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  • side by side images of three current MHCI students and Rales Fellows Lizeth Anaya-Ojeda, Christian Johnson and Zoe Mercado

    Rales HCI Fellows Bring Inclusive Technology to the Forefront of Industry

    The Carnegie Mellon University Rales Fellows Program brings together some of the brightest minds from underrepresented groups in academia....

  • 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...

  • A laptop screen displays what looks like medieval forces prepped for battle.

    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 ...

  • the paper certificate the team received for their HCOMP 2024 Best Paper award

    HCII at HCOMP 2024

    "Responsible Crowd Work for Better Artificial Intelligence (AI)” was the theme of the 12th annual AAAI Conference on Human Computation and...

  • Collaged headshots of the nine people who received Google Academic Research Awards.

    SCS Faculty Receive Google Academic Research Awards

    Nine School of Computer Science faculty members recently received Google Academic Research Awards, which aim to fund and actively collabor...

  • Fall 2024 issue of The Link magazine on a table, the cover is a close up of the American flag

    HCII Highlights in The Link

    The Link magazine from the CMU School of Computer Science is now available in mailboxes of alumni and friends, on newsstands in SCS campus...

  • 2 small flower pots created by 3D printing with spent coffee grounds

    Brewing Sustainability

    It took a lot of coffee to power Mike Rivera’s push toward a doctorate degree in human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon. And it too...

  • this image collage shows the progression of a past project (robot sprayer design) from brainstoming to low-fi to a colored mock up design on a screen

    HCII Seeks Capstone Sponsors for Spring 2025

    Apply our future HCI leaders to your organization's challenges next year. The HCII invites companies, startups and nonprofits alike to spo...

  • side by side headshots of Ken Holstein and Hoda Heidari, HCII faculty who are co-PIs on this grant

    NIST Awards $6M to Carnegie Mellon University To Establish AI Cooperative Research Center

    U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced Sept.

  • HCI Ideas image

    CMU Students launch HCI Ideas Podcast and Cards

    Four Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students took on a special project this summer to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Hu...

  • A dark-haired man leans his back against a podium; a chalkboard and many large stuffed animals are behind him.

    CMU Releases Remastered 'Last Lecture'

    Using AI, a CMU video systems engineer who worked with Randy Pausch revisited the inspirational The Last Lecture talk viewed by millions w...

  • Portrait of Ian Clark, who is sitting on a stool.

    HCII Alum Blends Fashion, Storytelling in Design Work

    On a vacation to Australia in 2018, Ian Clark knew it was time for a change. He was working in real estate but had more creative ambitions...

  • Does Compute logo

    SCS Launches 'Does Compute' Podcast

    Computer science has fueled the innovations of the past decades and will drive the breakthroughs yet to come. The field of ones and zeros ...

  • Mayank Goel speaks at WEF

    Mayank Goel Presents at World Economic Forum Summer Gathering in China

    Mayank Goel, an associate professor in the Software and Societal Systems Department and Human-Computer Interaction Institute, recently att...

  • A person with long blond hair and wearing blue jeans, a pink pullover and a helmet rides a bicycle alongside a row of city transit buses of multiple colors in an urban setting.

    SCS Researchers Partner with Mass Transit Operators for Better Technology

    Carnegie Mellon University researchers are designing the future of transit with people who operate buses and other mass transit vehicles. ...

  • A middle school student is seated at a laptop during introductions to their tutor, a university student.

    Innovative Program Expands Reach with Grant from Richard King Mellon Foundation

    The Carnegie Mellon University-based PLUS program, renowned for its innovative human+AI tutoring approach, has received a significant boos...

  • Collaged headshots of William Agnew and Jordan Taylor.

    CMU Technologists Look to a More Inclusive Future

    As artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated and capable of closely depicting reality, researchers at the HCII are working to ens...

  • A blue line drawing shows an stick figure with a speech bubble, clearly making a request, while a stick figure operator works a switchboard in the background.

    Siri, It Hurts When You Constantly Misunderstand Me. You too, Alexa

    Users of voice assistants such as Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant know the frustration of being misunderstood by a machine. But for people...