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SweepSense Can Automatically Pause Your Music
For earphone users, pulling your earphones out to address something that's diverted your attention is tedious — it becomes even more tedio...
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Technology Helps Map the World for the Visually Impaired
For the visually impaired, daily tasks like going on a walk, ordering coffee or even navigating a busy college campus to get to class beco...
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Kraut Earns 2016 SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement in Research Award
Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Robert Kraut has been named the recipient of the 2016 SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement...
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Giving a Hand to Those in Need
CMU Research Aims To Revolutionize How Assistive Devices Are Fabricated and Distributed Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer S...
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Dytective Named Semi-Finalist in UAE AI & Robotics Award for Good
A team of HCII researchers has been named semi-finalists for the United Arab Emirates AI and Robotics Award for Good.
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Hong Talks Privacy Day on WESA-FM
How often do you think twice before downloading an app on your smartphone or posting something on the Internet? Chances are, not often. ...
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HCII, Facebook Study Shows Social Media Can Improve Your Mood
Using social media can actually influence how depressed, happy, unsatisfied or fulfilled you are, according to new research from Carnegie ...
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Three HCII Faculty Members Among CMU's Davos Delegation
Carnegie Mellon is one of only 12 universities in the U.S. invited to the 2016 World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzer...
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Snap-To-It Featured in MIT Technology Review
Imagine that you could connect your smartphone to a nearby "smart" appliance just by taking its photo. Such a luxury could be a possibilit...
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"Educational Engagement" Article Features Cast of HCII Researchers
HCII researchers take center stage in the article "Educational Engagement" featured this week on the Carnegie Mellon News website.
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WSJ Thinks HCII Startup Could Help Facebook CEO Meet 2016 Goals
In 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg aims to build an AI software assistant for his home that can recognize his voice, the cries of his c...
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MHCI Student Earns Second Place in MLK Writing Awards
MHCI student Charu Sharma is among 17 Pittsburgh-area high school and college students who will share their poetry and prose at Carnegie M...
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Lectures Best for Learning? Koedinger Says No
Traditional education models generally revolve around lectures, but new findings from HCII Professor Ken Koedinger and a team of Carnegie ...
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Learning Science Grants to Advance Educational Technology Research
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University received two new grants to advance research in the area of i...
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Ogan Will Use NSF Grant To Study Intercultural Communication in the Classroom
International teaching assistants often struggle to find success in their teaching and research careers because of communication breakdown...
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HCII Faculty Part of Team That Wins Four-Year, $2.8 Million NSF Grant
Siewiorek, Klatzky Will Connect People to Wearable Cognitive Assistance Two HCII faculty members are among a group of Carnegie Mellon res...
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FIGLAB Wins Four Awards in One Week
The HCII's Future Interfaces Group (FIGLAB), led by Assistant Professor Chris Harrison, won four awards this past week for its research in...
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HCIIers Part of CMU Team Competing for Global Learning XPRIZE
Can children learn to read, write and do basic arithmetic without a teacher or classroom, relying only on tablet computers, each other and...
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CMU Researchers Earn Honors at ASSETS
Carnegie Mellon celebrated a strong showing last month at ASSETS 2015, where a team of researchers earned the Best Demonstration Award and...
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EM-Sense Mentioned in More Than 80 Media Outlets
A team from the HCII and Disney Research has developed a technology that could enable smartwatches to automatically recognize the objects ...