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VizLens –An Interactive Smartphone App for the Blind
NEWSThink about the number of electronic appliances you encounter on a daily basis – using a microwave, adjusting the thermostat in your home, or buying a snack from the office vending machine...
ViBand Wins Best Paper at UIST 2016
NEWSHuman-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. students Robert Xiao and Gierad Laput along with Assistant Professor Chris Harrison won a Best Paper for their smartwatch sensing project ViBand ...
Karen Holtzblatt on Women in Tech
NEWSWomen in Tech Discussion 6 October at 6:30 PM....
HCII Ph.D. Jennifer Olsen Recognized as Siebel Scholar
NEWSJennifer Olsen, a fifth year Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), will be joining five other Carnegie Mellon University students as a recipient of the 2017 Sie...
Twitch Plays Game Design: Audience Participation in Games
NEWSTo anyone who has played a family board game or turned on a video game with a group of friends in the basement, the idea of watching games can be as common as actually playing them. In som...
Guo Receives Honorable Mention at MobileHCI 2016
NEWSAnhong Guo, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), received an Honorable Mention at the 2016 MobileHCI conference in Florence, Italy. His paper, "Exploring Til...
EM-Sense Wins Fast Company Innovation by Design Award
NEWSEM-Sense, a technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research for automatically identifying an electrical or electromagnetic device that a person is touching, is the s...
Kraut Receives NSF Grant in Support of Online Communities
NEWSDespite the existence of successful online groups, the majority of newly created ones fail. They don’t survive, fail to attract enough digital users, or don’t meet goals their founders set...
METALS Capstone Sponsor, MARi, finalist in Reach Higher Learning Career App Challenge
NEWSIt's not everyday that a Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) capstone project brings you to the White House to present your work, but that's what happened for Masters of Educationa...
Decimal Point: Can Having Fun Increase Learning?
NEWSWhen it comes to learning math, how much fun you are having is rarely factored into the equation. That isn't to say that game designers have not tried to turn instruction into more engagin...
HCII Takes Home Best Paper Award at UMAP 2016
NEWSCan past learning activities predict differences in individual student success? A recent project with researchers from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) set out to answer jus...
The HCII Leads Discussion for Future Design Research Organization
NEWSHuman-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) faculty John Zimmerman joined scholars and professionals from across the United States and Canada for an April meeting discussing the possible n...