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CMU@CHI: HCII, Microsoft Research Explore Slow Technology
NEWSStoring and instantly accessing thousands of photos online has become a common luxury, but sometimes the sheer size of these photo archives can be intimidating. Researchers from the HCII a...
CMU@CHI: Kinetica Converts Tabular Data Into Touch-Friendly Format
NEWSSpreadsheets may have been the original killer app for personal computers, but data tables don’t play to the strengths of multi-touch devices like tablets. So HCII researchers developed a ...
Mankoff Co-Authors Chronic Lyme Disease Study
NEWSChronic Lyme disease is associated with a poorer quality of life than most other chronic illnesses, according to a new comprehensive patient survey by LymeDisease.org and HCII Associate Pr...
Cassell, Koedinger Featured at World Economic Forum
NEWSCharles M. Geschke Director of the HCII Justine Cassell and HCII Professor Ken Koedinger gave presentations at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this past Ja...
CMU Plans Strong Showing at CHI2014
NEWSWatch out, Toronto — Carnegie Mellon is on its way. More than 50 CMU faculty members, graduate students and researchers are on the program for CHI2014, the Association for Computing Machin...
HCII Research Cited in WEF’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies List
NEWSThe World Economic Forum has released its 2014 list of the Top 10 Emerging Technologies, and it cites the HCII’s pioneering research in one of those technologies — the quantified self....
Carnegie Mellon Leads Multi-University Project To Improve Web and Cloud Computing Accessibility
NEWSThe U.S. Department of Education is sponsoring a five-year, $3.7 million project led by Carnegie Mellon University to develop methods that enable people with disabilities to take full adva...
Carnegie Mellon, Temple Researchers Offer Fresh Perspective To Improve Learning by Taming Instructional Complexity
NEWSFrom using concrete or abstract materials to giving immediate or delayed feedback, there are rampant debates over the best teaching strategies to use. But, in reality, improving education ...
Dow and André Received HCOMP Notable Paper Award
NEWSA paper by Steven Dow, assistant professor of HCII, and former HCII postdoc Paul André, “Community Clustering: Leveraging an Academic Crowd to Form Coherent Conference Sessions,” received ...
Bigham Named Sloan Research Fellow
NEWSThe Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named HCII Assistant Professor Jeffrey Bigham a a winner of a 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship....
Carnegie Mellon-Disney Motion Tracking Technology Is Precise, Inexpensive, Fast
NEWSResearchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research Pittsburgh have devised a motion tracking technology that could eliminate much of the annoying lag that occurs in existing vid...