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Harrison Profiled in Pittsburgh Magazine
The March 2014 issue of Pittsburgh Magazine featured a Q&A with HCII Assistant Professor Chris Harrison. In the article, Harrison disc...
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Bigham Named Sloan Research Fellow
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named HCII Assistant Professor Jeffrey Bigham a a winner of a 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship.
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Cassell Assumes Associate Vice Provost Responsibilities
Justine Cassell, the Charles M.
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Das, Laput Advance to Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finals
HCII Ph.D. students Sauvik Das and Gierad Laput advanced to the finals of the 2014 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) for their proposa...
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Klatzky Earns Charles J. Queenan Professorship of Psychology
Roberta Klatzky, professor of psychology with an appointment in the HCII, will receive the Charles J. Queenan Professorship of Psychology ...
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Forlizzi Named to CHI Academy
Jodi Forlizzi, associate professor of human-computer interaction and design, has been named to the CHI Academy — an honorary group of indi...
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Apple's Mac Still Influences, 30 Years After Debut
The HCII's Brad Myers (bottom, right) and Jim Morris (top, right) were featured in a recent Associated Press article assessing the impact ...
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Carnegie Mellon Leads Multi-University Project To Improve Web and Cloud Computing Accessibility
The U.S. Department of Education is sponsoring a five-year, $3.7 million project led by Carnegie Mellon University to develop methods that...
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Carnegie Mellon, Temple Researchers Offer Fresh Perspective To Improve Learning by Taming Instructional Complexity
From using concrete or abstract materials to giving immediate or delayed feedback, there are rampant debates over the best teaching strate...
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Dow and André Received HCOMP Notable Paper Award
A paper by Steven Dow, assistant professor of HCII, and former HCII postdoc Paul André, “Community Clustering: Leveraging an Academic Crow...
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Carnegie Mellon-Disney Motion Tracking Technology Is Precise, Inexpensive, Fast
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research Pittsburgh have devised a motion tracking technology that could eliminate mu...
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HCII Alums Boost CMU Hackathon Performance
Three alumni of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s Masters Program — Min Zhao, Diana Chen and Asim Mittal — helped Carnegie Mellon...
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Hong Named PopTech Fellow
PopTech, a global social innovation incubator and thought leadership network, has named Jason Hong, associate professor in the Human-Compu...
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HCII Ph.D. Students Win Best Paper Award at UbiComp
PhD students Sauvik Das and Eiji Hayashi, along with their advisor Jason Hong, won a best paper award at the 2013 ACM International Joint ...
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MHCI Alumni Develop the Trance App, The Social Dancefloor
MHCI alumni Julien Altieri, Harper LaFave, Marwa Muhammad and Youna Yang designed and created the Trance App as a way for “letting dancer...
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Most Internet Users Seek Anonymity Online
A new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project and Carnegie Mellon University finds that most Internet users would like to be ...
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Myers Once Again Wins “Most Influential” Award
Brad A. Myers, professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will be honored for the second year in a row as the author of a Most...
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Myers To Lead Multi-University NSF Grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded researchers Brad Myers (Carnegie Mellon University), Margaret M.
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Three HCII PhD Students Win Awards During International Conferences
HCII students Martina Rau, Samantha Finkelstein, and Yanjin Long are first authors on three award-winning papers during recent internation...
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PhD Student Will Odom’s Work on Digital Legacy Highlighted in ScienceNews
PhD student Will Odom’s work on digital legacy, and in particular digital legacy as it relates to bereavement in this technological age, i...