End-User Programming

CMU Researchers Develop Tool To Help Determine When To Reuse Content

screenshot of tool that measures context, trustworthiness and thoroughness of content

Don't reinvent the wheel, the saying goes. But before using someone else's design, at least make sure it will be round.

The answers to most people's questions or the solutions to most challenges can be found within the seemingly endless content on the internet. The problem, however, lies in determining what content is good to reuse and what content should be tossed aside as refuse.

And often, validating a piece of found content or information takes longer than if someone were to just start from scratch.

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 Systems (also known as CHI) this weekend. The premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction will take place in Glasgow, UK from May 4-9, 2019.

Four Receive Google Faculty Research Awards in HCI

4 photos of the winners arranged in a square, clockwise from top left: Kittur, Bigham, Myers and Koedinger

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

Google seeks to identify and strengthen long-term collaborative relationships with world-class computer science faculty researchers in areas of mutual interest. The goal of these collaborations is to impact how future generations use technology.

Kery, Myers Win Best Paper at VL/HCC for Verdant Prototype

2 pictures of MaryBeth Kery presenting at VLHCC; 1 picture of MaryBeth and Brad Myers and receiving the best paper award

Mary Beth Kery, PhD student, and Brad Myers, professor, won best paper at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) in Lisbon, Portugal, October 1-4, 2018.

Four from HCII Receive Google Faculty Research Awards

headshots of four HCII faculty: Kittur, Forlizzi, Rose and Myers

Selected from more than one thousand proposals, four faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2017 Google Faculty Research Awards. Google hopes these collaborative relationships with world-class computer science faculty researchers will impact how future generations use technology, benefiting both the researchers and Google.

HCII Professor Earns Most Influential Paper Award for Fourth Time in Six Years

Brad Myers and Jeff Stylos receive Most Influential Paper Award

A 2006 paper co-authored by Jeff Stylos, then-Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student, and Brad Myers, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will receive the Most Influential Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (IEEE VL/HCC 2017) this week in Raleigh, North Carolina.