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    HCII Seeks Capstone Sponsors for Spring 2025

    Apply our future HCI leaders to your organization's challenges next year. The HCII invites companies, startups and nonprofits alike to spo...

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    NIST Awards $6M to Carnegie Mellon University To Establish AI Cooperative Research Center

    U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced Sept.

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    CMU Students launch HCI Ideas Podcast and Cards

    Four Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students took on a special project this summer to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Hu...

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    CMU Releases Remastered 'Last Lecture'

    Using AI, a CMU video systems engineer who worked with Randy Pausch revisited the inspirational The Last Lecture talk viewed by millions w...

Latest Projects

  • MinexR
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    MineXR

    Extended Reality (XR) interfaces offer engaging user experiences, but their effective design requires a nuanced understanding of user behavior and prefere...

  • UHC team on presentation day at the front of the classroom
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    Team University Hospitals

    Patients receiving Mohs surgery are currently provided written and verbal instructions and are sent home to perform wound-care. The issue at hand is that ...

  • 5 students on the Mentoring Partnership team stand in the front of the classrom on presentation day
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    Team Mentoring Partnership

    We are working closely with The Mentoring Partnership (TMP), a nonprofit organization that serves local mentoring programs in Southwest Pennsylvania. We s...

  • MHCI South Fayette team wearing visitor name badges on a visit to the school
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    Team South Fayette

    We are designing a course catalog for the future to encourage students to develop their self-identity, to inspire confidence, and to explore new classes. ...