
Sound, Vibration Recognition Boost Context-Aware Computing
New methods help smart devices detect what’s happening around them Ubicoustics Smart devices can seem dumb if they don’t understand wher...

Student-Created Online Tool Wins $79K Grant from Mozilla
Wick Editor, a free and open-source tool for creating games, animation and interactive media, is the winner of a $79,120 grant from the Mo...

"Innovation by Design" Awards Recognize Several in HCII
Several from Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute were honored by Fast Company in its annual Innovation ...

Ogan Named to World Economic Forum's Young Scientists 2018
Amy Ogan, the Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named t...

Three from HCII named 2018-19 Innovation Fellows
Carnegie Mellon University’s Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship has named Anhong Guo, Ph.D. candidate, Gierad Laput, Ph.D.

Actuation Gives New Dimensions to an Old Material
One of the oldest, most versatile and inexpensive of materials — paper — seemingly springs to life, bending, folding or flattening itself,...

Prototyping Next-Generation Accessibility Tools with Bloomberg
Over the last two years, Bloomberg’s UX team has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University Master of Human-Computer Interaction program an...

BHCI Alumnae Returns to Sponsor Capstone
Aesha Shah had been working at the startup Resy for about a year, so the timing seemed right when she saw Professor Bob Kraut’s email seek...