 Founded in 1993, the HCII is a place where students and faculty work 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.Though housed in the School of Computer Science, the institute is truly interdisciplinary and includes faculty and students from CMU's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tepper School of Business, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute of Technology and Software Engineering Institute, as well as computer science.HCII also works closely with colleagues from other universities in Pittsburgh and around the world, and collaborates with researchers in companies that range from local startups to multinational corporations.