News & Events
You're in the right place to keep up with department news and upcoming events at the HCI Institute.
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 Device Simulates Feel of Walls, Solid Objects in Virtual Reality
Strings Attached to Hand, Fingers Create More Realistic Haptic Feedback Today's virtual reality systems can create immersive visual expe...
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HCII Research Accepted to CHI 2020
The international ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known as CHI) was scheduled to take place this we...
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Jason Hong Named to CHI Academy
Professor Jason Hong has been named to the 2020 CHI Academy, an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributi...
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Virtual Talks from CHI 2020
The 2020 international ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) was scheduled to take place this week (April...
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Carnegie Mellon Unveils Five Interactive COVID-19 Maps
Carnegie Mellon University today unveiled five interactive maps displaying real-time information on symptoms, doctor visits, medical tes...
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Hammer Earns NSF CAREER Award
Jessica Hammer, the Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science in the School of Computer Science's Human-Computer Inte...
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The Future of AI is Female
Showcasing CMU's women in AI research across the career continuum Carnegie Mellon University has shaped artificial intelligence (AI) fr...
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HCII Students’ Game Wins "Most Creative" at TreeHacks
Lucid Drums earned Most Creative Hack and finished in Top 8
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Game Developers Level Up as COVID Pushes People Home
With many stuck in their homes as cities around the world try to reduce transmission of COVID-19, people are turning to games as a way to ...
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CMU Spinoff Offers AI Platform To Help Governments Address COVID-19
People who manage public facilities and spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic have lots of new questions that artificial intelligence and ...
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CyLab Q&A with Jason Hong
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact countless aspects of everyday life, CyLab researchers are monitoring its effects on people’s ...
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Goel Receives 2019 Google Faculty Research Award
Mayank Goel, assistant professor with the School of Computer Science's HCII and ISR, recently received a 2019 Human-Computer Interaction G...
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Chouldechova and Zhu Awarded Research Grant on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Amazon have announced that two Carnegie Mellon University researchers have been awarded a resear...
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Rose, Zimmerman Named AAAS Leshner Public Engagement Fellows
The 2020-21 Fellows are ready to discuss how AI affects our work, decision-making and well-being The American Association for the...
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METALS Alumnus to Lead Team in Rural Panama
Carnegie Mellon University learning engineers are heading to rural Panama to help teachers improve student outcomes in science, technology...
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HCII Seeks Applicants for 2020 Summer Research Program
Carnegie Mellon's Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Human-Computer Interaction program is an opportunity for undergraduate studen...
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Block Center Podcast "Episode 9: Paging Dr. Robot"
Consequential is a podcast that looks at the human side of technological change and develops meaningful plans of action for policymakers, ...
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New Technology Makes Internet Memes Accessible for People With Visual Impairments
CMU Researchers Develop System to Identify and Translate Memes People with visual impairments use social media like everyone else, oft...
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Sharing accounts in the workplace is a mess
Last year, a team of CyLab researchers explored the account-sharing behaviors of romantic couples and found that some of their practices c...
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Inviting Clients for 2020 HCI Capstone Projects
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 2020 projects.