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Congratulations to Jodi Forlizzi one of HCII's rising stars, for being awarded the A. Nico Habermann Chair n the School of Computer Science. [SCS Faculty Awards]
Randy Pausch is selected as the winner of the 2007 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award: "For his outstanding creative contributions to the art of teaching and mentoring and for the innovative Alice programming environment with which novices can create interactive 3D experiences." [ACM Press Release]
Carnegie Mellon Alumnus, JJCadiz, now Program Manager on Bill Gates' technology assistance team at Microsoft... more
Our PhD student Darren Gergle co-authored a new book on HCI design
Roberta Klatzky and her colleagues are working on a device to help visually impaired people navigate new surroundings.

Homenet featured in NY Times, USA Today

Students' work in HCI Projects course becomes TI StudyCards

Dan Siewiorek, HCII Director, elected Univ Professor ... more

Jodi Forlizzi in Loop: AIGA Journal of Interaction Design

Researchers develop context-aware mobile phone...more

Centenary College in New Jersey is using educational technology developed by Professor Richard Scheines to revise its curriculum... more

John R. Anderson to receive the David Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Formal Analysis of Human Cognition... more

Students from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute recently won the Computer Human Interaction Live Interactionary Competition... more

Peter Brusilovsky is a keynote speaker at the Italian and German national HCI conferences this fall... more

Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) doctoral student Santosh Mathan and Associate Professor Kenneth Koedinger received the John Self Prize for best student paper at the 11th Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) conference in Sydney, Australia, for their work "Recasting the Feedback Debate: Benefits of Tutoring Error Detection and Correction Skills." A paper entitled "Tutorial Dialog System to Support Self-Explanation: Evaluation and Open Questions," by School of Computer Science researchers Vincent Aleven, Octav Popescu and Koedinger, was a finalist for the AIED 2003 best paper award.

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