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| Welcome to the Human-Computer Interaction Institute
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Our Mission:
To understand and create technology that harmonizes with and improves human capabilities, goals, and social environments through interdisciplinary research and education in design, computer science, and behavioral and social sciences.
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Our Institutes's Video: A short video helping to explain the HCII's work is available here. (35.8MB; requires Quicktime 7.0 or later) |
Our Masters Program's Video: A short video explaining the Master in HCI
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The Masters of HCI program was featured in an article in
ComputerWorld, as one of the top 10 innovative graduate schools for
producing top quality IT professionals. [more]
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In Southwest Airlines Spirit magazine special issue on
technology, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and CMU were
featured as centers of research for "kind technology". The research of
Jodi Forlizzi, John Zimmerman and Anind Dey were highlighted in this
article. [more]
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Chris Harrison's visualization work was selected as
runner up (honorable mention) in the Illustration category of the
NSF/Science 2008 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
and will appear in this month's issue of Science.
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Salden and Vincent Aleven of the HCI Institute, together with colleagues
Alexander Renkl, and Rolf Schwonke from the University of Freiburg, Germany,
won a best paper award at the
Cognitive Science 2008 Conference for their paper entitled
“Worked examples and tutored problem solving: redundant or synergistic forms
of support?” This prize is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (US
Departmant of Education), and given to the best full paper submission to the
2008 Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society on a topic directly
related to cognitive science, educational practice and subject-matterlearning. [more]
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