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EduSense: Like a Fitbit for Your Teaching Skills
NEWSWhile training and feedback opportunities abound for K-12 educators, the same can't be said for instructors in higher education. Currently, the most effective mechanism for professional de...
Inside the Enigma Machine
NEWSResearchers 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...
New Technology Makes Internet Memes Accessible for People With Visual Impairments
NEWSCMU 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...
Inviting Clients for 2020 HCI Capstone Projects
NEWSThe Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 2020 projects. ...
HCII Seeks Applicants for 2020 Summer Research Program
NEWSCarnegie 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...
Retrospective video debuts at HCII 25th anniversary party
NEWSIn 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...
Celebrating 25 Years of the HCII
NEWSAlmost 400 people celebrated the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s 25th anniversary on October 24 and 25, 2019 at Carnegie Mellon University. ...
ChairJam Puts Spin on Hackathon Concept
NEWSAmelia 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 Objects Morph Into New Dimensions
NEWSA 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...
SCS Students Named 2020 Siebel Scholars
NEWSSix 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...
McLaren Will Promote Educational Technology in Chile on Fulbright
NEWSFulbright Program Sponsors Three-Month Sojourn in Valparaiso...
GymCam Tracks Exercises That Wearable Monitors Can’t
NEWSAlgorithm Enables Cameras To Recognize Distinctive Exercise Motions...