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  • Sven Mayer looks inside an Enigma machine

    Inside the Enigma Machine

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    Researchers had a rare opportunity to peek "under the hood" of the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries' two Enigma machines, opening the World War II-era machines to photograph their care...

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    New Technology Makes Internet Memes Accessible for People With Visual Impairments

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    CMU Researchers Develop System to Identify and Translate Memes People with visual impairments use social media like everyone else, often with the help of screen reader software. But th...

  • students stack a pile of boxes in the arms of a teammate to illustate the burden of being a caregiver during a capstone presentation

    Inviting Clients for 2020 HCI Capstone Projects

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    The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 2020 projects. ...

  • faculty advisor and student at poster session

    HCII Seeks Applicants for 2020 Summer Research Program

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    Carnegie Mellon's Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Human-Computer Interaction program is an opportunity for undergraduate students to spend a summer working with some of the worl...

  • guests watch the HCII retrospective video inside the Warhol auditorium

    Retrospective video debuts at HCII 25th anniversary party

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    In 1994, a group of Carnegie Mellon University faculty members created an interdisciplinary, collaborative institute (that's us!) to integrate the previously siloed areas of computer scien...

  • 5 directors of the HCII stand in front of a banner and hold silver 25 balloons during the HCIIs 25th anniversary celebration

    Celebrating 25 Years of the HCII

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    Almost 400 people celebrated the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s 25th anniversary on October 24 and 25, 2019 at Carnegie Mellon University. ...

  • Patrick Carrington and others working at the ChairJam hackathon

    ChairJam Puts Spin on Hackathon Concept

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    Amelia Li is threading wires into bits of hardware scattered on a table. As she alternates between red, yellow, blue and green, the master's student of entertainment technology at Carnegie...

  • One-dimensional, "line"-shaped plastic structures produced with the A-line system can bend, fold and twist themselves into predetermined shapes when triggered by heat.

    One-Dimensional Objects Morph Into New Dimensions

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    A line is the shortest distance between two points, but "A-line," a 4D printing system developed at Carnegie Mellon University, takes a more circuitous route. One-dimensional, "line"-sha...

  • Five SCS graduate students have been named 2020 Siebel Scholars: Amadou Latyr Ngom, Junpei Zhou and Eric Wong (top), and Ken Holstein and Michael Madaio (bottom).

    SCS Students Named 2020 Siebel Scholars

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    Six Carnegie Mellon University students — five of them from the School of Computer Science — have been named 2020 Siebel Scholars, a highly competitive award that supports top graduate s...

  • Bruce McLaren

    McLaren Will Promote Educational Technology in Chile on Fulbright

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    Fulbright Program Sponsors Three-Month Sojourn in Valparaiso...

  • image of gym weight room featuring GymCam green rectangle overlays that recognize exercise motions

    GymCam Tracks Exercises That Wearable Monitors Can’t

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    Algorithm Enables Cameras To Recognize Distinctive Exercise Motions...

  • side by side photo of 2 faculty members: Forlizzi on the left and Zimmerman on the right

    Zimmerman, Forlizzi Co-Author Encyclopedia Chapter

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    The newest chapter of the online Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Edition was written by HCII professors John Zimmerman and Jodi Forlizzi....