Excited to virtually welcome our next HCII Seminar guest:
@TimnitGebru
, co-founder
@black_in_ai
🎙️ "The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning and Related Fields and Its Consequences"
🗓️ Friday, April 2
🕜 1:30pm EDT
🔗 Details & livestream URL:
What a gesture! Professor Jason Hong & his wife have endowed 2 new junior professorships
@SCSatCMU
and named them in honor of longtime
@cmuhcii
faculty and mentors to many -- Dan Siewiorek and Robert Kraut. Learn more about this generous
#hci
donation:
Congrats to Assistant Professor Jessica Hammer on receiving an
@NSF
CAREER Award of $550,000 (their most prestigious award for young faculty)! She will use her expertise in
#learningsciences
&
#educationalgames
to improve the
@Twitch
#learning
environment:
Join us Friday! Our next
#HCIISeminarSeries
guest will be
@parastooabtahi
, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
@Princeton
.
🎙️"From Haptic Illusions to Beyond Real Interactions in Virtual Reality"
📅Fri., Jan. 26
🕜1:30pm
📍NSH 1305 + livestream
🔗
Proudly announcing the new
@SCSatCMU
undergraduate degree in Human-Computer Interaction, beginning Fall 2020.🎉
If you're interested in "making technology do the right thing in a way that helps humans, this is the degree for you."
BS in
#HCI
:
Want to develop digital technologies that solve problems and benefit people? SCS this fall will launch a new undergraduate degree in human-computer interaction.
@cmuhcii
@CarnegieMellon
Join us tomorrow for the HCII Seminar Series. We are excited to welcome our virtual guest, Ethan Zuckerman!
🎙️ "The Good Web: Competing Visions for the Future of Social Media" with
@EthanZ
📅 Fri, Jan. 21
🕜 1:30pm
💻 Livestream only
🔗 Details:
This Friday we welcome HCII Seminar Series guest
@amypavel
! Her goal is to make technology-mediated communication more efficient & accessible.
#a11y
🎙️"Human-AI Systems for Making Videos Useful"
📅Fri., Dec. 3
🕜1:30pm EST
📍NSH 1305+livestream
💻Details:
We're hosting a virtual event Nov. 12-14 for prospective human-computer interaction PhD students. Drop in to meet our faculty, talk to current students, & learn more about admissions (HCI PhD app is open til December). Register:
#CarnegieMellon
#cmuhcii
Please join us in congratulating
#cmuhcii
PhD student
@mbkery
!🎉 Mary Beth was named the 2020 Alan J. Perlis Graduate Student Teaching Award
@SCSatCMU
for her work co-teaching the course Human-AI Interaction () w/
@chinmay
in Fall 2019.
#humanAIinteraction
Congratulations to SCS faculty Jodi Forlizzi, Lining Yao
@liningy
, Keenan Crane
@keenanisalive
, and Jian Ma
@jmuiuc
on the announcement of these endowed professorships. We look forward to celebrating with you all in the spring! Details from
@SCSatCMU
:
"We are lucky to do exceptional research and teaching at the HCII. Even better, we get to combine the two to shape the future of human-computer interaction... I want to help create a department where our work is not just impactful, but also joyful," said Hammer.
Undergraduates: We are now accepting applications for our paid, 10-week, 2022 Summer Research Program! Apply now to work on an interdisciplinary HCI project with our researchers next summer. Details:
#CarnegieMellon
#UndergraduateResearch
We also celebrate
@fabulousQian
, a 2020 graduate from our HCI Ph.D. program, on receiving a 2021
@sigchi
Outstanding Dissertation Award for her work "Understanding Artificial Intelligence as a Material for User Experience Design." Congratulations, Qian!🎉
#AI
#UXdesign
#CHI2021
We are hiring! We welcome applications for tenure-track faculty from candidates w/ research expertise in any area of human-computer interaction
#HCI
! Join our interdisciplinary team in Pittsburgh, PA
@CarnegieMellon
@SCSatCMU
. Apply by Jan. 12:
Congrats, grads! Commencement weekend is upon us. 🎓
Tag your posts with
#CMUgrad
for a chance to be featured on the big screen during the Commencement ceremony this weekend!
