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Blanket Statements: Covering a Quarter-Century of Wearable Tech
NEWSLook closer -- the sixteen squares of a quilt found in 3513 Newell-Simon Hall share a quarter-century of technological developments and the birth of the wearable computing industry....
Siewiorek Honored With IEEE's Booth Education Award
NEWSDaniel P. Siewiorek, the Buhl University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), has been named the 2018...
Spring Capstones in Full Swing at HCII
NEWSFor several of the majors in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, the spring semester is synonymous with capstone projects. And now that spring break is upon us, capstone projects are...
SCS Scientists Receive Sloan Research Fellowships
NEWSSchool of Computer Science faculty members Chris Harrison, Bryan Parno, Andrew Pavlo and Andreas Pfenning have received 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships, which honor early career scholars ...
HCII Welcomes First Alumni & Corporate Relations Coordinator
NEWSHuman-Computer Interaction Institute alumni may have noticed that messages from the alumni listserv are coming from a new, yet familiar name. The HCII team is excited to announce Jessica S...
$2.5m grant received to study the science of teaching
NEWSA new, five-year, $2.5 million research grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation has been awarded to a team led by Carnegie Mellon University assistant professor Amy Ogan to study teac...
Valencia named to “Innovators Under 35 Latin America 2017”
NEWSFirst-year Human-Computer Interaction PhD student Stephanie Valencia Valencia was named to the MIT Tech Review’s Innovators under 35 Latin America 2017 for her work on the “ijwi” device....
Students apply computing skills to social causes in new course
NEWSTiny lights flashed beside a cardboard replica of the Waterfront smokestacks as a new special topics course wrapped up the semester with final project demos in the Kiesler-Kraut Commons lo...
Koedinger Accepts Hillman Professorship of Computer Science
NEWSKen Koedinger, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and Department of Psychology, accepted the Hillman Professorship of Computer Science in a ceremony Dec. 6 in the Gates ...
Gaming for good, first-time HCII team raises over $5,000 for the kids
NEWSTeam “Carnage Melon” had lofty goals for its first time participating in the Extra Life charity gaming marathon, but it unlocked the $5,000 badge with an hour to spare....