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RoboTutor Team Awaits Global Learning XPRIZE Results
May 13, 2019
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OpenSimon Toolkit To Make Every Classroom a Learning Laboratory
May 10, 2019
Carnegie Mellon’s learning engineering techniques, tools and materials now openly available
Carnegie Mellon University has launched OpenSimon — a learning engineering community ... Read more
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Researchers Make Transformational AI Seem "Unremarkable"
May 8, 2019
AI Must Be Unobtrusive To Be Accepted as Part of Clinical Decision Making
Physicians making life-and-death decisions about organ transplants, cancer treatments or heart surgeries typically don't give much thought to how ... Read more
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HCII Researchers Make Soft, Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines
May 6, 2019
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have used computationally controlled knitting machines to create plush toys and
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Kiesler Named University Professor
May 3, 2019
Sara Kiesler, Hillman Professor Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction, has been named a Carnegie Mellon University Professor. ... Read more
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HCII Research at CHI 2019
April 29, 2019
Thousands of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known as CHI) this weekend. The premier ... Read more
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MHCI Students Raised Over $6,000 for Extra Life in 2018
April 25, 2019
A group of masters students recently traveled to Lawrenceville to present a large check to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation, a symbol of their successful fundraising efforts last semester.
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Four Receive Google Faculty Research Awards in HCI
April 24, 2019
Four faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2018 Google Faculty Research Awards. ... Read more
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Tablet Prototype Senses Context to Provide Posture-Aware UI
April 19, 2019
The research paper “Sensing Posture-Aware Pen+Touch Interaction on Tablets” received an Honorable Mention award at CHI 2019.
Lead author Yang Zhang, fourth year HCI Ph.D. student, led the research project while ... Read more
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Two HCII Staff Win 2019 SCS Awards
April 16, 2019
The eighth annual School of Computer Science Founders Day celebration took place on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at 4:00 p.m. The event was hosted by Tom ... Read more
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Two Research Projects To Close 'Opportunity Gap' for Students
April 12, 2019
A pair of separate, but complementary, research projects led by Carnegie Mellon University will use cutting-edge research in motivation, thinking, culturally affirming teaching and human-computer interaction to galvanize a community of teachers, mentors and parents ... Read more
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HCII Faculty Yao and Zimmerman to Speak at SXSW2019
March 8, 2019
Carnegie Mellon University students, faculty and alumni will be among the thousands descending onto Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest (SXSW) March 8-17, 2019.
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New Junior Professorships Honor Two Longtime HCII Faculty Members
March 4, 2019
... Read moreJason Hong and His Wife, Shelley Zhang, Endow Two Junior Professorships
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Hammer, Ogan Accept Moran Professorships
February 27, 2019
Jessica Hammer and Amy Ogan, faculty members in the Human-Computer
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Kiesler Elected to National Academy of Engineering
February 7, 2019
Sara Kiesler, Hillman Chair Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been elected to the
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Scaling Up Search for Analogies Could Be Key to Innovation
February 4, 2019
AI, Crowdsourcing Can Identify Insights That Lead to Breakthroughs
... Read moreInvestment in research is at an all-time high, yet the rate of scientific
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CMU Joins Pittsburgh Community at Racial Justice Summit
January 24, 2019
By mhenninger [at] cmu.edu (Michael Henninger)
Kevin Jarbo used to take the bus ... Read more
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RFID Tag Arrays Track Body Movements, Shape Changes
December 18, 2018
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found ways to track body movements and detect shape changes using arrays of radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. RFID-embedded clothing thus could be used to control avatars
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HCI students win Bose Challenge, Designing for Augmented Reality with Sound
December 6, 2018
More than 100 Carnegie Mellon University students participated in an on-campus challenge last month, designing solutions for an emerging field so new that the technology, a pair of Bose augmented ... Read more
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PhD students contribute to Fall ACM XRDS issue on The Computer Scientist
November 21, 2018
Four Ph.D. students from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute contributed to the Fall 2018 issue of XRDS (Crossroads), the ACM Magazine by students for students. XRDS is a quarterly ... Read more
