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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...
HCII Alums Boost CMU Hackathon Performance
NEWSThree alumni of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s Masters Program — Min Zhao, Diana Chen and Asim Mittal — helped Carnegie Mellon University teams dominate the competition at the ...
Hong Named PopTech Fellow
NEWSPopTech, a global social innovation incubator and thought leadership network, has named Jason Hong, associate professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, as one of 11 PopTech Sc...
Cassell Assumes Associate Vice Provost Responsibilities
NEWSJustine Cassell, the Charles M. Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and co-director of The Simon Initiative, has taken on additional responsibilities as the uni...
Das, Laput Advance to Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finals
NEWSHCII Ph.D. students Sauvik Das and Gierad Laput advanced to the finals of the 2014 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) for their proposal "Everyday Objects for Physical Space Authenticat...
Klatzky Earns Charles J. Queenan Professorship of Psychology
NEWSRoberta Klatzky, professor of psychology with an appointment in the HCII, will receive the Charles J. Queenan Professorship of Psychology on Wednesday, Feb. 5, in recognition of her outsta...