Proud to know these folks. We're following along with
#CSCW2023
and will share an HCII recap of the ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing soon.
#SocialComputing
#cmuhcii
#HCIresearch
HCII Professor Aniket Kittur will be among the inductees to the CHI Academy at
#CHI2022
. His interdisciplinary HCI research, which integrates cognitive and social science with AI and interaction techniques, has real world impact. Congratulations, Niki!
Congratulations to all on this recognition, including 3 from our
@cmuhcii
community:
🎉Lifetime Research Award - Jodi Forlizzi
@mizjodi
🎉Societal Impact Award - Amy Ogan
@amyogan
🎉Outstanding Dissertation Award - alumnus Karan Ahuja
@realkaranahuja
HCI PhD '23
#SIGCHI
#CHI2024
🥳👏👏Congratulations to the 2024 ACM
#SIGCHI
awardees!
We recognize 13 SIGCHI members receiving lifetime research and practice, societal impact, and outstanding dissertation awards, as well as 10 being inducted into the SIGCHI Academy!
1/6🧵
Up next in the HCII Seminar Series:
🎙️"Designing & Rethinking the Role of Digital Tools in Support of Employment Among Job Seekers Experiencing Marginalization" w/ our alumna Tawanna Dillahunt
@umsi
!
🗓️Feb. 19
🕜1:30pm EST
💻Livestream only
🔗Details:
I am incredibly grateful for several amazing academic job opportunities this year. I am happy to announce that I have accepted an offer to join the
@cmuhcii
at
@CarnegieMellon
as an Assistant Professor starting in Fall 2019!
Yesterday
@CarnegieMellon
PhD student Haojian Jin received the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award at a virtual
#UbiComp2020
, recognizing his research & service contributions to the field of
#ubiquitouscomputing
. Congratulations, Haojian! Details:
Looking forward to Friday's
#HCIISeminarSeries
with Gregory Abowd, Dean
@NortheasternCOE
& Professor. Join us!
🎙️ "Ubiquitous Computing Considered Harmful: A Two-Act Story of Getting Things Right for the Wrong Reason"
📅 Sept. 23
🕜 1:30pm
📌 NSH 1305
🔗
I couldn't be happier to share the news that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor at the HCII at CMU
@cmuhcii
in Fall 2019! I'm absolutely thrilled to join the amazing faculty team at CMU, and I can't wait to begin working with all the fabulous folks in Pittsburgh!
Missing
#CHI2020
? We are, too, so some of our researchers here at the
#cmuhcii
put together recordings and blog posts of the work they would have presented in Hawaii this week. You can explore their videos and blogs here:
Huge congratulations to all of these
@TheOfficialACM
Fellows inductees, including HCII Professor
@koedinger
and 3 others from
@CarnegieMellon
@SCSatCMU
! Koedinger was recognized for the advancement of AI models of human learning & developing intelligent tutors to aid students.
Announcing the 2023
#ACMFellows
! This year's 68 inductees include the inventor of the World Wide Web, the "godfathers of AI," and other colleagues whose contributions have been important building blocks in forming the digital society that shapes our world.
Just announced today: This year’s impressive group of
#CarnegieScienceAwards
winners! 🏆
Join us on Fri., Nov. 5 to celebrate our awardees and enjoy an evening of explosive science demos, inspiring stories, networking, and more!
Presented by
@eatoncorp
Join us Friday for our first
#HCIISeminarSeries
of Spring '24! Our guest speaker will be Ben Green
@benzevgreen
of
@umsi
.
🎙️"Agorithmic Realism: Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice"
📅Fri., Jan. 19
🕜1:30pm
📍NSH 1305 + livestream
🔗Details:
Congratulations to Jessica Hammer
@cmuhcii
@cmuetc
, Melissa Kalarchian
@DUnursing
, & team for winning the national Shape of Health game competition! Their game, Frolic, invites girls 7-12 to active playtime & encourages parents to support them. Details:
We may not be in Hawaii, but let's celebrate our faculty & students'
#CHI2020
accomplishments:
🎉4 Best Paper Awards (top 1%)
🎉6 Honorable Mention Awards (top 5%)
🎉46 publications by
@CarnegieMellon
authors
CMU papers & abstracts:
Congrats to all!
