CMU logo
Search
Expand Menu
Close Menu

Kiesler Named University Professor

Sara Kiesler, Hillman Professor Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction, has been named a Carnegie Mellon University Pr...

the view of the back two young boys interacting with a touchscreen tablet sitting on a plastic table

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...

Open Simon initiative image collage

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...

6 doctors and nurses stand around the end of a table looking at charts, graphs and a laptop

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...

collage of 20+ hand gestures recognized and logged by the sensors

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...

image on left: bunny knit out of blue yarn. image on right: when responsive fibers on belly are poked, bunny responds with hugging motion

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...

Five 1D linear forms were morphed into 3D line sculptures once triggered with heat. One curls up to hold a blue flower

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....

2019 CHI Logo - weaving the threads of CHI

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 ...

six people from CMU MHCI stand with rep from UPMC Foundation for check presentation at UPMC Children's Hospital

MHCI Students Raised Over $6,000 for Extra Life in 2018

A group of masters students recently traveled to Lawrenceville to present a large check to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundatio...

4 photos of the winners arranged in a square, clockwise from top left: Kittur, Bigham, Myers and Koedinger

Four Receive Google Faculty Research Awards in HCI

Four faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2018 Google Faculty Research Awards.