News & Events
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CMU at Virtual CHI 2021
More than one hundred researchers from Carnegie Mellon will log on to virtually attend the international ACM Conference on Human F...
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CMU Lab Leads Development of Pasta That Morphs Into Shape When Cooked
Flat-Packed Noodles Create More Sustainable Packaging, Transportation and Storage People love pasta for its shapes — from tubes of penne...
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SCS Remembers Adobe Founder and Ph.D. Alum Charles Geschke
A creator of software that revolutionized the way people collaborate, Charles M. Geschke left his mark on Carnegie Mellon Univers...
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Hackathons Give HCII Student Energy
During a long and challenging year, one Carnegie Mellon student has found something that gives her a challenging creative outlet, ...
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Yao Receives NSF CAREER Award
Five School of Computer Science faculty members recently earned National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CARE...
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A New Way to Learn Computer Science
A team of Carnegie Mellon University learning scientists are developing a tool that could change the way high school teachers and students...
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Hudson Wins SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
Scott Hudson, a professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), is this year's winner of the Lifetime Achievement A...
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CMU Researchers Win NSF-Amazon Fairness in AI Awards
Three Carnegie Mellon University research teams have received funding through the Program on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence, which th...
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Hammer and Kalarchian Win Shape of Health Competition
A new game developed by Jessica Hammer and Melissa Kalarchian, two Pittsburgh-based researchers, won first prize in a national competition...
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HCII Team Named USDOT Inclusive Design Challenge Semifinalist
Researchers Will Develop Prototype Smartphone Interface for Accessible Self-Driving Cars
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HCII Seeks Capstone Sponsors for 2021
Apply our future HCI leaders to your organization's challenges next year The Human-Computer Interaction Institute invites compani...
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HCII Faculty Receive Facebook Research Award
Professor Jason Hong and Associate Professor Laura Dabbish have received an award from Facebook to research privacy on the social ...
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HCII Seeks Researchers for Summer 2021 Program
Application now available for the 2021 HCII Summer Research Program Summer 2020 was an unprecedented year for all. The ongoing pandemic p...
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Zhu, Kaufman Receive Chairs Named Honoring Longtime HCII Faculty
Haiyi Zhu and Geoff Kaufman, both faculty members in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), are the inaugural recipients...
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Nagashima Receives Award at AECT 2020
Tomohiro Nagashima, HCI Ph.D. student, received the “Nova Southeastern University Award for Outstanding Practice” at the 2020 Asso...
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HCII Announces DEI Committee and Fund
Founding a new committee while working remotely during a pandemic might not sound like ideal timing, but those challenges have not...
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Team Receives $2.3M from NSF for Intelligent Science Stations
A team of Human-Computer Interaction Institute researchers composed of Systems Scientist Nesra Yannier (PI) and Professors Ken Koedinger (...
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Two SCS Students Win 2020 Google PhD Fellowships
Abdelkareem Bedri and Anjalie Field, Ph.D. students in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the Language Technologies Inst...
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MML Video Explores Morphing Matter From Home
In a typical year, Assistant Professor Lining Yao and some of her students would travel to Linz, Austria, to attend Ars Electronic...
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FIG Lab Receives 4 Innovation by Design Awards
Four projects from the HCII's Future Interfaces Group (FIG Lab) were honored by Fast Company's 2020 Innovation by Design Awards. ...
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Jin Receives 2020 UbiComp Outstanding Student Award
Haojian Jin, fifth year PhD student, received the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award on Thursday, September 17, 2020, dur...
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Hammer Receives Global Women in Games Hall of Fame Award
Jessica Hammer, Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science, was named to the Global Women in Games Hall of Fame last w...
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More than Human-Centred Design: CMU at DIS 2020
Like many other conferences this year, the 2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held virtually in July. The them...
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