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Sara Kiesler Awarded ACM SIGCHI’s Lifetime Achievement Award
This year the Association of Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) presented its Lifetime...
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Ian Li Wins Smiley Award
PhD student Ian Li wins the 2009 SCS Smiley Award for innovation in technology-assisted person-to-person communication for his project Gra...
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Ron Salden and Vincent Aleven Win Best Paper Award at the Cognitive Science 2008 Conference
Ron Salden and Vincent Aleven of the HCI Institute, together with colleagues Alexander Renkl, and Rolf Schwonke from the University of Fre...
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Jodi Forlizzi, John Zimmerman, Anind Dey’s “Kind Technology” Featured in Spirit Magazine
In Southwest Airlines Spirit magazine special issue on technology, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and CMU were featured as cente...
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Chris Harrison’s Work Awarded Honorable Mention in the NSF’s Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2008
Chris Harrison’s visualization work was selected as runner up (honorable mention) in the illustration category of the NSF/Science 2008 Sci...
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Masters of HCI Program One of the Top 10 Innovative Graduate Schools
The Masters of HCI program was featured in an article in ComputerWorld, as one of the top 10 innovative graduate schools for producing top...
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Dan Sieworek Speaks at 50-year Anniversary of University of Michigan Computer Science Department
HCII department head Daniel P. Sieworek, ECE faculty Rob A. Rutenbar, and former ECE faculty member John P. Shen were featured speakers a...
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Randy Pausch Recognized by SIGSE
Randy Pausch is recognized by SIGSE for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education. The award will be presented at the 39th S...
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Randy Pausch Wins Karlstrom Award
Randy Pausch is selected as the winner of the 2007 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award: “For his outstanding creative c...
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JJ Cadiz at Microsoft
Carnegie Mellon Alumnus, JJ Cadiz, is now Program Manager on Bill Gates’ technology assistance team at Microsoft.
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Randy Pausch Elected to 2007 Class of ACM Fellows
Randy Pausch is elected to the 2007 class of ACM Fellows. The ACM Fellow program was established by the ACM Council in June 1993 to recogn...
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Dual Master’s Degree in Human-Computer Interaction Between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Madeira
PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Madeira in Portugal will launch a joint program this fall for a dual master’s ...
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Jodi Forlizzi Awarded Habermann Chair
Congratulations to Jodi Forlizzi one of HCII’s rising stars, for being awarded the A. Nico Habermann Chair in the School of Computer...
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HCII Collaborates with University of Madeira, Portugal
Beginning in August 2007, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute will extend its presence to Europe by embarking on a new and exciting c...
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2004 MHCI Capstone Project Featured in Several Publications
Roadcasting is a system that allows anyone to have their own radio station, broadcast among cars in an ad-hoc network. It uses listener fe...
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Andrew Ko, Htet Htet Aung, and Brad Myers Win Best Paper Award at ICSE'05
Andrew J. Ko, Htet Htet Aung, and Brad A. Myers won the Best Paper Award at the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICS...
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Bonnie John Elected to the CHI Academy
Bonnie John has been elected to the CHI Academy, an honorary group, each of whom has made extensive contributions to the study of HCI and ...
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Vincent Aleven, Bruce McLaren, Ido Roll, and Ken Koedinger Win Best Paper Award at ITS 2004
Vincent Aleven, Bruce McLaren, Ido Roll, and Ken Koedinger win the Best Paper Award during the Seventh International Conference on Intelli...
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Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers, Htet Htet Aung, and Edmund F. LoPresti Win the Best Paper Award at ACM ASSETS'04
The title of the winning paper is “Text Entry from Power Wheelchairs: EdgeWrite for Joysticks and Touchpads”.
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Five Faculty Receive New Grants
Bonnie John, Effective Team Support--NASASara Kiesler, Robotic Assistants for the Elderly--NSFChristian Lebiere, ACT-R--NavyRandy Pausch, ...