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Lining Yao stands in the Morphing Matter Lab holding a white shapeshifting flower

HCII Faculty Yao and Zimmerman to Speak at SXSW2019

Carnegie Mellon University students, faculty and alumni will be among the thousands descending onto Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest ...

Hong, Zhang, Kraut and Siewiorek stand side by side, smiling

New Junior Professorships Honor Two Longtime HCII Faculty Members

Jason Hong and His Wife, Shelley Zhang, Endow Two Junior Professorships The sale of Wombat Security Technologies to Proofpoint Inc. ...

Tom and Lydia Moran stand behind professors Jessica Hammer and Amy Ogan (seated)

Hammer, Ogan Accept Moran Professorships

Jessica Hammer and Amy Ogan, faculty members in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), received the inaugural Thomas and Lydia ...

Kiesler Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Sara Kiesler, Hillman Chair Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has b...

side by side images: left image of a seated person hunched over a desk; right image a line drawing of the person with RFID sensor tags on spine

RFID Tag Arrays Track Body Movements, Shape Changes

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found ways to track body movements and detect shape changes using arrays of radio-frequency i...

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Scaling Up Search for Analogies Could Be Key to Innovation

AI, Crowdsourcing Can Identify Insights That Lead to Breakthroughs Investment in research is at an all-time high, yet the rate of scien...

black and white photo of 2 students and 2 alum on planning committee of Pittsburgh's Racial Justice Summit 2019

CMU Joins Pittsburgh Community at Racial Justice Summit

By Michael Henninger Kevin Jarbo used to take the bus from his apartment in the Hill District, one of Pittsburgh's predominantly black ...

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HCI students win Bose Challenge, Designing for Augmented Reality with Sound

More than 100 Carnegie Mellon University students participated in an on-campus challenge last month, designing solutions for an emerging f...

three PhD students hold paper copies of the Computer Scientist issue of the XRDS magazine, standing in the HCII lobby

PhD students contribute to Fall ACM XRDS issue on The Computer Scientist

Four Ph.D. students from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute contributed to the Fall 2018 issue of XRDS (Crossroads), the ACM Magazin...

2018 Summer Research Program Group Photo

Human-Computer Interaction Institute Seeks Applicants for Summer Research Program

Information on the upcoming year is available on the  2020 Summer Research Program website.    Application Dead...