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  • side by side images of three current MHCI students and Rales Fellows Lizeth Anaya-Ojeda, Christian Johnson and Zoe Mercado

    Rales HCI Fellows Bring Inclusive Technology to the Forefront of Industry

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    The Carnegie Mellon University Rales Fellows Program brings together some of the brightest minds from underrepresented groups in academia....

  • A person wearing an orange apron sautees salmon in a skillet.

    Accessing Recipe Information Without Looking

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    SCS researchers interviewed home cooks who are either totally or legally blind and cooking instructors at a vision rehabilitation center to better understand how people with low or no visi...

  • A laptop screen displays what looks like medieval forces prepped for battle.

    SCS Research Highlights Kids' Role in AI

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    SCS faculty members recently hosted a series of workshops for middle and high school students to understand how young kids use generative AI tools.Seated at a laptop and surrounded by othe...

  • group photo of the summer 2024 researchers standing on a staircase outside

    HCII Seeks Applicants for 2025 Summer Research Program

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    Application available until mid-JanuaryThe Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) Summer Undergraduate Research program is an opportunity for students to spend a summer with us at Car...

  • A man with dark hair wears a virtual reality headset and touches his palm, which is superimposed with icons for popular smartphone apps.

    Future AR/VR Controllers Could Be the Palm of Your Hand

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    A new tool from researchers in CMU's Human-Computer Interaction Institute could put control for AR/VR environments in the palm of your hand.The new generation of augmented and virtual real...

  • 2 small flower pots created by 3D printing with spent coffee grounds

    Brewing Sustainability

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    CMU alum Mike Rivera powers up 3D printing with coffee groundsIt took a lot of coffee to power Mike Rivera’s push toward a doctorate degree in human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon...

  • the paper certificate the team received for their HCOMP 2024 Best Paper award

    HCII at HCOMP 2024

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    "Responsible Crowd Work for Better Artificial Intelligence (AI)” was the theme of the 12th annual AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) hosted here in Pittsburgh f...

  • Fall 2024 issue of The Link magazine on a table, the cover is a close up of the American flag

    HCII Highlights in The Link

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    The Link magazine from the CMU School of Computer Science is now available in mailboxes of alumni and friends, on newsstands in SCS campus buildings, and online. ...

  • Collaged headshots of the nine people who received Google Academic Research Awards.

    SCS Faculty Receive Google Academic Research Awards

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    Nine SCS faculty members have received Google Academic Research Awards: Paulo Carvalho, Motahhare Eslami, Ken Holstein, Zhihao Jia, Aniket Kittur, Ken Koedinger, Maarten Sap, Sherry Wu and...

  • side by side headshots of Ken Holstein and Hoda Heidari, HCII faculty who are co-PIs on this grant

    NIST Awards $6M to Carnegie Mellon University To Establish AI Cooperative Research Center

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    U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced Sept. 24 that the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $6 million to Carnegie Mello...

  • this image collage shows the progression of a past project (robot sprayer design) from brainstoming to low-fi to a colored mock up design on a screen

    HCII Seeks Capstone Sponsors for Spring 2025

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    Apply our future HCI leaders to your organization's challenges next year The Human-Computer Interaction Institute invites companies, startups and nonprofits alike to sponsor a Capstone pro...

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    CMU Students launch HCI Ideas Podcast and Cards

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    Four Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students took on a special project this summer to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII)....