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  • Alexandra Ion

    Ion Receives NSF CAREER Award for Material-Changing Interfaces

    Imagine a hard floor that adapts to cushion the impact of your fall, or a chair that adjusts its firmness and ergonomic support based on y...

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  • side by side photos of Koedinger, Kurland, Rohrer, the 3 named University Professors this year

    Carnegie Mellon Names 2025 University Professors

    Three Carnegie Mellon University faculty members have been chosen to receive the title of University Professor in 2025. University Profess...

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  • screenshot of the browser extension Purpose Mode

    Purpose Mode Helps Social Media Users Stay Focused on Their Desired Tasks

    If you’re an active user of social media platforms, chances are you’ve felt distracted on more than one occasion while staring at your pho...

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  • brightly colored illustration of a collage of overlapping screens and visuals in the space above 6 people sitting at computers

    SCS Tool Improves Community Buy-In for Policy Decisions

    Community policies, such as those for zoning or parking, are typically made at the top, which can leave community members feeling frustrat...

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  • illustration of a person sitting at a desk with 5 computer monitors, in the background there are vertical lines of a white bar chart dark on a moody dark red and black background

    Working With AI

    Chatbot companions, generated videos, banking software and homework help. Artificial intelligence software has found its way into more and...

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  • Chris Harrison

    Harrison Earns Teaching Innovation Award at Celebration of Education

    Chris Harrison received the university's 2025 Teaching Innovation Award to recognize his transformative work on the course "Designing Huma...

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  • CHI 2025 logo of a small illustration of a seaside city, complete with a small ferris wheel

    CMU at CHI 2025

    Our halls are abuzz with talk of “CHI” (pronounced “kai”), the nickname for the upcoming conference on computer human interaction (CHI). ...

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  • collage of several classroom images for the XR course

    Up Next in Special Topics

    Our Special Topics courses provide the opportunity to explore the future of HCI, guided by the experts who are shaping the field. These dy...

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  • group of 14 SNU and CMU faculty standing in front of a banner that reads Opening Ceremony for the new HCAI center

    CMU Launches Human-Centered AI Research Center with Seoul National University

    Carnegie Mellon University and Seoul National University (SNU) have announced a new collaboration to advance human-centered artificial int...

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  • An scene from a virtual reality environment shows a room of animated people in a simulated party environment.

    VR/AR Could Help People Manage Everyday Stressors

    Everyday situations can sometimes feel like big stressors, whether it's delivering an important work presentation, attending a party full ...

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  • A dark-haired woman with a ponytail holds a book while she reclines on a purple chair.

    Researchers Create Flat-to-Shape Objects With Computer-Controlled Sewing

    CMU researchers introduced a novel method for fabricating functional flat-to-shape objects using a computer-controlled sewing machine. ...

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  • Pink and blue earmuffs placed on a microphone.

    Protecting Audio Privacy at the Source

    Sound is a powerful source of information. By training algorithms to identify distinct sound signatures, sound can reveal what a person is...

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  • scuba diver beside the text Echo of the Abyss

    Using Virtual Reality to Connect Players With Ocean Ecosystems

    Fewer people have been to the deepest parts of the ocean than have walked on the surface of the moon. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Unive...

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  • Collaged headshots of Gabriella Howse and Connor Tsui.

    Howse, Tsui Receive 2025 Stehlik Scholarship

    School of Computer Science seniors Gabriella Howse and Connor Tsui both walk the halls of the Gates-Hillman Centers and mentor their fello...

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  • A laptop screen displays two windows: one with a math tutoring problem and another with video of a human tutor.

    CMU Researchers Help Launch Project To Improve Education

    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) are part of a nationwide project harnessing data from virtual...

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  • Scott Hudson

    Hudson Named 2024 ACM Fellow

    Professor Scott Hudson is one of 55 distinguished computer scientists named to the class of 2024 ACM Fellows by the Association for Comput...

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  • A man sits in a wheelchair with his arms out to the side. Insets zoom in on sensors on both wrists, his hat and the back of his chair.

    Virtually Accessible

    When Atieh Taheri first donned a virtual reality headset and started walking around a virtual world, her experience didn't match what she ...

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  • 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...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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...

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