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  • A collage of 3 images shows the iteration and progression of ideas from a recent undergraduate project. The 3 images shown in this square image -- a digital board with notes, to black and white sketches, to the final colored design of a mobile screen mockup – are separated by thin, grey diagonal lines.

    HCII Seeks Capstone Sponsors for Spring 2024

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    Apply our future HCI leaders to your organization's challenges next year The Human-Computer Interaction Institute invites companies, startups and nonprofits alike to sponsor a Capstone pr...

  • SCS graduate students Lea Albaugh, Paul Pu Liang (top) and Maxwell Jones, Shih-Lun Wu and Bailey Flanigan (bottom) have been named Siebel Scholars for 2024. (Image courtesy of Siebel Scholars.)

    Five SCS Students Named 2024 Siebel Scholars

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    Five graduate students in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have been named Siebel Scholars for 2024. Lea Albaugh, Bailey Flanigan, Maxwell Jones, Paul Pu Liang and S...

  • ANTprivacy.org provides thousands of charts, providing visitors with an easy-to-understand roadmap of how apps collect and share data. In this example, the chart highlights TikTok’s data collection practices, revealing that the social media app collects network, device, and general data, which is then sent to four cloud services owned by a total of three companies.

    New website highlights thousands of Android apps’ data collection practices

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    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have launched a new website, offering Android users an easy and convenient way to see how their data is collected and shared....

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    Understanding Data Science Critical for Life, Education

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    CMU experts turn everyday educators into data scientists Teachers and administrators have access to more data on how their students are learning than ever before. Through learning managem...

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    Yao’s Seed Carrier Shortlisted for Science Breakthrough of the Year Award

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    Lining Yao, the Cooper-Siegel associate professor in the School of Computer Science's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and her E-seed research project are among the top 10 finalists f...

  • collage of 13 portraits of our graduating PhD students and postdocs leaving as of spring 2023

    Celebrating Our Recent PhD Graduates and Postdocs

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    With another academic year behind us, it is time to wish a new class of graduates well on their professional journey. The HCII is proud to celebrate our recent PhDs and Postdocs as they b...

  • Personalized Learning Squared uses software from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute's LearnLab to connect students and tutors, providing real-time data about each student's activity so tutors can assist, if necessary.

    CMU's PLUS Program Expands to Multiple Schools, Community Centers

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    Not all students will ask for help when they're struggling, but more of them can get the support they need thanks to the expanded reach of education software designed by Carnegie Mellon Un...

  • SCS researchers worked with Black girls to better understand their ideas about AI. As part of the research, the girls designed humanoid AI-powered robots, which displayed hairstyles similar to the learners’ — a robot representation not often shown in popular media.

    AI Should Be Kind and Fair, Young Black Girls Tell CMU Researchers

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    When asked about future uses for artificial intelligence, a group of fifth- and sixth-grade Black students attending a summer camp at Carnegie Mellon University had some unique ideas. One ...

  • Our faculty and students routinely earn top honors for their research and teaching excellence. We celebrate their successes and value their contributions to furthering computer science and its related fields.

    Spring 2023 Awards Roundup

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    SCS faculty and students win awards, grants and recognition every day. Here's a look — neither exhaustive nor abbreviated — at who won what this semester. Keep an eye out at the end of the...

  • Norman Bier and John Stamper stand on the concrete steps in front of the CMU Mellon College of Science building

    CMU Team Wins $1M XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge

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    Carnegie Mellon University learning science researchers John Stamper, Norman Bier and Steven Moore are part of a team that won first place in the XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge, a comp...

  • Researchers in the HCII used comics to explore how community-centered AI design can include both the people experiencing homelessness and the frontline workers who use AI to help them.

    CMU Researchers Use Comics To Explain AI-Supported Public Housing System to People Who Need It Most

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    As artificial intelligence becomes more accessible and prevalent in everyday life, the humans who use it should still be central to its implementation, even if they don't have a technical ...

  • The AI Institute for Societal Decision Making will improve the response to societal challenges such as disaster management and public health by creating human-centric AI tools to assist with critical decisions. The institute will also develop training to bolster effective and rapid response in uncertain and dynamic situations.

    Carnegie Mellon Leads NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making

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    Artificial intelligence tools have increasingly aided emergency managers, public health officials and other professionals tasked with making critical and timely decisions that directly imp...