Nagashima Receives Award at AECT 2020
November 5, 2020
Tomohiro Nagashima, HCI Ph.D. student, received the “Nova Southeastern University Award for Outstanding Practice” at the 2020 Association for Educational Communications and ... Read more
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HCII Announces DEI Committee and Fund
November 2, 2020
Founding a new committee while working remotely during a pandemic might not sound like ideal timing, but those challenges have not stopped a passionate group of faculty, staff ... Read more
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Team Receives $2.3M from NSF for Intelligent Science Stations
October 20, 2020
A team of Human-Computer Interaction Institute researchers composed of Systems Scientist Nesra Yannier (PI) and Professors Ken Koedinger (Co-PI) and ... Read more
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Two SCS Students Win 2020 Google PhD Fellowships
October 8, 2020
Abdelkareem Bedri and Anjalie Field, Ph.D. students in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the Language Technologies Institute, respectively, are recipients of 2020 Google Ph.D. Fellowships. They are among 53 recipients this ... Read more
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MML Video Explores Morphing Matter From Home
October 2, 2020
In a typical year, Assistant Professor Lining Yao and some of her students would travel to Linz, Austria, to attend Ars ... Read more
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FIG Lab Receives 4 Innovation by Design Awards
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.
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Ahuja and Pareddy are Finalists in Collegiate Inventors Competition
September 30, 2020
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Five SCS Students Named Siebel Scholars
September 28, 2020
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Jin Receives 2020 UbiComp Outstanding Student Award
September 18, 2020
Haojian Jin, fifth year PhD student, received the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award on Thursday, September 17, 2020, during the virtual ... Read more
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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 ... 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
