
Show Your Hands: Smartwatches Sense Hand Activity
Devices That Know What Your Hands Are Doing Could Unlock New Apps We've become accustomed to our smartwatches and smartphones sensing wh...

HCII Researchers Make Soft, Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have used computationally controlled knitting machines to create plush toys and other knitted obje...

5 Papers from Morphing Matter Lab Accepted to CHI 2019
The Morphing Matter Lab from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is presenting five papers at CHI 2019....

HCII Research at CHI 2019
Thousands of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing ...

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...

Four Receive Google Faculty Research Awards in HCI
Four faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2018 Google Faculty Research Awards.

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...

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...

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...