The ACM Fellows program recognizes the top 1% of ACM Members for their outstanding accomplishments, and HCII professor Jodi Forlizzi was recognized for her contributions to design research in human-computer interaction. Congratulations, Jodi!🎉
#DesignResearch
#HCI
Congratulations to Jodi Forlizzi
@cmuhcii
and Manuel Blum
@CSDatCMU
. Both have been named
@TheOfficialACM
Fellows for 2020 for their outstanding accomplishments in computer science.
It's official -- Assistant Professor Jessica Hammer
@kleenestar
was named to the ✨Global Women in Games HALL OF FAME!✨
Congratulations, Jessica! Details:
@wigj
@cmuetc
#WomenInGames
The HCII Seminar Series resumes this week.
🎙️"Ordering Emotion: Scenes from the History of Affective Computing" with guest
@luke_stark
, assistant professor
@westernuFIMS
🗓️Friday, April 23
🕜1:30p.m. EDT
💻Livestream details:
Our 2024 Summer
#UndergraduateResearch
Program application is now OPEN!
📅Program dates: May 28 to August 2, 2024 (paid, 10-week program)
👩💻Research: 28 HCI projects available
⏰ Apply by: January 26, 2024
🔗Learn more:
#CarnegieMellon
#cmuhcii
New research from
#Apple
and Carnegie Mellon University investigates how
#HomePod
and other devices could learn about their surroundings, and so better understand requests.
@cmuhcii
Shout out to this fun HCII group for not allowing
#socialdistancing
to cancel their faculty candidate dinner this week! We're so proud of everyone for quickly adapting to online versions of our typically in-person interview process (and virtually everything else, too).
Congratulations to first-year PhD Jason Wu on receiving an
@NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship! Learn more about his research to make speech interfaces (eg Siri & Alexa) more
#accessible
to deaf and hard of hearing users:
#NSFGRFP
#a11y
Last week,
@CarnegieMellon
hosted its annual Celebration of Education Awards to honor faculty, staff and graduate students for their exceptional contributions. Congratulations to all CMU award recipients, including the 2 HCII faculty who received Teaching Innovation Awards!
@cmuhcii
congratulations to Jodi Forlizzi in being awarded an honorary doctorate from TU/e!! Well deserved and well earned. Thanks for your wonderful talk “Data-driven economy, AI, and design”. And welcome to TU/e and
@TUE_ID
!!
Congratulations to all of the
@CarnegieMellon
staff members nominated for the various CMU
#AndyAwards
this year, including our own HCII colleague, Diana (Commitment to Students). Thank you all for your work during this extra challenging time!
Congratulations,
@Haiyi_Zhu
and Geoff Kaufman! We look forward to celebrating this afternoon. Virtual events will be held at 4pm (with
@SCSatCMU
) and 5pm (with all of
@CarnegieMellon
's new career development chairs). Get all the details in the story below.
Haiyi Zhu, the Daniel Siewiorek Assistant Professor of HCI, and Geoff Kaufman, the Robert Kraut Assistant Professor of HCI,
@cmuhcii
, are among 13 newly appointed career development chair recipients
@CarnegieMellon
who will be honored virtually today,
ICYMI, the livestream crowd for Friday's HCII Seminar Series w/
@timnitGebru
would have filled room 1305 NSH more than 5x! The talk "The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning & Related Fields & Its Consequences" recording is here: . Thanks, Timnit!
Excited to virtually welcome our next HCII Seminar guest:
@TimnitGebru
, co-founder
@black_in_ai
🎙️ "The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning and Related Fields and Its Consequences"
🗓️ Friday, April 2
🕜 1:30pm EDT
🔗 Details & livestream URL:
See you online for the next HCII Seminar Series!
