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RoboTutor Advances to Global Learning XPRIZE Semifinals
RoboTutor, educational technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University that teaches children basic math and reading skills, has been na...
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Jason Hong Explains How AI Will Invoke New Hack Attacks
Jason Hong, associate professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, recently shared his thoughts with SD Times about the rising i...
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Skip the Password, Use "Secret Knock" Instead
Article originally posted on www.cs.cmu.edu In the days of Prohibition, thirsty men and women used a secret knock to enter speakeasies. O...
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McLaren Receives NSF Grant to Data Mine Learning from Erroneous Examples
Erroneous examples, step-by-step examples of incorrect problem solving, is a pedagogical approach used in only a few fields, such as medic...
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Jeffrey Bigham Future Leader of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University is a place where the future is imagined and re-designed constantly. Roads with self-driving cars, rooms powered...
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Jennifer Mankoff Discusses 3D Printing With Forbes
3D printing has been quietly moving towards a radical revolution over the past several years. While it has already exceeded 5.1 billion, i...
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Nesra Yannier Talks Earthshake to 90.5 WESA
What does a gorilla, toppling towers and a postdoctoral fellow from Carnegie Mellon University have in common? They are all part of the mi...
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Carnegie Mellon Offers New Master's Degree in Product Management
Originally posted on www.cs.cmu.edu by Byron Spice 05/16/2017.
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3D Printing Project, Façade, presented this week at CHI
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CHI Preview: Researchers From HCII Believe Difficulty Can Be Overrated in Games.
Like the fickle Goldilocks, game players are said to seek a game experience that is not too hard and not too easy, but just challenging en...
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Synthetic Sensors Project Presented at CHI 2017
HCII Professor Chris Harrison and PhD students Gierad Laput and Yang Zhang have unveiled Synthetic Sensors, a sensing abstraction project ...
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CHI Preview: Variolite: Supporting Exploratory Programming by Data Scientists
When you are given a task with a number of possible approaches and no clear requirements, how do you get started? When faced with building...
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HCII @ CHI 2017
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute heads to Denver, Colo. for the 2017 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). T...
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MHCI Students Finalists in ACM SIGCHI 2017 Design Competition
In any given day, how many actions or activities do you complete without pausing to think? Whether it's remembering each step to make a cu...
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HCII Alumnus Jacob Wobbrock to Receive the SIGCHI Social Impact Award at CHI 2017
"Too often, people with disabilities have to adapt themselves to the ‘ability assumptions’ of their computing systems, but I wanted to rev...
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Game Puts You in Berlin During 1943 Women’s Protest of Nazi Germany
It is Feb. 27, 1943, in Berlin. Anneliese Edelman returns home with some fish, a rare treat for dinner. Her husband, Max, should be back ...
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Hong Shares 3 Ways to Check Data Privacy on MSN Money
There's no such thing as a free lunch or a free service that bundles subscriptions, as was recently reaffirmed by Unroll.Me's media covera...
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F17 Human-Centered Courses for CS Students
HUMAN-CENTERED TECHNOLOGY COURSES Designing Human-Centered Software 05-391 Instructor: Chris Harrison
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Meet MHCI Alumnus Dave Luetger
Dave Luetger is a 2013 graduate from the Master of Human-Computer Interaction (MHCI) at Carnegie Mellon University. While completing his u...
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HCII Collects Best Paper and Accessibility Challenge Awards at W4A
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute had a strong presence at the 14th International Web for All (W4A) conference in Perth, Australia,...