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Five SCS Students Named Siebel Scholars
September 28, 2020
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Hammer Receives Global Women in Games Hall of Fame Award
September 17, 2020
Jessica Hammer, Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science, was named to the Global Women in Games Hall of Fame last week. Hammer holds a joint appointment with the HCII and ... Read more
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More than Human-Centred Design: CMU at DIS 2020
July 31, 2020
Like many other conferences this year, the 2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held virtually in July. The theme for the online event was "More than ... Read more
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Live-Streamed Game Collects Sounds To Help Train Home-Based Artificial Intelligence
July 31, 2020
... Read moreFrom yawning to closing the fridge door, a lot of sounds occur within the home. Such sounds could be useful for home-based artificial intelligence applications, but training that AI requires a robust and diverse set of samples. A video game developed by
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Video Game Teaches Productive Civil Discourse and Overcoming Tribalism
July 10, 2020
How can students learn to make their civil discourse more productive? One Carnegie Mellon University researcher proposes an AI-powered video game. The educational system targeted toward high schoolers adapts to
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Shedding Light (and Sound) on Hidden IoT Devices in Your Next Hotel Room
June 26, 2020
More than 1 in 10 Airbnb guests have found hidden cameras in their rooms, ... Read more
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Hong Receives 2019 Amazon Research Award
June 26, 2020
Professor Jason Hong was awarded a 2019 Amazon Research Award in support of the project "Designing Alternative ... Read more
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Fifty Years Into "Picturephones," CMU Revamps Original Machine With Modern Twist
June 25, 2020
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Zazzle Uses MHCI Capstone Ideas To Create New Products
June 18, 2020
Wuyang Wang knew she got lucky last year. Then a student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute's (HCII) Master of Human-Computer Interaction
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Perception of Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Contact-Tracing Apps Key to Widespread Adoption
June 5, 2020
CMU Researchers Find Users Prefer Centralized System
Contact-tracing could help curb the spread of COVID-19. While the process can be performed manually, researchers have suggested that
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HCII Responds to the Pandemic
May 29, 2020
As stay-at-home orders swept across the country during the Covid-19 pandemic, our researchers answered the call to help others.
When the campus announced it would close, they packed up and relocated the ... Read more
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Study Questions Benefits of Social Networks to Disaster Response
May 29, 2020
Communication Within Groups Not as Helpful as Anticipated
... Read moreFaced with a common peril, people delay making
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Self-Healing Devices Gain or Regain Function After Being Cut
May 15, 2020
A "smart" polymer cast that automatically seals itself around a broken arm, a membrane that can sense where it has been cut, and pneumatic actuators that can be cut and reconfigured into different shapes are some possible
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Carnegie Mellon Launches New Undergraduate Degree in Human-Computer Interaction
May 11, 2020
HCI Major Addresses Growing Demand for Expertise in Technology and Design
Carnegie Mellon University's School of ... Read more
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New AI Enables Teachers To Rapidly Develop Intelligent Tutoring Systems
April 30, 2020
Intelligent tutoring systems have been shown to be effective in helping to teach certain subjects, such as algebra or grammar, but creating these computerized systems is difficult and laborious. Now, researchers at Carnegie
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FitByte Uses Sensors on Eyeglasses To Automatically Monitor Diet
April 29, 2020
CMU Researchers Propose Multimodal System To Track Foods, Liquid Intake
Food plays a big role in our health, and for that reason many people trying to improve their diet often track what
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New Device Simulates Feel of Walls, Solid Objects in Virtual Reality
April 28, 2020
Strings Attached to Hand, Fingers Create More Realistic Haptic Feedback
Today's virtual reality systems can create immersive visual experiences, but seldom do they enable users to feel
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HCII Research Accepted to CHI 2020
April 27, 2020
The international ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known as CHI) was scheduled to take place this week in Honolulu, Hawaii ... Read more
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Virtual Talks from CHI 2020
April 27, 2020
The 2020 international ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) was scheduled to take place this week (April 25 to 30, 2020 ... Read more
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Jason Hong Named to CHI Academy
April 27, 2020
Professor Jason Hong has been named to the 2020 CHI Academy, an honorary group of ... Read more
