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    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....

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    HCI Class Project Turned Entrepreneurship Lesson for Dedicated METALS Students

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    The work began as a group project for an elective HCI course. ...

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    Online Atlas of Aquatic Insects Aids Water-Quality Monitoring

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    New 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...

  • 4 students in foreground at a research fair. One student holds laptop open while another student completes a demo. A line of posters on easel down the hall is visible in background

    HCI Students Present Research During MoM 2019

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    The 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...

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    CMU, Yixue Education Inc. Announce AI Research Project in Adaptive K-12 Education

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    Yixue Education Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University have announced a new multiyear partnership highlighted by a comprehensive artificial intelligence research lab....

  • Jason Wu stands in front of glass wall in FIG lab covered with colorful writing in dry erase markers

    Wu Receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

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    Jason Wu, first year human-computer interaction Ph.D. student, received a 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation....

  • Kiesler Named University Professor

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    Sara 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...

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    RoboTutor Team Awaits Global Learning XPRIZE Results

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    Winning 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...

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    OpenSimon Toolkit To Make Every Classroom a Learning Laboratory

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    Carnegie Mellon’s learning engineering techniques, tools and materials now openly available Carnegie Mellon University has launched OpenSimon — a learning engineering community that will ...

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    Researchers Make Transformational AI Seem "Unremarkable"

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    AI 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...

  • image on left: bunny knit out of blue yarn. image on right: when responsive fibers on belly are poked, bunny responds with hugging motion

    HCII Researchers Make Soft, Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines

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    Carnegie 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?

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    HCII Researchers Make Soft, Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines ...