HCII in the Media

New Scientist featured WorldKit, a combination of depth cameras and projectors that enables computer interfaces to be created on almost any surface using hand gestures.

Sauvik Das’s internship work entitled “Self-Censorship on Facebook” has been gaining publicity. Among other outlets, it has been featured in The Atlantic, Mashable, and Huffington Post.

Many smartphone apps collect a great deal of personal information about individuals.

The Pittsburgh Business Times reported on Qeexo, a Carnegie Mellon spin-out co-founded by Human-Computer Interaction Institute graduate students Julia Schwarz and Chris Harrison, along with entrepreneur Sang Won Lee.

The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog recently featured PayTango, the fingerprint-payment system created by four Carnegie Mellon students, including three human-computer interaction majors.

Many users regard Facebook as a place to waste time and socialize with people to whom they have tenuous connections. But a new study suggests that spending time on the social network interacting with your closest friends may increase your chances of landing a new job.

Writing in NewScientist, Hal Hodson suggests that crowdsourcing’s Wild West days of exploitation may soon be over. He reports on efforts to make crowd work vendors more accountable and to make the work itself more lucrative.

Hercampus.com has published a Q&A with Julia Schwarz, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, exploring how she became an app developer.

Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, is among the faculty members representing Carnegie Mellon at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, Jan. 23–27.

Smithsonian magazine has named Chris Harrison, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, as one of “Six Innovators to Watch in 2013.”