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    Fifty Years Into "Picturephones," CMU Revamps Original Machine With Modern Twist

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  • 6 capstone teammates sit on floor below a large affinity diagram on the infamous 'MHCI green wall'

    Zazzle Uses MHCI Capstone Ideas To Create New Products

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    Wuyang Wang knew she got lucky last year. Then a student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute's (HCII) Master of Human-Computer Interaction program (MHCI), she was assigned to a ca...

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    Perception of Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Contact-Tracing Apps Key to Widespread Adoption

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    CMU Researchers Find Users Prefer Centralized System Contact-tracing could help curb the spread of COVID-19. While the process can be performed manually, researchers have suggested that ...

  • Hirokazu Shirado stands in hallway between Gates and NSH buildings

    Study Questions Benefits of Social Networks to Disaster Response

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    Communication Within Groups Not as Helpful as Anticipated Faced with a common peril, people delay making decisions that might save lives, fail to alert each other to danger and sprea...

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    HCII Responds to the Pandemic

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    As stay-at-home orders swept across the country during the Covid-19 pandemic, our researchers answered the call to help others....

  • a heart covered in the self-hearling polymer has been sliced in half

    Self-Healing Devices Gain or Regain Function After Being Cut

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    A "smart" polymer cast that automatically seals itself around a broken arm, a membrane that can sense where it has been cut, and pneumatic actuators that can be cut and reconfigured into ...

  • Carnegie Mellon Launches New Undergraduate Degree in Human-Computer Interaction

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    HCI Major Addresses Growing Demand for Expertise in Technology and Design Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) will offer a new undergraduate degree in human-com...

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    New AI Enables Teachers To Rapidly Develop Intelligent Tutoring Systems

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    Intelligent tutoring systems have been shown to be effective in helping to teach certain subjects, such as algebra or grammar, but creating these computerized systems is difficult and lab...

  • A person sitting at table eating bite of food. There is a small sensor on the side of their glasses

    FitByte Uses Sensors on Eyeglasses To Automatically Monitor Diet

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    CMU Researchers Propose Multimodal System To Track Foods, Liquid Intake Food plays a big role in our health, and for that reason many people trying to improve their diet often track what...

  • student wearing VR headset on face touches the face of a lion statue while wires connect fingers to the Wireality device on her shoulder

    New Device Simulates Feel of Walls, Solid Objects in Virtual Reality

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    Strings Attached to Hand, Fingers Create More Realistic Haptic Feedback Today's virtual reality systems can create immersive visual experiences, but seldom do they enable users to feel a...

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    Virtual Talks from CHI 2020

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  • HCII logo and CHI 2020 logo with Hawaiian flower side by side

    HCII Research Accepted to CHI 2020

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