Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Newell-Simon Hall
Newell Simon Hall houses offices, meeting facilities, and project labs for faculty and staff in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
Tesla Touch
TeslaTouch infuses finger-driven interfaces with physical feedback. The technology is based on the electrovibration principle.
Skinput
Skinput is a technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission, allowing the skin to be used as a finger input surface.
News »
Cassell Posts on World Economic Forum Blog February 7, 2012
In a World Economic Forum blog entry, HCII Director Justine Cassell says technological innovations won’t reach their potential for solving human concerns if developers fail to understand the goals, fears and experiences of the humans who will use those innovations.
Quarter of Tweets Not Worth Reading, HCII Researcher Reports February 1, 2012
Twitter users choose the microblogs they follow, but that doesn’t mean they always like what they get. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Georgia Institute of Technology found that users say only a little more than a third of the tweets they receive are worthwhile.
Forbes Names Harrison to "30 Under 30" List December 21, 2011
HCII PhD student Chris Harrison was listed by Forbes magazine in its “30 Under 30” special report on tomorrow’s brightest stars. The magazine identified 30 top disrupters under age 30 in 12 different fields. Harrison was among those chosen in the Science category.
Publications »
- Aleahmad, T., Aleven, V., and Kraut, R. (2009). Creating a Corpus of Targeted Learning Resources with a Web-Based Open Authoring Tool, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 99, no. 1. (PDF)
- Balan, R., N. Ramasubbu, K. Prakobphol, N. Christin, J. Hong. (2009). mFerio: The Design and Evaluation of a Peer-to-Peer Mobile Payment System. In Proceedings of Mobisys 2009.
- Bessiere, K., Ellis, J., Kellogg, W. (2009). Acquiring a Professional Second Life: Problems and Prospects for the Use of Virtual Worlds in Business. In Proceeding of the twenty-seventh annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems.
- Burke, M., Marlow, C., Lento, T. (2009). Feed Me: Motivating Newcomer Contribution in Social Network Sites. In Proceeding of the twenty-seventh annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. (PDF)
- Christel, M. (2009). Automated Metadata in Multimedia Information Systems: Creation, Refinement, Use in Surrogates, and Evaluation. San Rafael, CA: Morgan & Claypool.
- Dekel, U. & Herbsleb, J.D. (2009). Improving API Documentation Usability with Knowledge Pushing. To appear, International Conference on Software Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, May 16-24.
- Dey, A.K., & Newberger, A. (2009). Support for Context-Aware Intelligibility and Control. In Proceeding of the twenty-seventh annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, CHI 2009. Best Paper Nominee.
- Golden, E. (2009) Early-stage Software Design for Usability. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (Companion Volume). IEEE Computer Society Washington, DC, USA.
- Harrison, C. and Hudson, S. E. (2009). Providing Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons on a Visual Display. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '09. ACM, New York, NY. (PDF)
- Harrison, C. and Hudson, S. E. (2009). Texture Displays: A Passive Approach to Tactile Presentation. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '09. ACM, New York, NY. (PDF)