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    Carnegie Mellon Names 2025 University Professors

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    Three Carnegie Mellon University faculty members have been chosen to receive the title of University Professor in 2025. University Professors are internationally recognized leaders in thei...

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    Purpose Mode Helps Social Media Users Stay Focused on Their Desired Tasks

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    If you’re an active user of social media platforms, chances are you’ve felt distracted on more than one occasion while staring at your phone or tablet....

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    Working With AI

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    Chatbot companions, generated videos, banking software and homework help. Artificial intelligence software has found its way into more and more aspects of daily life. But for these systems...

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    SCS Tool Improves Community Buy-In for Policy Decisions

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    Community policies, such as those for zoning or parking, are typically made at the top, which can leave community members feeling frustrated or left out of the process. Researchers at Carn...

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    Harrison Earns Teaching Innovation Award at Celebration of Education

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    The HCII's Chris Harrison received CMU's 2025 Teaching Innovation Award to recognize his transformative work on the course "Designing Human-Centered Software."Chris Harrison, an associate ...

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    Researchers Create Flat-to-Shape Objects With Computer-Controlled Sewing

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    Researchers from the Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University introduced a novel method for fabricating functional flat-to-shap...

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    CMU at CHI 2025

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    Our halls are abuzz with talk of “CHI” (pronounced “kai”), the nickname for the upcoming conference on computer human interaction (CHI)....

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    CMU Launches Human-Centered AI Research Center with Seoul National University

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    Carnegie Mellon University and Seoul National University (SNU) have announced a new collaboration to advance human-centered artificial intelligence research that prioritizes human well-bei...

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    Up Next in Special Topics

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    Our Special Topics courses provide the opportunity to explore the future of human-computer interaction, guided by the experts who are shaping the field of HCI....

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    VR/AR Could Help People Manage Everyday Stressors

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    A new project from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute studied whether virtual and augmented reality can simulate stressful situations — like being at a social event with strangers — ...

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    Using Virtual Reality to Connect Players With Ocean Ecosystems

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    Fewer people have been to the deepest parts of the ocean than have walked on the surface of the moon. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Transformational Play are hopin...

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    Protecting Audio Privacy at the Source

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    A team of SCS researchers have created an on-device filter that can detect and delete human speech segments that audio sensors collect before they're used for activity recognition.Sound is...