Augmented Reality (AR)

EduSense: Like a Fitbit for Your Teaching Skills

graphic with multicolored stick figures on a black background, representative of an actual classroom of students at their desks

While training and feedback opportunities abound for K-12 educators, the same can't be said for instructors in higher education. Currently, the most effective mechanism for professional development is for an expert to observe a lecture and provide personalized feedback. But a new system developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers offers a comprehensive real-time sensing system that is inexpensive and scalable to create a continuous feedback loop for the instructor.

HCI students win Bose Challenge, Designing for Augmented Reality with Sound

the four team members sit around a square table in the HCII lobby

More than 100 Carnegie Mellon University students participated in an on-campus challenge last month, designing solutions for an emerging field so new that the technology, a pair of Bose augmented reality (AR) glasses, wasn’t even available to the participants.

The upcoming Bose AR technology will enable developers to superimpose sound on top of the real world based on location or head gestures, creating opportunities for novel experiences with learning, music, travel, and more.

HCII PhD Students Return from London Festival of Learning with 3 Awards

PhD students Madaio and Holstein with their awards at London Festival of Learning

Many experts from the learning sciences and educational technologies communities gathered at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Education in London last week for not one but three conferences during the London Festival of Learning.