July 19, 2017
Four Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. students are recipients of the Center for Machine Learning and Health (CMLH) Fellowship in Digital Health. Incoming students Prerna Chikersal and ... Read more
July 11, 2017
The first known use of the word, computer, was actually in reference to a job title, not a piece of technology. In spite of the past trend for men to more frequently take on the job of computer scientist, the first recognized computer programmer was a woman named Ada ... Read more
July 10, 2017
"Algorithm models and machine learning systems. Whether we realize it or not, our daily lives center around them," explained a team of Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students in their paper for Jason Hong's ... Read more
June 26, 2017
Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D students Abdelkareem Bedri and Yang Zhang are the recipients of this year's Qualcomm Fellowship. They are one of just eight student teams selected for the 2017 fellowship.
In their proposal, "Towards General Purpose ... Read more
June 26, 2017
Article originally posted on www.cs.cmu.edu
In the days of Prohibition, thirsty men and women used a secret knock to enter speakeasies. Occasionally, a nefarious sort who'd ... Read more
June 26, 2017
RoboTutor, educational technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University that teaches children basic math and reading skills, has been named a semifinalist in the $15 million ... Read more
June 19, 2017
Erroneous examples, step-by-step examples of incorrect problem solving, is a pedagogical approach used in only a few fields, such as medical education. Bruce McLaren, an associate research professor in the Human- ... Read more
June 5, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University is a place where the future is imagined and re-designed constantly. Roads with self-driving cars, rooms powered by super sensors, and computing directly on your skin are just a few version of the future conceived of by Carnegie Mellon minds. ... Read more
May 18, 2017
3D printing has been quietly moving towards a radical revolution over the past several years. While it has already exceeded 5.1 billion, its growth has been relatively slow, and not as disruptive as some might have envisioned. Instead, 3D printing has been advancing to ... Read more
May 16, 2017
What does a gorilla, toppling towers and a postdoctoral fellow from Carnegie Mellon University have in common? They are all part of the mixed platform game, NoRilla, that teachers young students physics. Nesra Yannier ... Read more
May 16, 2017
Originally posted on www.cs.cmu.edu by Byron Spice 05/16/2017.
A new master's degree program at Carnegie Mellon University aims to teach computer ... Read more
May 12, 2017
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May 11, 2017
Like the fickle Goldilocks, game players are said to seek a game experience that is not too hard and not too easy, but just challenging enough. Or at least, that has been the general assumption. It is easy to imagine that a game can be too difficult for a user ... Read more
May 10, 2017
HCII Professor Chris Harrison and PhD students Gierad Laput and Yang Zhang have unveiled ... Read more
May 9, 2017
When you are given a task with a number of possible approaches and no clear requirements, how do you get started? When faced with building software to solve an open-ended problem, it’s often impossible to fully design what to build upfront. Programmers often need to ... Read more
May 5, 2017
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute heads to Denver, Colo. for the 2017 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). This conference is always a welcome opportunity to reconnect with fellow researchers ... Read more
May 3, 2017
In any given day, how many actions or activities do you complete without pausing to think? Whether it's remembering each step to make a cup of coffee or remembering each turn on your daily commute, successfully navigating our daily routines is an accomplishment we often ... Read more
May 2, 2017
"Too often, people with disabilities have to adapt themselves to the ‘ability assumptions’ of their computing systems, but I wanted to reverse that burden by expecting more from our interactive computing systems," said ... Read more
May 1, 2017
It is Feb. 27, 1943, in Berlin. Anneliese Edelman returns home with some fish, a rare treat for dinner.
Her husband, Max, should be back from his double shift at the factory, but their home is empty. For Anneliese, what was an ordinary day becomes the day her ... Read more
April 28, 2017
There's no such thing as a free lunch or a free service that bundles subscriptions, as was recently reaffirmed by Unroll.Me's media coverage. Unroll.Me is marketed as a free service that helps users manage and weed out junk mail, and recently came into the spotlight for ... Read more
