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    Why Pittsburghers Are Already Stressed About the Parkway East Closure — and What They Can Do About It

    Before the upcoming closure of the Parkway East, many Pittsburgh commuters are already feeling the stress.

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    Designing the Future of Tech Governance

    Carnegie Mellon University students are stepping out of the classroom ready to prove that the people who design technology are uniquely qu...

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    NoRILLA Wins Global Competition

    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science won an international competition aimed at transforming kindergarten...

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    Looking Ahead: AI Needs UI

    There is a distinct tension when opening an artificial intelligence (AI) tool and facing that empty text box with its blinking cursor. Wha...

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 ...

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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 ...