Company Profile
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Company Overview
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) is an interdisciplinary community of students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). This community is dedicated to research and education in topics related to computer technology in support of human activity and society. The HCII’s mission is 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. More information about the institute is available from its website at http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/.
The HCII has strength in learning sciences and technology, social computing, the computer science needed for human-computer interaction and design. In the areas most relevant to AERA, the faculty in the HCI Institute have a long history of successful research in the learning sciences and learning technologies. They have not only made advances in basic science and technology, but have also been successful in wide-spread adoption of their research through applications in use by learners around the country and around the world. Learning science project include those on:
* Intelligent tutoring systems
* Educational games
* Metacognition and motivation
* Educational technology tools for developing regions
* Authoring tools for non-programmers to create tutors
* Educational data mining
* Use of language technologies to support collaborative learning
* Student modeling
* Project-based learning for engineering design
* Supporting teachers through automated formative assessment
Although the HCII is headquartered within the School of Computer Science, members of the community represent a broad spectrum of the CMU campus including the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tepper School of Business, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Software Engineering Institute, as well as the School of Computer Science. Collaborators and sponsors are from other universities in Pittsburgh and around the world, small startup companies, and multi-national corporations.