MHCI Capstone

How can we make people feel comfortable with robots in their homes?...

This team worked with one of the nation’s oldest community foundations, The Pittsburgh Foundation, to envision and design the future of responsible philan...

This team worked with the Pittsburgh fintech lab Numo to explore opportunities with the card linked offer (CLO) programs provided by some debit cards....

The student loan experience can be a confusing one to navigate. This MHCI team is exploring how they might better understand students' decisionmaking duri...

The A-Team explored how they might improve members’ financial health literacy and understanding of the health insurance system....

This team continues our multi-year project with Zazzle to explore the broad space of creativity....

This team investigated how to improve the airport waiting experience by exploring how additional transparency, control, and efficiency in the security lin...

Partnering with the Oasis Recovery Center and the startup Biomotivate, this MHCI team designed a solution to empower people in their recovery journey by m...

Differing expectations about aging in place can create tensions between aging adults and their adult children. This team designed a solution to facilitate...

This team worked with UX designers at NASA Ames Research Center to investigate how to situate diagnostic tools in a workflow to support crew members in th...

Team Gov AI researched how technologies, such as conversational design, can bridge the gap with government policy to improve the process of applying for g...

By combining user needs with innovative design, this capstone team is working on reducing the complexity of Bloomberg's machine learning workflow manageme...

What might the future of listening to music look like? How might we utilize new devices and emerging technologies to create products and services which el...

How could the capstone sponsor, Liquidnet, better understand the state of their users? After conducting research about the Liquidnet 5 product and its use...

Demand for the Pittsburgh-based program Talk: The New Sex Ed has outpaced the organization's ability to provide it, so this capstone team was tasked with ...

How could the client improve the online banking experience for their commercial banking customers? The team applied a variety of human-centered design met...

The team created an interactive Trip Planner to save guests time and simplify their booking experience at the five star Nemacolin Woodlands Resort. Using ...

How can we help users unleash their creativity? Team Zazzle explored new and innovative ways to connect different members of the Zazzle community -- both ...

How do we help systems engineers know when they're "done" with a stage of designing a rocket and, more specifically, understand the complex information r...

How might we envision a preferred future for conversational patient & caregiver engagement that addresses the medical, behavioral, and emotional dimen...

The challenge: find a target user group that has a need to make sense of vast and ambiguous information online, and design a tool based on Fuse's technolo...

Team Crypta was asked to design and develop a CMU Coin experience that utilizes up-to-date blockchain technology by discovering new markets and presenting...

Boulder Crest is a nonprofit organization that offers retreats for veterans, active duty service members, first responders, and their families. This MHCI ...

How might we help teenagers find a style that makes them feel confident in their social identity? Welcome to the Find My Style experience, a service that ...

The Zenors platform leverages the power of crowd computing, computer vision, and machine learning for collecting and analyzing visual data. Tasked with id...

Continuous authentication benefits cardholders with the potential for quicker checkouts and more layers of protection against identity theft and fraud. Ho...

How can job candidates disclose a disability and request accommodation without it affecting their candidacy for a position? The team's research uncovered ...

The Zazzle team's research uncovered that millennials experience several lows during the creative process, including feelings of inadequacy or nervousness...

Haven, the mobile application created by the team, was designed to help community members prepare for and deal with disasters. It includes preparation too...

FutureFinder is a mobile app that helps students to explore their own interests and potential careers broadly, in quick and motivating sessions of about 1...