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
September 30, 2020
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September 28, 2020
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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
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
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
July 31, 2020
From 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
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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More than 1 in 10 Airbnb guests have found hidden cameras in their rooms, ... Read more
June 26, 2020
Professor Jason Hong was awarded a 2019 Amazon Research Award in support of the project "Designing Alternative ... Read more
June 25, 2020
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
... Read moreJune 5, 2020
Contact-tracing could help curb the spread of COVID-19. While the process can be performed manually, researchers have suggested that
... Read moreMay 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
May 29, 2020
Faced with a common peril, people delay making
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
... Read moreMay 11, 2020
Carnegie Mellon University's School of ... Read more
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
... Read moreApril 29, 2020
Food plays a big role in our health, and for that reason many people trying to improve their diet often track what
... Read moreApril 28, 2020
Today's virtual reality systems can create immersive visual experiences, but seldom do they enable users to feel
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