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  • Save the Date

    HCII 25th Anniversary Celebration

  • 4 members of the GoTracker team

    HCI Class Project Turned Entrepreneurship Lesson for Dedicated METALS Students

    The work began as a group project for an elective HCI course.

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    Online Atlas of Aquatic Insects Aids Water-Quality Monitoring

    New Tool Helps Even Novices Identify Insects Inhabiting Streams, Lakes and Rivers A new online field guide to aquatic insects in the east...

  • Forlizzi and Winzer headshots, side by side

    Forlizzi To Receive Honorary Doctorate from TU/e

    During the forthcoming MomenTUm, Eindhoven University of Technology will take the exceptional step of awarding two honorary doctorates - ...

  • 4 students in foreground at a research fair. One student holds laptop open while another student completes a demo. A line of posters on easel down the hall is visible in background

    HCI Students Present Research During MoM 2019

    The Undergraduate Research Symposium, or the "Meeting of the Minds," (MoM) is a university-wide celebration of undergraduate research. ...

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    CMU, Yixue Education Inc. Announce AI Research Project in Adaptive K-12 Education

    Yixue Education Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University have announced a new multiyear partnership highlighted by a comprehensive artificial i...

  • Jason Wu stands in front of glass wall in FIG lab covered with colorful writing in dry erase markers

    Wu Receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

    Jason Wu, first year human-computer interaction Ph.D. student, received a 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foun...

  • the view of the back two young boys interacting with a touchscreen tablet sitting on a plastic table

    RoboTutor Team Awaits Global Learning XPRIZE Results

    Winning Team Gets $10 Million, but Ultimate Goal Is Boosting Literacy for Millions Worldwide Team members of RoboTutor LLC — who have sp...

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    OpenSimon Toolkit To Make Every Classroom a Learning Laboratory

    Carnegie Mellon’s learning engineering techniques, tools and materials now openly available Carnegie Mellon University has launched OpenS...

  • 6 doctors and nurses stand around the end of a table looking at charts, graphs and a laptop

    Researchers Make Transformational AI Seem "Unremarkable"

    AI Must Be Unobtrusive To Be Accepted as Part of Clinical Decision Making Physicians making life-and-death decisions about organ transp...

  • Five 1D linear forms were morphed into 3D line sculptures once triggered with heat. One curls up to hold a blue flower

    5 Papers from Morphing Matter Lab Accepted to CHI 2019

    The Morphing Matter Lab from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is presenting five papers at CHI 2019....

  • collage of 20+ hand gestures recognized and logged by the sensors

    Show Your Hands: Smartwatches Sense Hand Activity

    Devices That Know What Your Hands Are Doing Could Unlock New Apps We've become accustomed to our smartwatches and smartphones sensing wh...

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    HCII Researchers Make Soft, Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines

    Carnegie Mellon University researchers have used computationally controlled knitting machines to create plush toys and other knitted obje...

  • Knit 1, Purl 2: Assembly Instructions for a Robot?

  • Kiesler Named University Professor

    Sara Kiesler, Hillman Professor Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction, has been named a Carnegie Mellon University Pr...

  • 2019 CHI Logo - weaving the threads of CHI

    HCII Research at CHI 2019

    Thousands of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing ...

  • six people from CMU MHCI stand with rep from UPMC Foundation for check presentation at UPMC Children's Hospital

    MHCI Students Raised Over $6,000 for Extra Life in 2018

    A group of masters students recently traveled to Lawrenceville to present a large check to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundatio...

  • 4 photos of the winners arranged in a square, clockwise from top left: Kittur, Bigham, Myers and Koedinger

    Four Receive Google Faculty Research Awards in HCI

    Four faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2018 Google Faculty Research Awards.

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    Tablet Prototype Senses Context to Provide Posture-Aware UI

    The research paper “Sensing Posture-Aware Pen+Touch Interaction on Tablets” received an Honorable Mention award at CHI 2019.  Lead a...

  • Collage of 3 photos from the SCS awards ceremony. Queenie and Geoff wearing gold crowns, Queenie and group on stage, Diana and Jessica with her award in Jessica's office afterward

    Two HCII Staff Win 2019 SCS Awards

    The eighth annual School of Computer Science Founders Day celebration took place on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at 4:00 p.m. The event was hos...