Today's virtual reality systems can create immersive visual experiences, but seldom do they enable users to feel anything — particularly walls, appliances and furniture. A new device developed at Carnegie Mellon University, however, uses multiple strings attached to the hand and fingers to simulate the feel of obstacles and heavy objects.
The 2020 international ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) was scheduled to take place this week (April 25 to 30, 2020) in Honolulu, Hawaii, but was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Although there is no in-person event or official virtual CHI conference, individual groups were permitted to self-organize virtual events.
The international ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known as CHI) was scheduled to take place this week in Honolulu, Hawaii.
CHI 2020 was expecting its second to largest crowd ever, but the premier international conference on Human-Computer Interaction was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Carnegie Mellon University today unveiled five interactive maps displaying real-time information on symptoms, doctor visits, medical tests and browser searches related to COVID-19 in the United States, including estimated disease activity at the county level.
Professor Jason Hong has been named to the 2020 CHI Academy, an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of human-computer interaction (HCI).
Jessica Hammer, the Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science in the School of Computer Science's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the organization's most prestigious award for young faculty members.
Carnegie Mellon University has shaped artificial intelligence (AI) from the field’s very beginning. Today, researchers from all seven colleges across CMU continue to define AI as the next frontier in human progress and are working to help solve problems in areas from healthcare to education.
With many stuck in their homes as cities around the world try to reduce transmission of COVID-19, people are turning to games as a way to communicate, create a sense of community in the virtual world, and stave off boredom.
They’re also finding ways to transition their favorite face-to-face tabletop games into online formats so that they can continue playing them.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact countless aspects of everyday life, CyLab researchers are monitoring its effects on people’s cybersecurity and privacy.
Jason Hong, a professor in Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, thinks that right now, people need to be even more aware and cautious online.
