In a World Economic Forum blog entry, HCII Director Justine Cassell says technological innovations won’t reach their potential for solving human concerns if developers fail to understand the goals, fears and experiences of the humans who will use those innovations.

HCII PhD student Chris Harrison was listed by Forbes magazine in its “30 Under 30” special report on tomorrow’s brightest stars. The magazine identified 30 top disrupters under age 30 in 12 different fields. Harrison was among those chosen in the Science category.