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  • Jeffrey Bigham

    Bigham Urges Increased Accessibility Education for Developers

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    Computing has become more accessible to people with disabilities in the past 25 years, but it still has a long way to go before it becomes...

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    Essential EDigs

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    HCII Associate Professor Jennifer Mankoff recently appeared on Pittsburgh's NPR affiliate, 90.5 WESA-FM, to discuss EDigs, a new CMU resou...

  • Jessica Hammer

    Hammer Featured in "Gaming the System"

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    A recent article in U.S.News &World Report explored whether video games can help solve public health problems.

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    Nala in the News

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    Last summer, a team of HCII master's student teamed up with the Animal Rescue League to create a website that helps members of the communi...

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    Snackbot Featured in the Harvard Business Review

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    The Harvard Business Review's June cover story, "When Your Boss Wears Metal Pants," investigates the social constraints that have to be ov...

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    Shopping for Grad Programs? Try HCI.

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    The HCII introduced its master of human-computer interaction degree in 1994 — the first degree of its kind at any institution. Now, more t...

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    CHI Research Makes Waves in the Media

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      HCII research presented last month at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (...

  • Ogan, Harrison Win Post-Gazette 2014-15 Renovation Inspiration Contest

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    Faculty members Chris Harrison and Amy Ogan may be known for their HCI research, but their home renovation skills are making local headlin...

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    CHI2015: Driven From Distraction in The Economist

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    Work presented by HCII Director Anind Dey, Systems Scientist Seungjun Kim and Visiting Scholar Jaemin Chun at the Association for Computin...

  • Jason Hong was quoted in a Post-Gazette article the privacy of apps.

    Hong Talks Privacy in Post-Gazette

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    Associate Professor Jason Hong recently appeared in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article that discussed the often-surprising ways in which sm...

  • Hawking Introduces WorldKit on "Science of the Future"

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    National Geographic Channel's "Stephen Hawking's Science of the Future" recently featured the HCII's WorldKit project in the episode "Perf...

  • Bob Kraut

    Kraut Talks Facebook Friends in The Atlantic

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    More than 70 percent of Internet users are on Facebook. And while the site applies the word "friend" to everyone in a user's network, the ...