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Everybody who waits at a bus stop wants to know one thing: Where’s the bus? Thanks to Tiramisu, a new iPhone application developed at Carn...

HCII’s own John Zimmerman, along with Aaron Steinfeld and Anthony Tomasic and team, rolled out “Tiramisu” for the press yesterday.

The Australian newspaper featured Ken Koedinger, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, in a story about Australia’s first...

Computers may be a common part of modern life and work, but the languages and methods used to program those computers continue to confound...

John R. Anderson, the R.K. Mellon University Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Compute...

Digital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, email threads and other immaterial artifacts of today’s online world ma...

Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will join experts from the news media and industry to discuss how t...

Brad A. Myers, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, is one of 10 recipients chosen by Microsoft Research for its 2011 So...

“Numbaland!,” a collection of math games developed by Human-Computer Interaction Institute PhD student Derek Lomas and two colleagues, won...

Ken Koedinger came to Carnegie Mellon University in 1986 as a PhD student—exploring how software could be harnessed as a teaching to...

news.com.au warns journalists about potential quality of crowd sourced journalism. The article describes the CrowdForge developed by HCII’...

New Scientist says a new kind of crowdsourcing could change the way we work. CrowdForge, a structure for crowdsourcing creative work devel...

HCII Director Justine Cassell joins in the discussion over the relative lack of female contributors to Wikipedia, why the disparity exists...

Writing can be a solitary, intellectual pursuit, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that the task of writing an info...

Justine Cassell, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will be part of a campus panel discussion on how interdisciplinary ...

Derek Lomas, a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, won the $50,000 grand prize in the $100K Challenge, a competition ...

Professor Robert Kraut was quoted in a USA Today article about the impact of pervasive communication technology on how people interact wit...

Anind K. Dey, Associate Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Institute, and CMU welcome the 2nd International Automotive User...

Mobile phone-based games could provide a new way to teach basic knowledge of Chinese language characters that might be particularly helpfu...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University will lead a three-year, $7.1 million effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) t...