WGU and CMU Partner to Develop AI-Enabled Career Guidance Technology
National Science Foundation awards universities $700,000 grant to kick off 3-year research project
Learning Sciences and Technologies
Ogan Named to World Economic Forum's Young Scientists 2018
Amy Ogan, the Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named to the World Economics Forum's 2018 list of Young Scientists.
Several from HCII Involved with 2018 Educational Data Mining Conference
From speaking to event planning, three members of the Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Institute contributed to the 11th annual Educational Data Mining Conference held in Buffalo, NY, Sunday, July 15 through Wednesday, July 18, 2018.
HCII PhD Students Return from London Festival of Learning with 3 Awards
Many experts from the learning sciences and educational technologies communities gathered at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Education in London last week for not one but three conferences during the London Festival of Learning.
ClassInSight
While much of education research is focused on student performance, this research turns the focus to the development of the teacher.
Digital Exhibit Labels: Enhancement or Distraction for Museum Visitors
Does a touchscreen display distract visitors from the cultural museum artifacts it supports?
A team of learning scientists and computer scientists collaborated with museum curators to analyze the role of digital display technology in visitor learning in a collections-based exhibit.
HCII at CHI 2018
Over 3,000 of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to Montréal this week for CHI 2018, the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction will take place from April 21-26, 2018.
PhD and Postdoc Win Gold Awards at Reimagine Education Competition
Using mixed-reality to reimagine the classroom from both sides -- an Intelligent Science Station for students and smart glasses for teachers -- earned Gold Awards for an HCII PhD student and Postdoc in the 2017-18 Reimagine Education competition.
$2.5m grant received to study the science of teaching
A new, five-year, $2.5 million research grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation has been awarded to a team led by Carnegie Mellon University assistant professor Amy Ogan to study teacher learning in high-need settings.
RoboTutor Advances to Global Learning XPRIZE Semifinals
RoboTutor, educational technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University that teaches children basic math and reading skills, has been named a semifinalist in the $15 million Global Learning XPRIZE competition.
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