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  • A new policy brief from CMU's Traffic 21 outlines the state of automation in public transportation, discusses the challenges and benefits of autonomous vehicle technology, and offers policy recommendations for federal officials.

    New Research Offers Recommendations for Integrating Autonomous Driving Tech Into Public Transportation

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    Autonomous vehicle technology likely won't replace the workers behind the wheels of buses, vans and other vehicles shuttling people around cities and towns anytime soon, but mass transit a...

  • Roberta Klatzky, the Charles J. Queenan Jr. Professor of Psychology and a faculty member in the HCII, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

    Klatzky Elected Into National Academy of Sciences

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    Roberta Klatzky — an expert in cognition whose research examines the relationships between human perception and action — has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences....

  • Nadia Susanto

    SCS Seniors Shine as Scholar Athletes

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    Nadia Susanto and Michael OBroin will both earn degrees from the School of Computer Science during Carnegie Mellon University's upcoming Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 15. But they'...

  • TouchPose calculates hand postures based on the geometry of finger touch points on smartphone and tablet touchscreens.

    TouchPose Technology Senses What Touchscreens Can't Feel

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    Current touchscreens and trackpads miss a lot of information....

  • CMU researchers contributed to more than 40 accepted papers — including three that won Best Paper awards and six that earned Honorable Mentions — at this year's Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022).

    SCS Research Takes Top Honors at CHI 2022

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    Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science took home several top awards at this year's ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022). ...

  • In a collection of articles published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers behind the COVIDcast repository reflect on and share lessons learned from their first year collecting data about the pandemic. PNAS featured the project on its January 2022 cover.

    CMU's COVIDcast Offers Lessons Learned for the Future of Pandemic Forecasting

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    A massive COVID-19 data collection project led by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Delphi Research Group not only helped steer the response to the virus but could also change th...

  • A CyLab paper about how people perceive advanced video analytics has received the Future of Privacy Forum's annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award and is one of its "must-read" privacy papers of the year for policy makers.

    CyLab Research Selected as a 'Must-Read' Privacy Paper for Policy Makers

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    A paper by CyLab researchers about how people perceive advanced video analytics has received the Future of Privacy Forum's annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award. The paper is one of...

  • CMU researchers have exploited the sensitivity of the lips to devise a practical new way for people to receive tactile feedback in virtual worlds.

    Over the Lips, Through the Gums, Look Out Gamers, Here It Comes — Or So It Seems

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    Lips are famously sensual but, together with the gums and tongue, they are also surprisingly sensitive, second only to the fingertips in nerve density. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Unive...

  • CyLab researchers will present two papers at CHI 2022 that examine Apple's privacy nutrition labels.

    CyLab Researchers Investigate Apple's Privacy Labels

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    CyLab researchers will present two papers at the upcoming ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems that examine Apple's privacy nutrition labels....

  • In "Energy Uptopia," one of the games designed in Transformational Game Design Studio, players make investments in energy while trying to keep global temperatures low.

    Games for Change: CMU Course Strategizes Around Sustainability

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    When it comes to climate change, a group of students at Carnegie Mellon University are ahead of the game — or, rather, designing it....

  • Keenan Crane, Jodi Forlizzi, Jian Ma and Lining Yao have all recently earned endowed professorships in SCS.

    SCS Faculty Receive Endowed Professorships

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    Four School of Computer Science professors recently received endowed faculty chairs in recognition of their work and to support further research....

  • Soccer-playing robots are among the artifacts on display in the "Looking Back To Move Forward" exhibition.

    A History of Robotics on Display at CMU's Hunt Library

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    The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries latest exhibition highlights the history of robotics at CMU and the ongoing work of The Robotics Project to preserve the legacy of the field....