🎙️"Where is the Human in Emotion Recognition/AI Technologies?" with our guest
@naz_andalibi
, asst prof
@umsi
📅Fri., October 8
🕜1:30pm Eastern
📍Livestream only
💻 Details:
#AI
#SocialComputing
#emotion
Congratulations to the 51 award recipients of the 2019 Amazon Research Awards, who represent 39 universities in 10 countries. View the full list and find out how to be added to the 2020 Call For Proposal distribution list here:
#AmazonResearchAwards
Von
#Potsdam
nach Pittsburgh: Wir gratulieren HPI-Doktorandin (
@alexiiion
) zur Berufung als Assistant Professor an die
@cmuhcii
! Sie wird dort ihr Forschung zu
#Metamaterial
-Devices fortsetzen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch 🎉
Congratulations Dr.
@colegleason
on your successful PhD defense yesterday "Accessible User-Generated Social Media for People with Vision Impairments"! 🎉🎂
#a11y
#socialmedia
I passed my thesis defense! Very excited to be Dr. Cole Gleason for a bit. Thanks to my advisors & thesis committee, collaborators, family, and friends for all of your support!
@isolaura
got me this great cake to celebrate.
Already looking forward to Friday so we can welcome our next
#HCIISeminarSeries
guest, Ding Wang, HCI Researcher at Google Research.
🎙️"The Work of Data Annotation and Annotator Diversity"
📅Fri., March 24
🕜1:30pm EDT
📍NSH 1305 & livestream
🔗Details:
Save the date for this week's virtual HCII Seminar Series:
🎙️ "From content moderation to school assignment: What do theories of justice teach us about design?" featuring
@niloufar_s
of
@Berkeley_EECS
.
🗓️ Fri. 10/9
🕜 1:30-2:30p.m.
📍 Zoom
🔗 Details:
Congratulations to Professor Scott Hudson on this SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award. Looking forward to watching his retrospective talk that is actually about the future!
#CHI2021
Our event for prospective
#HCI
grad students starts this Sunday & you can still register! We're "Building Anti-Racist Futures
@cmuhcii
," so join us! Stay tuned for introductions to the faculty speaking at our Lab Talks.
Schedule & registration:
Join us this Friday for the next
#HCIISeminarSeries
with Pedro Lopes
@plopesresearch
, assistant professor
@UChicagoCS
.
🎙️"Integrating Interactive Devices with the User's Body"
📅Fri., Feb. 24
🕜1:30pm ET
📍NSH 1305 & livestream
🔗Details:
"Coming to
@CarnegieMellon
was like being a kid in an intellectual candy store," said Ken Koedinger during his Hillman Professor of Computer Science chair ceremony. He wants to improve edu and knows CMU is the place to do so. Congratulations! More:
Congratulations to the
@SCSatCMU
Dissertation Award winners this year, including honorable mention recipient
@TobyJLi
and "A Multi-Modal Intelligent Agent that Learns from Demonstrations & Natural Language Instructions", advised by
@bradamyers
!🎉
Thesis:
Final HCII Seminar of the semester, don't miss it!
🎙️"Challenging, Understanding & Innovating to Support Aging & Online Engagement" w/ Robin Brewer
@_rnbrewer
assistant professor
@umsi
🗓️Fri. April 30
🕜1:30pm EDT
💻Details:
#a11y
#aging
#SocialComputing
I’m very proud of our team’s paper winning the Best Paper Award at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences! AND I’m very proud of my dear friend Ken
@d19fe8
for winning Best Student Paper Award! Go
@cmuhcii
!
#ICLS2018
You've heard of
#wearables
, but what about
#chairables
? A
#cmuhcii
team at
#2018NWBT
now to improve their SpokeSense prototype, a fitness tracker that measures things important to wheelchair basketball athletes, like acceleration, braking & tilt! 🏀♿️
NEW FACULTY ALERT! Please join us in welcoming Franceska Xhakaj (
@francinoxh
), who'll be starting as an assistant professor this fall in the
@cmuhcii
and
@CSDatCMU
departments!
Franceska's work focuses on developing technologies to help teachers improve their classroom practices!
Join us for the next HCII Seminar to learn about "disrupting"
#education
&
#learning
with
#tech
.
🎙️ "The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death & Legacy of One Laptop per Child" w/
@morgangames
of
@BerkeleyISchool
🗓️ Friday, April 9
🕜 1:30pm EDT
🔗 Details:
Already looking forward to Friday for this HCII Seminar Series event.
