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EM-Sense Wins Fast Company Innovation by Design Award

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EM-Sense Hand on Door

EM-Sense, a technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research for automatically identifying an electrical or electromagnetic device that a person is touching, is the student category winner of Fast Company magazine's prestigious Innovation by Design Awards.

The technology was invented by a team that included Gierad Laput and Robert Xiao, both Ph.D. students in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. Other team members are Chris Harrison, assistant professor in the HCII; and Alanson Sample and Chouchang Yang of Disney Research.

Read the full story on the School of Computer Science site.

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