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  • 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....

  • 4 members of the GoTracker team

    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. ...

  • screenshot of macroinvertebrates.org with close up of dorsal side of a common stonefly

    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...

  • student seated with legs crossed on the floor writing in notebook and laptop open on floor nearby

    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....