
Digital Exhibit Labels: Enhancement or Distraction for Museum Visitors
Does a touchscreen display distract visitors from the cultural museum artifacts it supports? A team of learning scientists and computer ...

HCII at CHI 2018
Over 3,000 of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to Montréal this week for CHI 2018, the ACM CHI Confer...

Sara Kiesler Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Sara Kiesler, Hillman Chair Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has be...

PhD and Postdoc Win Gold Awards at Reimagine Education Competition
Using mixed-reality to reimagine the classroom from both sides -- an Intelligent Science Station for students and smart glasses for teache...

HCII Team Tests Fitness Tracker for Wheelchair Athletes at NWBT
“It’s like all of March Madness in one weekend,” said Patrick Carrington, postdoctoral research fellow at the Human-Computer Interaction I...

The Shape of Pasta: HCII Assistant Professor Morphs Matter
Lining Yao came of age in a small village in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Like most families in her town, she didn't have a...

Blanket Statements: Covering a Quarter-Century of Wearable Tech
Look closer -- the sixteen squares of a quilt found in 3513 Newell-Simon Hall share a quarter-century of technological developments and th...

Spring Capstones in Full Swing at HCII
For several of the majors in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, the spring semester is synonymous with capstone projects.