News
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Harrison Named Packard Fellow
HCII Assistant Professor Chris Harrison joined 17 of the nation's most innovative early career scientists and engineers as a recipient of ...
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HCII Marks 20th Anniversary With Weekend Celebration
More than 250 faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute will gather this weekend to celebra...
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Hong Leads Effort to Give Apps Privacy Grade
Smartphones wouldn't be so smart without their apps, yet many free apps pinpoint a user's location to deliver targeted ads or share contac...
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MHCI Students Top HackNC
One MHCI team won first place and another received an award at HackNC2014, a software and hardware hackathon at the University of North Ca...
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Future Interfaces Group Featured in Wired
Smartwatches are growing in popularity, but they’re just small enough to make navigating the interface annoying.
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MHCI Team Takes Honors in CMU iOS App Challenge
Everyone’s been in that situation: You go out for a meal with friends or co-workers and chaos arrives with the check. Someone pays too lit...
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Kittur, Rzeszotarski Win First Prize at 3 Rivers Venture Fair
Assistant Professor Aniket Kittur and Ph.D.
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Decimal Game Helps Kids Get the Point
Kids may not always want to do their math homework, but they can’t seem to put down video games like Minecraft or Angry Birds.
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Koedinger To Lead NSF-Funded LearnSphere Project
HCII Professor Ken Koedinger will lead a five-year, $5 million early implementation project sponsored by the National Science Foundation t...
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Tiramisu on WTAE-TV
The HCII’s Tiramisu project made headlines as part of the Port Authority of Allegheny County’s announcement that 25 percent of its bus rou...
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Dey Weighs In on iPhone 6
Want to know if the iPhone 6 is worth it? HCII Director and Associate Professor Anind Dey recently told Pittsburgh’s CBS affiliate that it...
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New HCII Director Is Ready To Get Started
In the early 1970s in a small town near Vancouver, a young Anind Dey wrote his first computer program on a Timex Sinclair computer under t...
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HCII Team Rocks Pretty Good Race
The HCII trounced the competition in this year’s School of Computer Science Coach Tomayko Pretty Good Race, held Friday, Sept. 5. Now in i...
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Hammer, Harrison Among WEF Young Scientists
The HCII's Jessica Hammer and Chris Harrison were among 30 exceptional young scientists under the age of 40 recognized at the World Econom...
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Rosé, Cassell Discuss Google, CMU Collaboration on WESA-FM
HCII Associate Professor Carolyn Rosé and Professor Justine Cassell recently appeared on WESA-FM, Pittsburgh’s NPR affiliate, to discuss C...
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Myers Among Authors of “Most Influential” Paper
For the third year in a row, HCII Professor Brad Myers will be among the authors honored with the Most Influential Paper award from a deca...
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Google Sponsors Research To Improve Effectiveness of Online Education
HCII faculty will play a large role in a new Google-sponsored initiative to unlock the educational potential of massive open online course...
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Carnegie Mellon Creates Programming Library for Developing Interactive Web Pages in JavaScript
Human-Computer Interaction Institute researchers have collaborated with Adobe Research to create a new open-source JavaScript library that...
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Hong's Startup Profiled in Post-Gazette
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently profiled Wombat Security Technologies, a spin-off company founded by HCII Associate Professor Jason H...
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Koedinger Profiled in SCS Magazine
Want to know more about what makes HCII Professor Ken Koedinger tick? What attracted him to Carnegie Mellon? What he does for fun? Check o...