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Like the fickle Goldilocks, game players are said to seek a game experience that is not too hard and not too easy, but just challenging enough. Or at least, that has been the general assum...

HCII Professor Chris Harrison and PhD students Gierad Laput and Yang Zhang have unveiled Synthetic Sensors, a sensing abstraction project that allows everyday environments to become smart ...

When you are given a task with a number of possible approaches and no clear requirements, how do you get started? When faced with building software to solve an open-ended problem, it’s oft...

HUMAN-CENTERED TECHNOLOGY COURSES Designing Human-Centered Software 05-391...

The Human-Computer Interaction Institute had a strong presence at the 14th International Web for All (W4A) conference in Perth, Australia, where researchers accepted both the Best Technica...

Have you ever used your skin to adjust the volume for your phone? Can you easily navigate your kitchen appliances without your vision? When was the last time you quickly printed up some fa...

Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. student Cole Gleason will be receiving the 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) for his research applying computer science to increasing a...

The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is excited to announce additional leadership for the Master of Human-Computer Interaction program. MHCI alumnus Lee Hillman will be starting as the...

Human-Computer Interaction Institute Professor Jen Mankoff will present a 20 minute "Andy Talk" on Wednesday at this year's Energy Week, held March 27-31st at Carnegie Mellon. Mankoff is ...

Two Ph.D. students from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute are finalists in the 2017 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. They are one team out of 33 selected as finalists from a pool of ...

Heart patients who have reached end-stage heart failure may have a pump surgically inserted to help blood flow to the rest of the body. This mechanical implant is called a ventricular assi...

Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute is headed to Portland, Oregon, for the 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. CS...