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  • an AI Design Kit visual illustrating the example of biometric security. Detection possibilities, actions, inferences and data capabilities vary across the 4 capability levels

    Yildirim Selected as AI Rising Star

    NEWS

    HCI Institute doctoral candidate Nur Yildirim was invited to present a lightning talk at the 2023 AI Symposium at the University of Michigan, which had a theme of “Responsible AI.”...

  • color icons representing the design of interactive training interfaces, models, and organizations

    Studying and designing for human-AI collaborative work in real-world contexts

    PROJECT

    Across a range of real-world contexts, we are studying how AI is currently being designed and used to augment or transform worker practices. Moving beyond...

  • CMU is launching the Responsible AI Initiative to bring research in this field under the umbrella of fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics, and to apply these principles to real-world applications affecting society.

    CMU Launches Responsible AI Initiative To Direct Technology Toward Social Responsibility

    NEWS

    Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve our daily lives, whether it's by helping doctors better diagnose and treat disease, reducing jail recidivism, or connecting people in n...

  • scatterplot graph of the landscape of HCI literature using machine learning

    Increasing Design Innovation

    PROJECT

    Design innovation often follows technical advances. For example, when Philips invented the cassette recorder in 1962, designers innovated this technology ...

  • closeup of IoT coffee table

    IoT Coffee Table

    PROJECT

    Communicates what the environment is sensing Today people increasingly find themselves in spaces that invisibly sense them. The increasing use of cameras...

  • teacher's view of 3 wide rows students and desks from the front of the classroom with the Class In Sight technology overlay

    ClassInSight

    PROJECT

    While much of education research is focused on student performance, this research turns the focus to the development of the teacher....

  • Virtual Possessions

    PROJECT

    The Project on Virtual Possessions investigates how people make sense of and construct value with their ever-increasing collections of virtual things. The...

  • Online Feedback for Design

    PROJECT

    This project explores novel opportunities for how innovators can obtain and make sense of diverse feedback from potential stakeholders or customers. We ha...

  • Pediluma

    PROJECT

    Pediluma is a shoe accessory designed to encourage opportunistic physical activity. It features a light that brightens the more the wearer walks and slowl...

  • Designing for the Self

    PROJECT

    This project investigates the value of product attachment theory, which describes how people develop relationships with and learn to love their possession...

  • Design Research in HCI

    PROJECT

    This project investigates the role of Design and Design Thinking in HCI research and practice. On the research side, the work investigates how research th...

  • Conversation With the Immaterial Material of Software

    PROJECT

    Designers creatively investigate many possible solution by engaging in reflective conversations with materials. For example, industrial designers sketch w...