News
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Carnegie Mellon Expands Mobile Learning Project in India
PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University today announced the expansion of its Mobile & Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging ...
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HCII PhD Students Nab Two Top Awards at Yahoo’s Open Hack Day in New York City
Julia Schwarz, Bryan Pendleton, and Chris Harrison hacked together two entries in the 24-hour development period. The team was flown out t...
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Team Wins First Place at UIST 2009 Student Innovation Competition
Julia Schwarz, a first year HCII PhD student, took First Place in the Most Creative category at this year’s ACM UIST Student Innovation Co...
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Chris Harrison Interviewed for The Independent’s “Why touch screens push our buttons”
Chris Harrison, a PhD student in the HCII, was interviewed by The Independent (a British Newspaper) about his work and perspectives on tou...
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Snackbot and Pittsburgh Featured on CBS National News
Snackbot, Boss, the snake robot, and several other robots were featured in a segment about Pittsburgh and the G20 on CBS national news. ...
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Technology Review Features Research by Kostakos on Crowd Wisdom
A Technology Review article discusses work by Vassilis Kostakos about online recommendation systems. HCII faculty Nikki Kittur is also int...
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Tribune-Review and ABC News Cover Matthew Kam’s Research
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review describes HCII faculty Matthew Kam’s work using cell phones games to teach English. ABC News also featured a...
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Noboru Matsuda and Ken Koedinger Receive $1.9 Million Grant from DoED and NSF
HCII faculty members Noboru Matsuda and Ken Koedinger (with William Cohen at MLD and Gabriel Stylianides at Pitt) received new grants from...
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Bruce McLaren Receives $1.3 Million Department of Education Grant
HCII faculty member Bruce McLaren received a new grant from the U.S. Department of Education IES program (Institute of Education Science),...
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Carnegie Mellon Announces Beta Release of Alice 3
Carnegie Mellon University today announced the beta release of Alice 3, the latest version of an innovative software environment designed ...
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Vincent Aleven and Nikol Rummel Receive One Million Dollar NSF Grant
HCII faculty members Vincent Aleven and Nikol Rummel received a new grant, from the NSF REESE program (Research and Evaluation on Educatio...
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HCII Graduate Student Martina Rau Wins Best Student Paper Award at the 2009 AIED Conference
First-year HCII graduate student Martina Rau wins the Best Student Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intellig...
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Teaching Fellowships in Africa Created to Honor Randy Pausch
Electronic Arts, in partnership with Teach With Africa, has initiated a fellowship program that honors Randy Pausch and addresses the dire...
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Multiple Media Outlets Cover Eric Paulos’s Research
The Economist, Public Radio International and WBUR’s Here & Now have all written about HCII faculty Eric Paulos’s research on how mobi...
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HCII Spinoff Carnegie Learning Announces International Partnership and Multiple Educational Technology Honors
Carnegie Learning Inc. has announced a three-year partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and universities in Mexico, Central America,...
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Carnegie Mellon Develops Java Programming Tools Employing Human-Centered Design Techniques
Researchers from the School of Computer Science have developed two new tools to help computer programmers select from among thousands of o...
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Wired, Popular Mechanics, Technology Review Cover Harrison and Hudson’s Physically Deformable Multitouch Displays
Numerous publications have written about HCII PhD student Chris Harrison and faculty Scott Hudson’s research on deformable multitouch disp...
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Carnegie Mellon/HCII, Pitt Receive $25 Million Federal Grant to Study How People Learn
The National Science Foundation has renewed a five-year $25 million grant to continue the work of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Cente...
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CMU Had a Great Presence at CHI 2009
Authors from Carnegie Mellon and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, in particular, had a great presence at CHI 2009, the premier co...