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HCII Professor Robert Kraut and his co-authors earned the CSCW's most recent Lasting Impact Award for their 1988 paper, "Patterns of Contact and Communication in Scientific Research Collaboration."

Kraut Earns Lasting Impact Award for Paper on Proximity's Role in Collaboration

Zoom, Slack and Google Docs may be ubiquitous in today's workplace, but that wasn't the case 35 years ago. Yet many of the technologies un...

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Brad Myers has been named the new Charles M. Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, where he has been a faculty member since 1987.

Myers Named HCII Director

Martial Hebert, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS), has appointed Brad Myers as the new Charles M. ...

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Jason Hong

Hong Named 2022 ACM Fellow

Professor Jason Hong from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science has been recognized a fellow of the Association for Co...

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SCS faculty members are part of a CMU team that received an NSF Future of Work grant to investigate how AI-augmented learning can help accelerate student progress in community college IT courses. (Photo courtesy of CCAC.)

CMU Professors Awarded NSF Future of Work Grant

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has announced that a team of professors from the School of Computer Science (SCS) and the Heinz College o...

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Carnegie Mellon University Launches Center for Transformational Play

Games can entertain. They can bring people together. They can transport players to new worlds, test skills and strategies, and encourage p...

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Bloomwood Stories, an HCII-designed video game that helps members of underresourced or historically marginalized populations feel more confident handling health issues, won the Best Student Award at last month's International Conference on Meaningful Play.

Video Game Focused on Community Health Receives Award at Meaningful Play Conference

One of the most enduring pieces of advice from beloved children's television host Mister Rogers is to look for the helpers. 

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group photo of the 2022 summer researchers on the stairs in the NSH atrium

HCII Seeks Applicants for 2023 Summer Research Program

Application now available for Summer 2023 About the Program Carnegie Mellon's Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Human-Computer ...

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2 side by side images: left side has 2 neuroscience students writing on whiteboard, right side has screen capture of a videogame. The words "Brain Play" are in the center of the graphic.

Neuroscientists and Game Designers Play Well Together

Jessica Hammer thinks the most important technology for making games is the brain.

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CMU and Simcoach Games have teamed up to give high school students interested in game design on-the-job training and a first step toward a career in the field. (Photo courtesy of Simcoach Games.)

CMU Helps Simcoach Games Train Next Generation of Change Innovators

Carnegie Mellon University and Simcoach Games have teamed up to give high school students interested in game design on-the-job training an...

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Research into generative models that can create images like these sinister cats is just one example of some spooky research happening in SCS.

Spooky SCS: A Round-Up of Chilling Research

Mutant cats, troll hunting and walking through spiderwebs in a haunted forest — some work in the School of Computer Science is downright s...

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