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Fifty Years Into "Picturephones," CMU Revamps Original Machine With Modern Twist
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Zazzle Uses MHCI Capstone Ideas To Create New Products
NEWSWuyang 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...
Perception of Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Contact-Tracing Apps Key to Widespread Adoption
NEWSCMU 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 ...
Study Questions Benefits of Social Networks to Disaster Response
NEWSCommunication 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...
HCII Responds to the Pandemic
NEWSAs stay-at-home orders swept across the country during the Covid-19 pandemic, our researchers answered the call to help others....
Self-Healing Devices Gain or Regain Function After Being Cut
NEWSA "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
NEWSHCI 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...
New AI Enables Teachers To Rapidly Develop Intelligent Tutoring Systems
NEWSIntelligent 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...
FitByte Uses Sensors on Eyeglasses To Automatically Monitor Diet
NEWSCMU 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...
New Device Simulates Feel of Walls, Solid Objects in Virtual Reality
NEWSStrings 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...
