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EduSense: Like a Fitbit for Your Teaching Skills
While training and feedback opportunities abound for K-12 educators, the same can't be said for instructors in higher education. Currently...
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Block Center Podcast "Episode 4: Fair Enough"
Consequential is a podcast that looks at the human side of technological change and develops meaningful plans of action for policymakers, ...
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Retrospective video debuts at HCII 25th anniversary party
In 1994, a group of Carnegie Mellon University faculty members created an interdisciplinary, collaborative institute (that's us!) to integ...
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Celebrating 25 Years of the HCII
Almost 400 people celebrated the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s 25th anniversary on October 24 and 25, 2019 at Carnegie Mellon Uni...
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ChairJam Puts Spin on Hackathon Concept
Amelia Li is threading wires into bits of hardware scattered on a table. As she alternates between red, yellow, blue and green, the master...
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Inside the Enigma Machine
Researchers had a rare opportunity to peek "under the hood" of the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries' two Enigma machines, opening the ...
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One-Dimensional Objects Morph Into New Dimensions
A line is the shortest distance between two points, but "A-line," a 4D printing system developed at Carnegie Mellon University, takes a ...
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SCS Students Named 2020 Siebel Scholars
Six Carnegie Mellon University students — five of them from the School of Computer Science — have been named 2020 Siebel Scholars, ...
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McLaren Will Promote Educational Technology in Chile on Fulbright
Fulbright Program Sponsors Three-Month Sojourn in Valparaiso Bruce McLaren believes the moment is right to raise the status of educationa...
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GymCam Tracks Exercises That Wearable Monitors Can’t
Algorithm Enables Cameras To Recognize Distinctive Exercise Motions Wearable sensors such as smartwatches have become a popular motivatio...
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Zimmerman, Forlizzi Co-Author Encyclopedia Chapter
The newest chapter of the online Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Edition was written by HCII professors John Zimmerman and...
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HCI Class Project Turned Entrepreneurship Lesson for Dedicated METALS Students
The work began as a group project for an elective HCI course.
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Online Atlas of Aquatic Insects Aids Water-Quality Monitoring
New Tool Helps Even Novices Identify Insects Inhabiting Streams, Lakes and Rivers A new online field guide to aquatic insects in the east...
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Forlizzi To Receive Honorary Doctorate from TU/e
During the forthcoming MomenTUm, Eindhoven University of Technology will take the exceptional step of awarding two honorary doctorates - ...
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HCI Students Present Research During MoM 2019
The Undergraduate Research Symposium, or the "Meeting of the Minds," (MoM) is a university-wide celebration of undergraduate research. ...
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CMU, Yixue Education Inc. Announce AI Research Project in Adaptive K-12 Education
Yixue Education Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University have announced a new multiyear partnership highlighted by a comprehensive artificial i...
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Wu Receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Jason Wu, first year human-computer interaction Ph.D. student, received a 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foun...
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RoboTutor Team Awaits Global Learning XPRIZE Results
Winning Team Gets $10 Million, but Ultimate Goal Is Boosting Literacy for Millions Worldwide Team members of RoboTutor LLC — who have sp...
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OpenSimon Toolkit To Make Every Classroom a Learning Laboratory
Carnegie Mellon’s learning engineering techniques, tools and materials now openly available Carnegie Mellon University has launched OpenS...