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  • A person wearing an orange apron sautees salmon in a skillet.

    Accessing Recipe Information Without Looking

    "Cook until golden brown" is a recipe instruction virtually every home cook encounters. It's simple enough for sighted people to follow bu...

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    SCS Research Highlights Kids' Role in AI

    Seated at a laptop and surrounded by other students, a young girl asked an image generator powered by artificial intelligence to create a ...

  • group photo of the summer 2024 researchers standing on a staircase outside

    HCII Seeks Applicants for 2025 Summer Research Program

    Application available until mid-JanuaryThe Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) Summer Undergraduate Research program is an opportu...

  • A man with dark hair wears a virtual reality headset and touches his palm, which is superimposed with icons for popular smartphone apps.

    Future AR/VR Controllers Could Be the Palm of Your Hand

    The new generation of augmented and virtual reality controllers may not just fit in the palm of your hand. They could be the palm of your ...

Latest Projects

  • side by side images of a person holding gauze on their forehead and an interface with both question answering and proactive interventions
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    PrISM: Procedural Interaction from Sensing Module

    There are numerous complex tasks in everyday life, from cooking to medical self-care, that involve a series of atomic steps. Properly executing these step...

  • 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...