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Latest News
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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 ...
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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
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Navigating the Moon
CMU Students Design Autonomous System for NASA Challenge - When Carnegie Mellon University's Team Resnik arrived in Houston, they reveled...
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Koedinger Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
SCS faculty member Ken Koedinger received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Soc...
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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 ...
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CMU at Festival of Learning 2026
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) had a strong showing at the Festival of Learning...
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Stepping Toward Better Mobility
A CMU team created a mobility aid that combines functionality with wearability to support people with mobility issues, such as those who e...
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HCII at IUI 2026
Research at the ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces focuses on the intersection of AI and HCI, and covers both the computational...
Latest Projects
ProjectNational 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 ...
ProjectPolicyCraft
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 ...
ProjectInkspire
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 ...
ProjectVideoMap
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 ...