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  • 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...

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  • 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.

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    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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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    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 ...

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  • 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...

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  • 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. ...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 2024 FAcct logo, June 3-6, with a multicolored capybara illustration

    CMU at FAccT 2024

    Researchers from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and several other Carnegie Mellon University schools and disciplines cont...

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  • An illustration of a search engine window, including a search bar with a magnifying glass in it, and the results below represented by boxes in various colors.

    New Search Engine Tool Helps Users Make Sense of Unfamiliar Topics

    An unstructured search for online information about new topics or products can be daunting.

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    Kittur is GeekWire Podcast Guest

    AI, the brain, and the crowd: Research explores new ways for humans and tech to work togetherTodd Bishop, co-founder of GeekWire, recently...

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  • A deep pink box shows the outline of a robot's head with a dialogue box above it, while a lighter pink box contains a drawing of two people talking with a question mark above their heads.

    People With Autism Turn to ChatGPT for Advice on Workplace Issues

    A new Carnegie Mellon University study shows that many people with autism embrace ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence tools for he...

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  • A drawing of a smiling robot with open arms wearing a sign that says "Caution, pedestrian cross" set against a real background of an urban crosswalk pedestrians and a dog are trying to use.

    Robots Could Clear Snow, Assist at Crosswalks, Monitor Sidewalks for Traffic

    A new study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers found that when roboticists and people with disabilities collaborate on robot design...

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  • SCS researchers will contribute to two NSF multi-institution research initiatives aimed at reducing the use of carbon and creating sustainable computing.

    CMU Researchers To Tackle Carbon Use, Sustainability Through NSF Expeditions in Computing Awards

    Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will contribute to two multi-institution research initiatives aim...

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    Wikibench Allows Wikipedians To Improve AI Evaluation Datasets

    Every two seconds, someone makes an edit to a Wikipedia page. And while many of those edits help curate and develop the internet's encyclo...

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  • SCS faculty members Andrea Bajcsy, Motahhare Eslami, Ken Holstein, Aditi Raghunathan, Andrej Risteski and Hong Shen have received 2024 Google Research Scholar Awards.

    SCS Faculty Earn Google Research Scholar Awards

    Six Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the School of Computer Science received 2024 Google Research Scholar Awards, which support e...

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  • CHI 2024 logo with the theme Surfing the World May 11-16, 2024

    CMU at CHI 2024

    Researchers from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and several other Carnegie Mellon University schools and disciplines cont...

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