Mellon University students, faculty and alumni will be among the thousands descending onto Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest ...
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New Junior Professorships Honor Two Longtime HCII Faculty Members
Jason Hong and His Wife, Shelley Zhang, Endow Two Junior Professorships The sale of Wombat Security Technologies to Proofpoint Inc. ...
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Hammer, Ogan Accept Moran Professorships
Jessica Hammer and Amy Ogan, faculty members in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), received the inaugural Thomas and Lydia ...
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Kiesler Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Sara Kiesler, Hillman Chair Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has b...
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Scaling Up Search for Analogies Could Be Key to Innovation
AI, Crowdsourcing Can Identify Insights That Lead to Breakthroughs Investment in research is at an all-time high, yet the rate of scien...
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CMU Joins Pittsburgh Community at Racial Justice Summit
By Michael Henninger Kevin Jarbo used to take the bus from his apartment in the Hill District, one of Pittsburgh's predominantly black ...
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RFID Tag Arrays Track Body Movements, Shape Changes
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found ways to track body movements and detect shape changes using arrays of radio-frequency i...
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HCI students win Bose Challenge, Designing for Augmented Reality with Sound
More than 100 Carnegie Mellon University students participated in an on-campus challenge last month, designing solutions for an emerging f...
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PhD students contribute to Fall ACM XRDS issue on The Computer Scientist
Four Ph.D. students from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute contributed to the Fall 2018 issue of XRDS (Crossroads), the ACM Magazin...
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Human-Computer Interaction Institute Seeks Applicants for Summer Research Program
Information on the upcoming year is available on the 2020 Summer Research Program website. Application Dead...
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Inviting Clients for 2019 HCI Capstone Projects
Sponsors Needed for Student Projects The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 20...
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Kery, Myers Win Best Paper at VL/HCC for Verdant Prototype
Mary Beth Kery, PhD student, and Brad Myers, professor, won best paper at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computi...
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Hacking for the Kids at UPMC, HCII students on 1st and 4th place teams
Almost 300 hackers gathered in the new Tepper Quad on October 5, many staying for 24 hours straight. If the thought of this many h...
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HCII Preparing for 24-Hour Charity Gaming Marathon
CMU Extra Life team to game for good again in 2018 From 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 10, until 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 11, som...
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Sound, Vibration Recognition Boost Context-Aware Computing
New methods help smart devices detect what’s happening around them Ubicoustics Smart devices can seem dumb if they don’t understand wher...
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WGU and CMU Partner to Develop AI-Enabled Career Guidance Technology
National Science Foundation awards universities $700,000 grant to kick off 3-year research project
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Student-Created Online Tool Wins $79K Grant from Mozilla
Wick Editor, a free and open-source tool for creating games, animation and interactive media, is the winner of a $79,120 grant from the Mo...
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"Innovation by Design" Awards Recognize Several in HCII
Several from Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute were honored by Fast Company in its annual Innovation ...
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Ogan Named to World Economic Forum's Young Scientists 2018
Amy Ogan, the Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named t...
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Three from HCII named 2018-19 Innovation Fellows
Carnegie Mellon University’s Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship has named Anhong Guo, Ph.D. candidate, Gierad Laput, Ph.D.
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Prototyping Next-Generation Accessibility Tools with Bloomberg
Over the last two years, Bloomberg’s UX team has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University Master of Human-Computer Interaction program an...
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Actuation Gives New Dimensions to an Old Material
One of the oldest, most versatile and inexpensive of materials — paper — seemingly springs to life, bending, folding or flattening itself,...
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Vote CMU in SXSW PanelPicker
Each year, #CMUatSXSW shows Austin and the world how the work happening at Carnegie Mellon University is shaping the future.
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