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  • 4 images: 3D printed mask, a chart, illustration of student high fiveing teacher & US map counties

    HCII Responds to the Pandemic

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    As stay-at-home orders swept across the country during the Covid-19 pandemic, our researchers answered the call to help others. When the ...

  • a heart covered in the self-hearling polymer has been sliced in half

    Self-Healing Devices Gain or Regain Function After Being Cut

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    A "smart" polymer cast that automatically seals itself around a broken arm, a membrane that can sense where it has been cut, and pneumati...

  • Carnegie Mellon Launches New Undergraduate Degree in Human-Computer Interaction

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    HCI Major Addresses Growing Demand for Expertise in Technology and Design

  • screenshot of the multi step process of building the tutoring system

    New AI Enables Teachers To Rapidly Develop Intelligent Tutoring Systems

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    Intelligent tutoring systems have been shown to be effective in helping to teach certain subjects, such as algebra or grammar, but creati...

  • A person sitting at table eating bite of food. There is a small sensor on the side of their glasses

    FitByte Uses Sensors on Eyeglasses To Automatically Monitor Diet

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    CMU Researchers Propose Multimodal System To Track Foods, Liquid Intake Food plays a big role in our health, and for that reason many pe...

  • student wearing VR headset on face touches the face of a lion statue while wires connect fingers to the Wireality device on her shoulder

    New Device Simulates Feel of Walls, Solid Objects in Virtual Reality

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    Strings Attached to Hand, Fingers Create More Realistic Haptic Feedback Today's virtual reality systems can create immersive visual expe...

  • HCII and CHI logos side by side

    Virtual Talks from CHI 2020

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      The 2020 international ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) was scheduled to take place this week (April...

  • HCII logo and CHI 2020 logo with Hawaiian flower side by side

    HCII Research Accepted to CHI 2020

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      The international ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known as CHI) was scheduled to take place this we...

  • screenshot of the COVIDcast website: a map of the US with counties colored to show variations in COVID data

    Carnegie Mellon Unveils Five Interactive COVID-19 Maps

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    Carnegie Mellon University today unveiled five interactive maps displaying real-time information on symptoms, doctor visits, medical tes...

  • Jason Hong Named to CHI Academy

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      Professor Jason Hong has been named to the 2020 CHI Academy, an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributi...

  • Jessica Hammer

    Hammer Earns NSF CAREER Award

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    Jessica Hammer, the Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science in the School of Computer Science's Human-Computer Inte...

  • young student smiles while sitting at desk with laptop and extra screen and playing a game online

    Game Developers Level Up as COVID Pushes People Home

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    With many stuck in their homes as cities around the world try to reduce transmission of COVID-19, people are turning to games as a way to ...