August 17, 2021
Flat packed noodles that form iconic pasta shapes when cooked could lead to more sustainable packaging, transportation, and storage.
August 15, 2021
Questions about the future of the multi-billion smart technology industry that tracks what we are doing are more than theoretical in Pittsburgh. Researchers at places like Carnegie Mellon University are studying the implications of all this data collection and working to ... Read more
July 19, 2021
There’s something new rumbling and tumbling at CMA! If you’ve visited the museum lately you’ve seen children building towers and other structures out of blocks. That’s pretty common – we’re big block fans! But the friendly animated gorilla sharing challenges and feedback ... Read more
October 1, 2020
Four projects from the HCII's Future Interfaces Group (FIG Lab) were honored by Fast Company's 2020 Innovation by Design Awards.
Two projects were selected from both the ... Read more
March 11, 2020
Mayank Goel, assistant professor with the School of Computer Science's HCII and ISR, recently received a 2019 Human-Computer Interaction ... Read more
February 12, 2020
The American Association for the Advancement ... Read more
November 22, 2019
Last year, a team of CyLab researchers explored the account-sharing behaviors of romantic couples and found that ... Read more
June 6, 2019
During the forthcoming MomenTUm, Eindhoven University of Technology will take the exceptional step of awarding two honorary doctorates - this usually happens only during a lustrum year. This has been prompted by the remarkable quality of the
... Read moreMarch 27, 2019
In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code ... Read more
October 16, 2018
National Science Foundation awards universities $700,000 grant to kick off 3-year research project
SALT LAKE CITY — (October 15, 2018) The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Western Governors University’s ... Read more
October 15, 2018
Wick Editor, a free and open-source tool for creating games, animation and interactive media, is the winner of a $79,120 grant from the Mozilla Open Source Support program.
Started by recent Carnegie Mellon ... Read more
October 10, 2018
Jessica Zhang, a professor of mechanical engineering with a courtesy appointment in biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and ... Read more
August 28, 2018
Over the last two years, Bloomberg’s UX team has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University Master of Human-Computer Interaction program and visually impaired users to prototype next ... Read more
August 20, 2018
May 18, 2017
3D printing has been quietly moving towards a radical revolution over the past several years. While it has already exceeded 5.1 billion, its growth has been relatively slow, and not as disruptive as some might have envisioned. Instead, 3D printing has been advancing to ... Read more
May 16, 2017
What does a gorilla, toppling towers and a postdoctoral fellow from Carnegie Mellon University have in common? They are all part of the mixed platform game, NoRilla, that teachers young students physics. Nesra Yannier ... Read more
April 28, 2017
There's no such thing as a free lunch or a free service that bundles subscriptions, as was recently reaffirmed by Unroll.Me's media coverage. Unroll.Me is marketed as a free service that helps users manage and weed out junk mail, and recently came into the spotlight for ... Read more
March 9, 2017
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute's research project, Helping Hands, made an appearance in a recent Health Tech Insiders article. This project, led by HCII ... Read more
March 6, 2017
Why are community college students in online classes 4% more likely than their high-performing peers to drop out? This is what Barbara Illowsky, a mathematics professor and chief academic affairs officer at DeAnza College, wanted to know. The drop out rate for online ... Read more
December 13, 2016
In a recent article on CNBC, Assistant Professor Chinmay Kulkarni shared his research that is bringing together individuals with very different viewpoints. Kulkarni's research focuses on building technology that can support and improve how people live and learn. So he ... Read more
