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  • Portrait of Paulo Carvalho

    Carvalho Earns NSF CAREER Award To Study Motivation and Learning

    HCII faculty member Paulo Carvalho has received an NSF CAREER Award to study the reciprocal relationship between student motivation and ...

  • Logo for the Does Compute podcast, featuring the tagline, How CS is building useful stuff that works.

    Season Three of 'Does Compute' Now Available

    Season three of the SCS podcast, "Does Compute," launches today on the GeekWire website, YouTube and wherever you listen

  • Group shot of the students on Team Resnik, holding their poster and the NASA SUITS seal.

    Navigating the Moon

    CMU Students Design Autonomous System for NASA Challenge - When Carnegie Mellon University's Team Resnik arrived in Houston, they reveled...

  • Hong Shen stands in front of an audience and holds a microphone while presenting about AI safety at the World Economic Forum annual meeting.

    Hong Shen Discusses AI Safety at WEF Annual Meeting

    Hong Shen, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, presented this summer at the World Economic ...

Latest Projects

  • A teacher works with a student while the student engages in tutoring with a remote tutor
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    National Tutoring Observatory

    The mission of the National Tutoring Observatory is to capture and study great teachers and tutors in one-on-one and small-group settings to uncover the “secret sauce” of effective teaching. By partne ...

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    PolicyCraft

    Community and organizational policies are typically designed in a top-down, centralized fashion, with limited input from impacted stakeholders. This can r Community and organizational policies are typically designed in a top-down, centralized fashion, with limited input from impacted stakeholders. This can result in policies that are misaligned with com ...

  • screenshot of the Inkspire interface
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    Inkspire

    With recent advancements in the capabilities of Text-to-Image (T2I) AI models, product designers have begun exp With recent advancements in the capabilities of Text-to-Image (T2I) AI models, product designers have begun experimenting with them in their work. However, T2I models struggle to interpret abstract la ...

  • illustration of the proof-of-concept editing interface with map-inspired elements, like district, path and landmark
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    VideoMap

    Video editing is a creative and complex endeavor and we believe that there is potential for reimagining a new v Video editing is a creative and complex endeavor and we believe that there is potential for reimagining a new video editing interface to better support the creative and exploratory nature of video edi ...