News & Events
You're in the right place to keep up with department news and upcoming events at the HCI Institute.
View our recent news stories below. Looking for an upcoming event? Visit our website calendar to view our public events, including our weekly Seminar Series on Friday afternoons.
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MHCI Alumnae Lead Panel Discussion at Grace Hopper Celebration
Four Master of Human-Computer Interaction alumnae were selected to lead an HCI panel discussion at the 2017 Grace Hopper Celebration of Wo...
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Harrison receives Habermann Chair in SCS
Chris Harrison, assistant professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named the A. Nico Habermann Chair in the School ...
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Carnegie Mellon Names Jodi Forlizzi HCII Director
Andrew Moore, dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, has appointed Jodi Forlizzi as the new Charles M.
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Gaming for good, HCII team prepares for 24-hour gaming marathon
From 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 4, until 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 5, someone from Carnage Melon will be awake and playing a game...
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Inviting clients for 2018 HCI capstone projects
Sponsors Needed for HCI Student Capstone Projects The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for sprin...
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HCII Professor Earns Most Influential Paper Award for Fourth Time in Six Years
A 2006 paper co-authored by Jeff Stylos, then-Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student, and Brad Myers, professor in the Human-Computer In...
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HCII PhD Student Robert Xiao Talks PPP 4th "World Series of Hacking" Win.
"The win represents the strength of the team and CMU's dominance in cyber security."
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HCII Ph.D. Students Receive CMLH Fellowship in Digital Health
Four Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. students are recipients of the Center for Machine Learning and Health (CMLH) Fellowship in...
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HCII Faculty Writers of Crash Course in Computer Science
The first known use of the word, computer, was actually in reference to a job title, not a piece of technology. In spite of the past trend...
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ChromeView: A Plugin Designed to Fight Selective Exposure
"Algorithm models and machine learning systems. Whether we realize it or not, our daily lives center around them," explained a team of Car...
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Skip the Password, Use "Secret Knock" Instead
Article originally posted on www.cs.cmu.edu In the days of Prohibition, thirsty men and women used a secret knock to enter speakeasies. O...
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HCII Students Bedri and Zhang Win Qualcomm Fellowship
Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D students Abdelkareem Bedri and Yang Zhang are the recipients of this year's Qualcomm Fellowship....
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RoboTutor Advances to Global Learning XPRIZE Semifinals
RoboTutor, educational technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University that teaches children basic math and reading skills, has been na...
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Jason Hong Explains How AI Will Invoke New Hack Attacks
Jason Hong, associate professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, recently shared his thoughts with SD Times about the rising i...
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McLaren Receives NSF Grant to Data Mine Learning from Erroneous Examples
Erroneous examples, step-by-step examples of incorrect problem solving, is a pedagogical approach used in only a few fields, such as medic...
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Jeffrey Bigham Future Leader of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University is a place where the future is imagined and re-designed constantly. Roads with self-driving cars, rooms powered...
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Jennifer Mankoff Discusses 3D Printing With Forbes
3D printing has been quietly moving towards a radical revolution over the past several years. While it has already exceeded 5.1 billion, i...
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Nesra Yannier Talks Earthshake to 90.5 WESA
What does a gorilla, toppling towers and a postdoctoral fellow from Carnegie Mellon University have in common? They are all part of the mi...
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Carnegie Mellon Offers New Master's Degree in Product Management
Originally posted on www.cs.cmu.edu by Byron Spice 05/16/2017.
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3D Printing Project, Façade, presented this week at CHI
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