🎙️"Superception: Exploring new 'Self' in the integration of humans & computers" with our guest Shunichi Kasahara of Sony CSL
📅Fri., Nov. 12
🕜1:30pm EST
📍Livestream only
💻Details:
Her pathway from art school to tech may have been unorthodox, but we're glad she's here! Learn more about the new director of the
#cmuhcii
, Jodi Forlizzi, in today's Post Gazette:
We're talking
#remotework
in Friday's HCII Seminar Series. Join us!
🎙️"A Tale of 2 Cities: Software Developers in Practice During the
#COVID19
Pandemic" w/ guest
@denaefordrobin
, Sr. Researcher
@MSFTResearch
🗓️Feb. 26
🕜1:30pm EST livestream
🔗Details:
A research team led by the Morphing Matter Lab (
@cmuhcii
) is developing flat pasta that forms into familiar shapes when cooked. It allows for more sustainable packaging, transportation and storage.
These Queer & BIPOC Community Hour sessions are just a few of the daily sessions we're planning for HCII Preview, our prospective
#cmuhcii
grad student event Oct. 24, 25 & 26. RSVP now to receive the full schedule of student panels and lab talks soon:
We’re Building Anti-Racist Futures
@cmuhcii
& we’re hosting a virtual recruitment event to connect with prospective HCI grad students interested in doing the same. Join us Nov. 8 - 10 for Student Panels, BIPOC Community Hour, Lab Visits, etc. Register now:
Our
#HCIISeminarSeries
guest will be Antti Oulasvirta, Professor, Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering.
“Towards "Artificial Users": Rethinking Predictive Modeling in HCI in the Era of ML”
Friday, April 26th, 1:30pm
NHS1305 + livestream
We're hiring, please RT!
#HCI
professionals with a bachelor's degree + industry experience building & testing human-centered products & services, apply now to join us in
#Pittsburgh
as Teaching Track faculty:
#PghTech
#UXdesign
#HumanCenteredDesign
🎉 Congratulations to
#cmuhcii
faculty Jessica Hammer and Amy Ogan, inaugural recipients of
@CarnegieMellon
@SCSatCMU
Thomas & Lydia Moran Career Development Professorships in Learning Science, endowed to support study & improvement of
#learning
!
37 papers w/ CMU researchers were accepted to the CHI conference this year. HCII honors include 2 Best Paper awards and 6 Honorable Mentions. 🎉
Here's a quick overview of these papers & abstracts:
#CHI2019
#cmuhcii
#humancomputerinteraction
Less than 1 year after our Bachelor of Science in Human-Computer Interaction program was established, we are so proud to recognize Mansi Agarwal as our very first BS in HCI (primary major) graduate. Congratulations, Mansi!🎓👏
"Hammer is a role model for what women in games can be: scholarly & creative, practical & visionary, personally brilliant & community-minded."
@CarnegieMellon
Assistant Professor Jessica Hammer is a finalist for the Women In Games Hall of Fame Award! Go vote by 9/10🗳️
@cmuetc
That's a wrap on the 2021
@SCSatCMU
new faculty introduction series. Last but not least, today we enjoyed learning about new HCII faculty
@alexiiion
() and
@da_lind
() and their HCI research. Welcome to Pittsburgh!🎉
Earlier this month, HCII faculty held a retreat at
@7SpringsPA
to assess how we are meeting the needs of our stakeholders, the future of the field of HCI, and plans to continue to be a leader in research and education.
#cmuhcii
#HumanComputerInteraction
Congratulations to Jessica Hammer, assistant professor of
#cmuhcii
and
@cmuetc
on receiving the 2018 Teaching Innovation Award! The CMU Celebration of Education recognizes faculty for their devotion to and effectiveness in teaching! Details:
Please join us in congratulating the MHCI class of 2022, pictured here after our goodbye celebration last night. We wish you all the best in your next endeavors. Keep in touch! 🎓❤️
#CarnegieMellon
#cmumhci
#MHCI2022
The HCII celebrates our recent Ph.D. graduate, Huy Nguyen. Congratulations! Huy is on the job market and is happy to connect with industry peers in
#EdTech
.
🔗"Addressing the Gender Gap in Middle School Math Education through Digital Learning Games":