News
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Rzeszotarski Named Siebel Scholar
HCII Ph.D. student Jeff Rzeszotarski has been named a 2016 Siebel Scholar for his outstanding academic achievement and demonstrated leader...
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Faculty Featured on "Encounters With HCI Pioneers"
Three HCII faculty members are included in "Encounters With HCI Pioneers," a new website that aims to draw attention to human-computer int...
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Study Shows Information Is Easier To Learn When Composed of Familiar Elements
People have more difficulty recalling the string of letters BIC, IAJ, FKI, RSU and SAF than FBI, CIA, JFK, IRS and USA. The well-establish...
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HCII, Heinz Researchers Win SOUPS Privacy Award
Chances are you use the Internet nearly every day. But what do you really know about how the Internet works? And how does that knowledge a...
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HCII Team Earns Honorable Mention in Best Paper Competition
A team of HCII researchers received an Honorable Mention award in the National Security Agency's (NSA) Third Annual Best Scientific Cybers...
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Hong Takes on Cybersecurity in Slate
While you might breathe a sigh of relief when you hear that classified data wasn't stolen in a data breach or cyberattack, that news isn't...
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Hammer Earns Okawa Foundation Research Grant
HCII Assistant Professor Jessica Hammer has received a 2015 Okawa Foundation Research Grant to support her research, "Games for Impact: A ...
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IoT Research Makes Media Waves
The HCII is leading the charge as Carnegie Mellon researchers work with colleagues at other universities to turn the CMU campus into a liv...
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Bigham Urges Increased Accessibility Education for Developers
Computing has become more accessible to people with disabilities in the past 25 years, but it still has a long way to go before it becomes...
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LearnLab Summer School Provides Hands-On Learning Experience
When Bill Buttlar, a professor and associate dean in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's (UIUC) College of Engineering, and h...
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Koedinger Talks LearnSphere in Hechinger Report, U.S. News & World Report
"LearnSphere, a new $5 million federally funded project at Carnegie Mellon University, aims to become 'the biggest open repository of educ...
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HCII Leads Charge in New Google-Funded Project
Carnegie Mellon University is turning its campus into a living laboratory for a multi-university expedition to create a robust platform to...
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Essential EDigs
HCII Associate Professor Jennifer Mankoff recently appeared on Pittsburgh's NPR affiliate, 90.5 WESA-FM, to discuss EDigs, a new CMU resou...
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Baloonr Helps Teams Get Ideas Off the Ground
Ask a roomful of kindergarteners if they're artists, and all of them will unanimously boom "YES!" Ask adults, though, and the story change...
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HCII To Welcome New Faculty in August
The HCII will add three assistant professors to its world-class faculty in August, when Geoff Kaufman and Chinmay Kulkarni will join the c...
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MHCI Students Work on Solutions for First Responders
A team of students in the Masters in Human-Computer Interaction program will spend the summer immersed in the world of firefighters, polic...
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Hammer Featured in "Gaming the System"
A recent article in U.S.News &World Report explored whether video games can help solve public health problems.
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Nala in the News
Last summer, a team of HCII master's student teamed up with the Animal Rescue League to create a website that helps members of the communi...
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Snackbot Featured in the Harvard Business Review
The Harvard Business Review's June cover story, "When Your Boss Wears Metal Pants," investigates the social constraints that have to be ov...
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HCII Students Envision Next Big Startup Ideas
Want to go to an awesome concert tonight but don't want to go alone? Or maybe you aspire to making your own gourmet meal but find cookbook...