News
"Understanding Online Communities" Earns SCS Allen Newell Research Award
NEWSFor decades, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Robert Kraut has studied how people work together — first in actual physical spaces, and later moving into virtual and...
HCII Team Takes Second Place in Microsoft’s College Puzzle Challenge
NEWSFor ten uninterrupted hours on Saturday, April 9, teams of college students raced to solve challenging puzzles that tested their skills in computer engineering, computer science and mathem...
Explore, Refine, Persuade: HCII Faculty Take Playtesting to the Next Level
NEWSThe last time you sat down to play a game — either the tabletop or video variety — how much thought did you give to how the game was developed? Did you think about the creators' motivation...
CMU, HCII Help Organize Event To Discuss Pittsburgh's Future
NEWSAndrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science, will join a who's who of Pittsburgh to discuss how to optimize the city's future at Opt412, an afternoon of thought-prov...
HCII Heads West for CHI 2016
NEWSInstitute Honored With Seven "Best of CHI" Awards Carnegie Mellon University has a strong presence in Silicon Valley, but the university's numbers will be bolstered when members of the Hu...
Cassell Named Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh
NEWSJustine Cassell, School of Computer Science associate dean for technology strategy and impact and former HCII director, has been named a corresponding fellow of the Royal Society of Edinbu...
HCII Team Takes First Place in SCS Puzzlehunt
NEWSThe HCII's "Human-Puzzle Interaction" team took top honors in the School of Computer Science's recent Puzzlehunt. Held as part of SCS Day — a celebration of diversity across the entire sch...
Hong Delivers Keynote Address at ICISSP 2016
NEWSHCII Associate Professor Jason Hong delivered the keynote address at the 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy last month in Rome. Held annually, ICISSP ...
Xiao Among CMU's Winning Codebreaker Challenge Team
NEWSHCII Ph.D. student Robert Xiao was one of three Carnegie Mellon University students to finish in the top 25 in the National Security Agency's Codebreaker Challenge....
Faculty Earn Google Research Awards
NEWSFive HCII faculty members have received 2015 Google Faculty Research Awards, which identify and support world-class faculty pursuing cutting-edge research in computer science and related a...
HCII Faculty Among LearnLab Experts Who Participate in NSF Meeting
NEWSThe National Science Foundation recently hosted a three-day conference to celebrate the success of its six Science of Learning Centers, and three HCII faculty members were among the repres...
Kraut Earns 2016 SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement in Research Award
NEWSHerbert A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Robert Kraut has been named the recipient of the 2016 SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement in Research Award. Presented annually by the Asso...