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