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Thermorph: Flat Materials Self-Fold When Heated
NEWSResearchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used an inexpensive 3-D printer to produce flat plastic items that, when heated, fold thems...
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Paint Job Transforms Walls Into Sensors, Interactive Surfaces
NEWSSmart Walls React to Human Touch, Sense Activity in Room Walls are what they are — big, dull dividers. With a few applications of conduct...
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Digital Exhibit Labels: Enhancement or Distraction for Museum Visitors
NEWSDoes a touchscreen display distract visitors from the cultural museum artifacts it supports? A team of learning scientists and computer ...
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Crowd Workers, AI Make Conversational Agents Smarter
NEWSConversational agents such as Siri, Alexa and Cortana are great at giving you the weather, but flummoxed when asked for unusual informatio...
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HCII at CHI 2018
NEWSOver 3,000 of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to Montréal this week for CHI 2018, the ACM CHI Confer...
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Sara Kiesler Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
NEWSSara Kiesler, Hillman Chair Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has be...
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PhD and Postdoc Win Gold Awards at Reimagine Education Competition
NEWSUsing mixed-reality to reimagine the classroom from both sides -- an Intelligent Science Station for students and smart glasses for teache...
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HCII Team Tests Fitness Tracker for Wheelchair Athletes at NWBT
NEWS“It’s like all of March Madness in one weekend,” said Patrick Carrington, postdoctoral research fellow at the Human-Computer Interaction I...
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The Shape of Pasta: HCII Assistant Professor Morphs Matter
NEWSLining Yao came of age in a small village in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Like most families in her town, she didn't have a...
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Support HCI Team and Stroke Patients by Voting in Chasing Genius Innovation Challenge
NEWSUprooting beets on an augmented reality farm could soon help recovering stroke victims improve their motor skills if a team of human-compu...
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Blanket Statements: Covering a Quarter-Century of Wearable Tech
NEWSLook closer -- the sixteen squares of a quilt found in 3513 Newell-Simon Hall share a quarter-century of technological developments and th...
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