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Ahuja and Pareddy are Finalists in Collegiate Inventors Competition
NEWSKaran Ahuja and Sujeath Pareddy, HCI PhD students at Carnegie Mellon University, are finalists in the 2020 Collegiate Inventors Competition. Their LightAnchors project is one of only five ...
Hammer Receives Global Women in Games Hall of Fame Award
NEWSJessica Hammer, Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science, was named to the Global Women in Games Hall of Fame last week. Hammer holds a joint appointment with the HCI...
Live-Streamed Game Collects Sounds To Help Train Home-Based Artificial Intelligence
NEWSFrom yawning to closing the fridge door, a lot of sounds occur within the home. Such sounds could be useful for home-based artificial intelligence applications, but training that AI requ...
More than Human-Centred Design: CMU at DIS 2020
NEWSLike many other conferences this year, the 2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held virtually in July. The theme for the online event was "More than Human-Center...
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...