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  • 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...

  • image on left: bunny knit out of blue yarn. image on right: when responsive fibers on belly are poked, bunny responds with hugging motion

    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.

  • collage of 7 pictures of various display options from the posture-aware UI prototype

    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...

  • Ken Koedinger converses with others in the hallway during the LearnLab summer school poster session

    Two Research Projects To Close 'Opportunity Gap' for Students

    A pair of separate, but complementary, research projects led by Carnegie Mellon University will use cutting-edge research in motivation, t...

  • Carnegie Mellon University stone sign in the foreground, people walking up steps in the background

    Carnegie Mellon to Release Digital Learning Software Tools as Open-Source

    In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it ...

  • Lining Yao stands in the Morphing Matter Lab holding a white shapeshifting flower

    HCII Faculty Yao and Zimmerman to Speak at SXSW2019

    Carnegie Mellon University students, faculty and alumni will be among the thousands descending onto Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest ...

  • Hong, Zhang, Kraut and Siewiorek stand side by side, smiling

    New Junior Professorships Honor Two Longtime HCII Faculty Members

    Jason Hong and His Wife, Shelley Zhang, Endow Two Junior Professorships The sale of Wombat Security Technologies to Proofpoint Inc. ...

  • Tom and Lydia Moran stand behind professors Jessica Hammer and Amy Ogan (seated)

    Hammer, Ogan Accept Moran Professorships

    Jessica Hammer and Amy Ogan, faculty members in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), received the inaugural Thomas and Lydia ...

  • Kiesler Elected to National Academy of Engineering

    Sara Kiesler, Hillman Chair Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has b...

  • a colorful lightbulb floats above a hand on a blue background

    Scaling Up Search for Analogies Could Be Key to Innovation

    AI, Crowdsourcing Can Identify Insights That Lead to Breakthroughs Investment in research is at an all-time high, yet the rate of scien...

  • black and white photo of 2 students and 2 alum on planning committee of Pittsburgh's Racial Justice Summit 2019

    CMU Joins Pittsburgh Community at Racial Justice Summit

    By Michael Henninger Kevin Jarbo used to take the bus from his apartment in the Hill District, one of Pittsburgh's predominantly black ...

  • side by side images: left image of a seated person hunched over a desk; right image a line drawing of the person with RFID sensor tags on spine

    RFID Tag Arrays Track Body Movements, Shape Changes

    Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found ways to track body movements and detect shape changes using arrays of radio-frequency i...