April 18, 2018
Sara Kiesler, Hillman Chair Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been elected to the American ... Read more
April 16, 2018
Using mixed-reality to reimagine the classroom from both sides -- an Intelligent Science Station for students and smart glasses for teachers -- earned Gold Awards for an HCII PhD student and Postdoc ... Read more
April 14, 2018
“It’s like all of March Madness in one weekend,” said Patrick Carrington, postdoctoral research fellow at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, of the National Wheelchair Basketball Tournament (NWBT ... Read more
March 20, 2018
Lining Yao came of age in a small village in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Like most families in her town, she
March 19, 2018
Uprooting beets on an augmented reality farm could soon help recovering stroke victims improve their motor skills if a team of human-computer interaction students receives enough votes by tomorrow night. The team of three Carnegie Mellon HCI students ... Read more
March 17, 2018
Look closer -- the sixteen squares of a quilt found in 3513 Newell-Simon Hall share a quarter-century of technological developments and the birth of the wearable computing industry.
The quilt, which belongs to ... Read more
March 13, 2018
Daniel P. Siewiorek, the Buhl University Professor of
March 12, 2018
For several of the majors in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, the spring semester is synonymous with capstone projects. And now that spring break is upon us, capstone projects are well underway for Carnegie Mellon University students in the ... Read more
February 28, 2018
From undergrads to PhDs, more than 110 students attended the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s informal networking event, HCII Connect, last week. The third annual event was held on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 in the Atrium of Newell-Simon ... Read more
February 15, 2018
School of Computer Science faculty members Chris Harrison, Bryan Parno, Andrew Pavlo and Andreas Pfenning have received 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships, which honor
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Human-Computer Interaction Institute alumni may have noticed that messages from the alumni listserv are coming from a new, yet familiar name. The HCII team is excited to announce Jessica Stanley as the HCII’s ... Read more
January 18, 2018
A new, five-year, $2.5 million research grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation has been awarded to a team led by Carnegie Mellon University assistant professor Amy Ogan to study teacher learning in high-need settings ... Read more
December 20, 2017
Thanks to our graduates in the New York City area who joined Lee Hillman, executive director ... Read more
December 15, 2017
First-year Human-Computer Interaction PhD student Stephanie Valencia Valencia was named to the ... Read more
December 14, 2017
Tiny lights flashed beside a cardboard replica of the Waterfront smokestacks as a new special topics course wrapped up the semester with final project demos in the Kiesler-Kraut Commons lobby of Newell-Simon Hall on Thursday, December 7.
The new Carnegie Mellon ... Read more
December 8, 2017
Ken Koedinger, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and Department of Psychology, accepted the Hillman Professorship of ... Read more
December 1, 2017
Team “Carnage Melon” had lofty goals for its first time participating in the Extra Life charity gaming marathon, but it unlocked the $5,000 badge with an hour to spare.
The group ... Read more
November 29, 2017
Four Master of Human-Computer Interaction alumnae were selected to lead an HCI panel discussion at the 2017 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in October. Class of 2011 graduates Christie Auw, Nisha Desai, Anubhuti Jain, and Syp Vandy Siligato presented, “ ... Read more
November 13, 2017
Chris Harrison, assistant professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named the A. Nico Habermann Chair in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
The Habermann Career Development Professorship was established in 1998 in ... Read more
November 8, 2017
Andrew Moore, dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, has appointed Jodi Forlizzi as the new Charles M. Geschke Director of the
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