News & Events
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View our recent news stories below. Looking for an upcoming event? Visit our website calendar to view our public events, including our weekly Seminar Series on Friday afternoons.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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...