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Celebrating 25 Years of the HCII
November 7, 2019
Almost 400 people celebrated the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s 25th anniversary on October 24 and 25, 2019 at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Retrospective video debuts at HCII 25th anniversary party
November 7, 2019
In 1994, a group of Carnegie Mellon University faculty members created an interdisciplinary, collaborative institute (that's us!) to integrate the previously siloed areas of computer science, psychology and design.
In celebration of the silver anniversary of the ... Read more
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ChairJam Puts Spin on Hackathon Concept
October 28, 2019
Amelia Li is threading wires into bits of hardware scattered on a table. As she alternates between red, yellow, blue and green, the master's student of entertainment technology at ... Read more
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One-Dimensional Objects Morph Into New Dimensions
October 8, 2019
... Read moreA line is the shortest distance between two points, but "A-line," a 4D printing system developed at Carnegie Mellon University, takes a more circuitous route. One-dimensional, "
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SCS Students Named 2020 Siebel Scholars
October 8, 2019
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McLaren Will Promote Educational Technology in Chile on Fulbright
September 27, 2019
Fulbright Program Sponsors Three-Month Sojourn in Valparaiso
Bruce McLaren believes the moment is right to ... Read more
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GymCam Tracks Exercises That Wearable Monitors Can’t
September 12, 2019
Algorithm Enables Cameras To Recognize Distinctive Exercise Motions
Wearable sensors such as smartwatches have become a popular motivational tool for fitness enthusiasts, but gadgets do not sense all exercises equally. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon ... Read more
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Zimmerman, Forlizzi Co-Author Encyclopedia Chapter
July 23, 2019
The newest chapter of the online Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Edition was written by HCII professors John Zimmerman ... Read more
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HCI Class Project Turned Entrepreneurship Lesson for Dedicated METALS Students
June 21, 2019
The work began as a group project for an elective HCI course.
Three Masters of Educational Technology and Applied Learning Science (METALS) students took the seminar-studio ... Read more
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Online Atlas of Aquatic Insects Aids Water-Quality Monitoring
June 20, 2019
New Tool Helps Even Novices Identify Insects Inhabiting Streams, Lakes and Rivers
A new online field guide to aquatic ... Read more
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Forlizzi To Receive Honorary Doctorate from TU/e
June 6, 2019
During the forthcoming MomenTUm, Eindhoven University of Technology will take the exceptional step of awarding two honorary doctorates - this usually happens only during a lustrum year. This has been prompted by the remarkable quality of the
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HCI Students Present Research During MoM 2019
June 3, 2019
The Undergraduate Research Symposium, or the "Meeting of the Minds," (MoM) is a university-wide celebration of undergraduate research. More ... Read more
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CMU, Yixue Education Inc. Announce AI Research Project in Adaptive K-12 Education
May 30, 2019
Yixue Education Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University have announced a new multiyear partnership highlighted by a comprehensive artificial intelligence research lab.
The CMU-Squirrel AI Research Lab on Personalized Education at Scale will develop new ways for AI, ... Read more
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Wu Receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
May 29, 2019
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RoboTutor Team Awaits Global Learning XPRIZE Results
May 13, 2019
Winning Team Gets $10 Million, but Ultimate Goal Is Boosting Literacy for Millions Worldwide
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OpenSimon Toolkit To Make Every Classroom a Learning Laboratory
May 10, 2019
Carnegie Mellon’s learning engineering techniques, tools and materials now openly available
Carnegie Mellon University has launched OpenSimon — a learning engineering community ... Read more
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Researchers Make Transformational AI Seem "Unremarkable"
May 8, 2019
AI Must Be Unobtrusive To Be Accepted as Part of Clinical Decision Making
Physicians making life-and-death decisions about organ transplants, cancer treatments or heart surgeries typically don't give much thought to how ... Read more
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5 Papers from Morphing Matter Lab Accepted to CHI 2019
May 7, 2019
The Morphing Matter Lab from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is presenting five papers at ... Read more
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Show Your Hands: Smartwatches Sense Hand Activity
May 7, 2019
Devices That Know What Your Hands Are Doing Could Unlock New Apps
We've become accustomed to our smartwatches and smartphones sensing what our bodies are doing, be it walking, driving or
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HCII Researchers Make Soft, Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines
May 6, 2019
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have used computationally controlled knitting machines to create plush toys and
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