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HCI Class Project Turned Entrepreneurship Lesson for Dedicated METALS Students
NEWSThe work began as a group project for an elective HCI course. ...
Online Atlas of Aquatic Insects Aids Water-Quality Monitoring
NEWSNew Tool Helps Even Novices Identify Insects Inhabiting Streams, Lakes and Rivers A new online field guide to aquatic insects in the eastern United States, macroinvertebrates.org, promise...
HCI Students Present Research During MoM 2019
NEWSThe Undergraduate Research Symposium, or the "Meeting of the Minds," (MoM) is a university-wide celebration of undergraduate research. More than 700 Carnegie Mellon University students, in...
CMU, Yixue Education Inc. Announce AI Research Project in Adaptive K-12 Education
NEWSYixue Education Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University have announced a new multiyear partnership highlighted by a comprehensive artificial intelligence research lab....
Wu Receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
NEWSJason Wu, first year human-computer interaction Ph.D. student, received a 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation....
Kiesler Named University Professor
NEWSSara Kiesler, Hillman Professor Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction, has been named a Carnegie Mellon University Professor. This is the highest distinction a faculty...
RoboTutor Team Awaits Global Learning XPRIZE Results
NEWSWinning Team Gets $10 Million, but Ultimate Goal Is Boosting Literacy for Millions Worldwide Team members of RoboTutor LLC — who have spent years developing open-source software that chi...
OpenSimon Toolkit To Make Every Classroom a Learning Laboratory
NEWSCarnegie Mellon’s learning engineering techniques, tools and materials now openly available Carnegie Mellon University has launched OpenSimon — a learning engineering community that will ...
Researchers Make Transformational AI Seem "Unremarkable"
NEWSAI Must Be Unobtrusive To Be Accepted as Part of Clinical Decision Making Physicians making life-and-death decisions about organ transplants, cancer treatments or heart surgeries typica...
HCII Researchers Make Soft, Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines
NEWSCarnegie Mellon University researchers have used computationally controlled knitting machines to create plush toys and other knitted objects that are actuated by tendons. It's an approach...
Knit 1, Purl 2: Assembly Instructions for a Robot?
NEWSHCII Researchers Make Soft, Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines ...
HCII Research at CHI 2019
NEWSThousands of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known as CHI) this weekend. The prem...