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CHI Preview: CMU Leads All Institutions in Accepted Papers
NEWSIt's still two months away, but Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute is already anticipating a strong showing at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) CHI2015 c...
HCII Team Named Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalists
NEWSHCII Ph.D. students Xiang Anthony Chen and Adrian de Freitas have been named finalists for the 2015-2016 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for their project "Snap-To-It: Using Mobile Cameras ...
HCII Director Elected to CHI Academy
NEWSDey Is Institute's Eighth Academy Member HCII Director and Associate Professor Anind Dey has been elected to the CHI Academy — an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial c...
Dow To Explore Collective Innovation Through NSF CAREER Award
NEWSToday's big problems — becoming more energy independent or caring for an aging population — can't be solved in a vacuum. And while the Internet makes it easy to find and engage large group...
Anderson To Attend White House Workshop
NEWSJohn R. Anderson, the Richard King Mellon University Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, will participate in the White House Workshop on Bridging Neuroscience ...
Schwarz Named to Forbes "30 Under 30"
NEWSHCII Ph.D. student Julia Schwarz has been named to Forbes' "30 Under 30 in 2015 Science" list, which recognizes the movers and shakers who are doing everything from bringing physics to med...
HCII Celebrates Tiniest New Member
NEWSThe HCII and Entertainment Technology Center's students, faculty and staff gathered recently to mark the impending arrival of the departments' newest — and youngest — member. Assistant Pro...
Hong Receives HCII Career Development Fellowship
NEWSHCII Associate Professor Jason Hong has been awarded the HCII Career Development Fellowship for his research accomplishments and contributions to both the HCII and the university....
Think Outside the Box? Not So Fast.
NEWSTraditional thinking holds that great design concepts stem from sources distant from the original problem. Velcro, for example, came into being when civil engineer George de Mestral had to...
Ringly Makes Jewelry Smart
NEWSNo one wants to be that person constantly looking at a smartphone to check for important text messages or updates. Or the one whose annoying ringtone interrupts a quiet lecture hall. But w...
Here's to Another 20 Years!
NEWSHCII Community Gathers to Celebrate Institute's 20th Anniversary The HCII threw open its doors and welcomed more than 275 of its nearest and dearest back to campus Nov. 14–16 to celebrate...
Rosé Leads CMU Efforts in $1.6 Million Digital Learning Research Network
NEWSAssociate Professor of LTI and HCII Carolyn Rosé will lead Carnegie Mellon's contributions to the new Digital Learning Research Network (dLRN), a collaboration of 10 institutions across th...