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Online Atlas of Aquatic Insects Aids Water-Quality Monitoring
June 20, 2019
New Tool Helps Even Novices Identify Insects Inhabiting Streams, Lakes and Rivers
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Forlizzi To Receive Honorary Doctorate from TU/e
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
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HCI Students Present Research During MoM 2019
June 3, 2019
The Undergraduate Research Symposium, or the "Meeting of the Minds," (MoM) is a university-wide celebration of undergraduate research. More ... Read more
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CMU, Yixue Education Inc. Announce AI Research Project in Adaptive K-12 Education
May 30, 2019
Yixue Education Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University have announced a new multiyear partnership highlighted by a comprehensive artificial intelligence research lab.
The CMU-Squirrel AI Research Lab on Personalized Education at Scale will develop new ways for AI, ... Read more
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Wu Receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
May 29, 2019
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RoboTutor Team Awaits Global Learning XPRIZE Results
May 13, 2019
Winning Team Gets $10 Million, but Ultimate Goal Is Boosting Literacy for Millions Worldwide
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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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Show Your Hands: Smartwatches Sense Hand Activity
May 7, 2019
Devices That Know What Your Hands Are Doing Could Unlock New Apps
We've become accustomed to our smartwatches and smartphones sensing what our bodies are doing, be it walking, driving or
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5 Papers from Morphing Matter Lab Accepted to CHI 2019
May 7, 2019
The Morphing Matter Lab from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is presenting five papers at ... 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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Carnegie Mellon to Release Digital Learning Software Tools as Open-Source
March 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
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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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