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To ease the friction caused by reduced in-person interaction, a team of HCII researchers created a Slack application called Nooks that helps initiate casual conversations and create affinity groups in an online workspace.

Reviving Office Chatter

About one-third of our lives are spent at work, and the relationships we build there can have personal and professional benefits. But a ma...

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Zeno combines a Python API with an interactive user interface, which empowers users to explore, visualize and analyze data and ML model performance across custom use cases.

CMU Researchers Release Zeno for Machine Learning Model Evaluation

A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers has released a new interactive platform for data management and machine learning (ML) eva...

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CMU at CHI 2023

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems will take place from April 23-28, 2023, in Hamburg, Germany. Commonly known a...

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Funding from Amazon SURE will support three SCS summer research initiatives on campus, including Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Software Engineering (REUSE). The REUSE 2022 cohort is shown above.

CMU, Amazon Expand STEM Summer Research Programs for Underrepresented Students

Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and Amazon are working together to expand the university's summer research program...

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a rabbit and a turtle are the icons often referenced when representing fast versus slow; here a real rabbit and real turtle are facing each other

The Myth of the Fast Learner

Learning science experts from Carnegie Mellon University's Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) wanted to know why some students le...

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SCS faculty members Andrej Risteski, Wenting Zheng, Jun-Yan Zhu, Matthew O'Toole (top), Sauvik Das, Zhihao Jia, Dimitrios Skarlatos and Hirokazu Shirado (bottom) have received NSF CAREER Awards totaling more than $4.5 million.

SCS Faculty Receive More Than $4.5M in NSF CAREER Awards

Eight Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the School of Computer Science recently earned Faculty Early Career Development Program (C...

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have created soft robots that can seamlessly shift from walking to swimming.

Researchers Develop Soft Robot That Shifts From Land to Sea With Ease

Most animals can quickly transition from walking to jumping to crawling to swimming if needed without reconfiguring or making major adjust...

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HCII faculty member Chris Harrison earned the UIST Lasting Impact Award for his 2011 work on OmniTouch, a wearable system that turns everyday surfaces into an interactive screen.

Harrison Earns Lasting Impact Award for Turning Everyday Surfaces Into Touch Screens

Good technology takes time to get right. When widespread use of touch screens skyrocketed around 2007, for example, the research had been ...

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SCS will take part in the CMU Rales Fellows Program, a transformative initiative announced by CMU and the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation to increase access to STEM graduate education and help cultivate a new generation of domestic national STEM leaders.

SCS Part of Groundbreaking Initiative To Broaden Access to STEM Education by CMU, Rales Foundation

$150 Million Investment Aims To Eliminate Cost as Barrier to Graduate Education, Create Distinctive Ecosystem To Ensure SuccessThe School ...

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Researchers in CMU's Human-Computer Interaction Institute engineered a biodegradable seed carrier, fashioned from wood veneer, that could enable aerial seeding of difficult-to-access areas.

Engineered Magic: Wooden Seed Carriers Mimic the Behavior of Self-Burying Seeds

How seeds implant themselves in soil can seem magical. Take some varieties of Erodium, whose five-petalled flowers of purple, pink or whit...

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