News & Events
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HCII Announces DEI Committee and Fund
Founding a new committee while working remotely during a pandemic might not sound like ideal timing, but those challenges have not...
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Team Receives $2.3M from NSF for Intelligent Science Stations
A team of Human-Computer Interaction Institute researchers composed of Systems Scientist Nesra Yannier (PI) and Professors Ken Koedinger (...
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Two SCS Students Win 2020 Google PhD Fellowships
Abdelkareem Bedri and Anjalie Field, Ph.D. students in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the Language Technologies Inst...
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MML Video Explores Morphing Matter From Home
In a typical year, Assistant Professor Lining Yao and some of her students would travel to Linz, Austria, to attend Ars Electronic...
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FIG Lab Receives 4 Innovation by Design Awards
Four projects from the HCII's Future Interfaces Group (FIG Lab) were honored by Fast Company's 2020 Innovation by Design Awards. ...
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Jin Receives 2020 UbiComp Outstanding Student Award
Haojian Jin, fifth year PhD student, received the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award on Thursday, September 17, 2020, dur...
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Hammer Receives Global Women in Games Hall of Fame Award
Jessica Hammer, Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science, was named to the Global Women in Games Hall of Fame last w...
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More than Human-Centred Design: CMU at DIS 2020
Like many other conferences this year, the 2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held virtually in July. The them...
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Live-Streamed Game Collects Sounds To Help Train Home-Based Artificial Intelligence
From yawning to closing the fridge door, a lot of sounds occur within the home. Such sounds could be useful for home-based artificial in...
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Video Game Teaches Productive Civil Discourse and Overcoming Tribalism
How can students learn to make their civil discourse more productive? One Carnegie Mellon University researcher proposes an AI-po...
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Hong Receives 2019 Amazon Research Award
Professor Jason Hong was awarded a 2019 Amazon Research Award in support of the project "Designing Alternative Representations of ...
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Fifty Years Into "Picturephones," CMU Revamps Original Machine With Modern Twist
"Some people in Pittsburgh are seeing voices."
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Perception of Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Contact-Tracing Apps Key to Widespread Adoption
CMU Researchers Find Users Prefer Centralized System Contact-tracing could help curb the spread of COVID-19. While the process can be pe...
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Study Questions Benefits of Social Networks to Disaster Response
Communication Within Groups Not as Helpful as Anticipated Faced with a common peril, people delay making decisions that might s...
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HCII Responds to the Pandemic
As stay-at-home orders swept across the country during the Covid-19 pandemic, our researchers answered the call to help others. When the ...
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Self-Healing Devices Gain or Regain Function After Being Cut
A "smart" polymer cast that automatically seals itself around a broken arm, a membrane that can sense where it has been cut, and pneumati...
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Carnegie Mellon Launches New Undergraduate Degree in Human-Computer Interaction
HCI Major Addresses Growing Demand for Expertise in Technology and Design
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New AI Enables Teachers To Rapidly Develop Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Intelligent tutoring systems have been shown to be effective in helping to teach certain subjects, such as algebra or grammar, but creati...
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FitByte Uses Sensors on Eyeglasses To Automatically Monitor Diet
CMU Researchers Propose Multimodal System To Track Foods, Liquid Intake Food plays a big role in our health, and for that reason many pe...
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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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