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    LearnLab Summer School Provides Hands-On Learning Experience

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    When Bill Buttlar, a professor and associate dean in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's (UIUC) College of Engineering, and his colleagues were charged with revamping their gr...

  • Anind Dey and Adrian deFreitas

    HCII Leads Charge in New Google-Funded Project

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    Carnegie Mellon University is turning its campus into a living laboratory for a multi-university expedition to create a robust platform to enable Internet-connected sensors, gadgets and bu...

  • Amanda Greenberg and Noah Bornstein

    Baloonr Helps Teams Get Ideas Off the Ground

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    Ask a roomful of kindergarteners if they're artists, and all of them will unanimously boom "YES!" Ask adults, though, and the story changes dramatically. Maybe one or two people assert the...

  • Geoff Kaufman, Chinmay Kulkarni and John Stamper

    HCII To Welcome New Faculty in August

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    The HCII will add three assistant professors to its world-class faculty in August, when Geoff Kaufman and Chinmay Kulkarni will join the community and John Stamper will transition from his...

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    MHCI Students Work on Solutions for First Responders

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    A team of students in the Masters in Human-Computer Interaction program will spend the summer immersed in the world of firefighters, police officers and other first responders as part of t...

  • Winning project teams: Salt and Pepper, Locadora and Wander

    HCII Students Envision Next Big Startup Ideas

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    Want to go to an awesome concert tonight but don't want to go alone? Or maybe you aspire to making your own gourmet meal but find cookbooks and online tutorials lack the hands-on training ...

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    EDigs Helps Apartment Hunters Find the Perfect Rental

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    A new online resource from Carnegie Mellon University researchers seeks to help people find the perfect rental property by using tools such as a machine learning algorithm that can estimat...

  • James Pierce

    CHI2015: Pierce and Colleagues Offer Critical Take on "Critical Design"

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    To the casual reader, the fact that the term "critical design" is slipping into the HCI vernacular might not seem like a big deal. But HCII Ph.D. student James Pierce and his co-authors of...

  • This image shows the Earth Shake game screen on the top, and children playing the game on the bottom.

    CHI2015: Learning in the Real World Tops Learning From a Tablet

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    You see it in headlines with more and more frequency: "Local School Provides Tablets for All Students." But though screen technologies are ubiquitous and certainly appealing for children, ...

  • MHCI students standing in front of their Lantern poster at CHI.

    MHCI Team Takes Second Place in CHI Student Design Competition

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    A team of students in the Masters of Human Computer Interaction program took second place last week in the 13th annual CHI Student Design Competition....

  • This image shows the prototype before and after crowd workers update it.

    CHI2015: Apparition Harnesses the Crowd To Create Real-Time Prototyping

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    When designing anything — a new video game or the next-big-thing smartphone app — prototyping is key. It allows designers to quickly iterate and gather feedback, but the time it takes to c...

  • A photo posted to Facebook with questions from a visually impaired user.

    CHI2015: Social Microvolunteering Uses Facebook to Do Good

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    Photos of food. Check-ins at the gym. Political rants and memes prominently featuring cats. They fill up newsfeeds on social media, to the extent that the good social media can do is often...