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CMU’s Innovation City Celebrates HCII Students at SXSW
NEWSStudents of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute were among the Carnegie Mellon innovators and spin-off companies featured at Innovation City during the South By Southwest Interactive ...
John Anderson Earns Highest APS Honor
NEWSCarnegie Mellon University’s John R. Anderson — whose human thought and cognition research has revolutionized how we learn — has been selected to receive the Association for Psychological ...
Dow and Settles Investigate Songwriting Chemistry
NEWSA hit song is often the product of co-writers who have great chemistry. But the elements that make the chemistry great aren’t always apparent....
Tool Boosts Success of Online Collaborations By Redistributing the Burdens of Leadership
NEWSThe Web makes it possible for lots of people to collaborate on projects, but it doesn’t make it easy to lead them. A Carnegie Mellon University researcher has developed a new tool that hel...
Analysis Shows Online Songwriters Seek Collaborators With Complementary Skills, Status
NEWSA musical collaboration, be it Rodgers and Hammerstein or Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, requires a mix of shared and complementary traits that is not always obvious. Researchers at Carne...
Research Could Ensure That Crowd Work Becomes a Career Option, Not a Dead End
NEWSCrowdsourcing is an effective way to mobilize people to accomplish tasks on a global scale, but some researchers fear that crowd work for pay could easily become the high-tech equivalent o...
Did Your Smartphone Flashlight Rat You Out? Crowdsourcing Privacy Concerns of Mobile Apps
NEWSPeople are often surprised to learn that popular mobile applications on their smartphones are sharing their location, contact lists and other sensitive information, Carnegie Mellon Univers...
HCII Launches Master’s Program in Learning Science
NEWSA new one-year professional master’s program in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute will train graduates to apply evidence-based learning science research in re-examining the goals of...
Tiramisu App Wins FCC Chairman’s Award
NEWSThe Carnegie Mellon research team that created Tiramisu, a smartphone app that enables transit riders to create realtime information about bus schedules and seating, has won this year’s Fe...
CMU Team Finishes Fourth at Facebook Global Hackathon Finals
NEWSA team of four Carnegie Mellon undergraduates spent 24 hours transforming an idea for a simulation game into reality at Facebook’s Global Hackathon Finals, which began Nov. 30 in Menlo Par...
Myers Among Four CMU Faculty Members Named IEEE Fellows
NEWSFour Carnegie Mellon University faculty members have been named 2013 Fellows of the Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical profession...
Cassell Named AAAS Fellow
NEWSJustine Cassell, the Charles M. Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of two...