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New Technology Makes Internet Memes Accessible for People With Visual Impairments
CMU Researchers Develop System to Identify and Translate Memes People with visual impairments use social media like everyone else, oft...
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Sharing accounts in the workplace is a mess
Last year, a team of CyLab researchers explored the account-sharing behaviors of romantic couples and found that some of their practices c...
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Inviting Clients for 2020 HCI Capstone Projects
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is currently seeking client sponsors for spring semester 2020 projects.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Researchers Make Transformational AI Seem "Unremarkable"
AI Must Be Unobtrusive To Be Accepted as Part of Clinical Decision Making Physicians making life-and-death decisions about organ transp...
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5 Papers from Morphing Matter Lab Accepted to CHI 2019
The Morphing Matter Lab from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is presenting five papers at CHI 2019....
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Show Your Hands: Smartwatches Sense Hand Activity
Devices That Know What Your Hands Are Doing Could Unlock New Apps We've become accustomed to our smartwatches and smartphones sensing wh...
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HCII Researchers Make Soft, Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have used computationally controlled knitting machines to create plush toys and other knitted obje...
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Kiesler Named University Professor
Sara Kiesler, Hillman Professor Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction, has been named a Carnegie Mellon University Pr...
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HCII Research at CHI 2019
Thousands of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing ...
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