HCII in the Media

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.

The Economist traces the history of human computation back to 1937 and discusses how the technique is on the rise once again. It highlights the work of Niki Kittur, assistant professor in HCII, on CrowdForge:

Chris Harrison, HCII PhD student, and the OmniTouch technology he developed with Microsoft Research and Scott Hudson, professor of HCII, was featured on ABC News’ “This Could Be Big.” Watch the video on Yahoo!

TapSense, a technology developed by HCII PhD students Chris Harrison and Julia Schwarz and HCII Prof. Scott Hudson, was the lead story Oct.

TechCrunch was among the first of hundreds of news outlets to highlight the work of Chris Harrison, Scott Hudson and colleagues at Microsoft Research on a new wearable projection system that allows the wearer to interact with any surface.

John Biggs, a CMU alumnus, reported:

Apollo Group, corporate parent of the University of Phoenix, has agreed to buy Carnegie Learning Inc., a spinoff of Carnegie Mellon University that markets Cognitive Tutor software, for $75 million. In a separate transaction, Apollo agreed to pay Carnegie Mellon $21.5 million over a 10-year period to acquire related technology.

HCII’s own John Zimmerman, along with Aaron Steinfeld and Anthony Tomasic and team, rolled out “Tiramisu” for the press yesterday. KDKA and WPXI ran spots on the local news, and today’s Post-Gazette and Tribune Review ran articles.

The Australian newspaper featured Ken Koedinger, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, in a story about Australia’s first meeting devoted to the science of learning.

John R. Anderson, the R.K. Mellon University Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science April 28 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.