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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Myers Publishes Book on Interaction Techniques
A new book from Brad A. Myers, the director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, explores the histor...
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HCII at UIST 2023
The 2023 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) was held in San Francisco, California from October 29 to November ...
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SCS Researchers Receive More Than $1.5M in NSF CAREER Awards
Two Carnegie Mellon University professors in the School of Computer Science received Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awa...
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Fluid Reality Haptic Gloves Bring Ultra-Sensitive Touch to VR
Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed a lightweight, low-cost haptic glove that delivers d...
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Thermal Camera Senses Breathing To Improve Exercise Calorie Estimates
Any fitness buff will tell you that the estimates of calories burned made by smartphones, smartwatches and other wearable devices vary wil...
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CMU Faculty and Staff Present at PASA Lunch and Learn
On Tuesday, March 5, Ken Koedinger, Erin Gatz, and Nesra Yannier shared the exciting work they’ve been doing in the field of Artificial In...
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Forlizzi, Ogan and Ahuja Receive 2024 SIGCHI Awards
Three members of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) have received 2024 SIGCHI Awards, including Jodi Forlizzi for Lifetime Re...
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Shirado visits CMU Portugal
Hirokazu Shirado, Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), recently conducted a visiting rese...
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Five Named Microsoft Research AI & Society Fellows
Five researchers from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute – Hong Shen,
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Carnegie Mellon University and Play Included® Bring LEGO® Brick Based Interventions to US
Brick by brick, Carnegie Mellon University is building a new way to transform children's social and emotional learning in schools and comm...
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Yildirim Selected as AI Rising Star
HCI Institute doctoral candidate Nur Yildirim was invited to present a lightning talk at the 2023 AI Symposium at the University of Michig...
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Four SCS Faculty Named 2023 ACM Fellows
School of Computer Science faculty members Maria Florina Balcan, Roger B. Dannenberg, Ken Koedinger and Elaine Shi have been recognized as...