Human-Centered AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) brings amazing capabilities and challenging risks. Human-centered AI (HAI) works to maximize AI’s benefits and minimize its harms by attending to AI capabilities and their impact on users, service providers, impacted stakeholders, and society at large. This area of research:
- Improves AI innovation processes to reduce project failure and bad outcomes
- Creates new methods for people to interact with computing systems
- Advances AI Literacy
- Informs policy and the regulation of AI systems
- Improves how innovators can team with AI to co-innovate
Machine Learning (ML) is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) that involves training algorithms to learn from and make predictions or decisions based on data. Applied ML in the context of HAI focuses on designing AI systems with human needs, behaviors, and social contexts in mind.
Students who want to learn more about HAI might be interested in the following HCII courses:
- 05-317/05-617: Design of AI Products and Services
- 05-318/05-618: Human-AI Interaction
- 05-380/05-685: Prototyping Algorithmic Experiences (PAX)
- 05-499/05-899: Special Topics: Augmenting Intelligence
- 05-499/05-899: Special Topics: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, & Ethics (FATE) in Sociotechnical Systems
Faculty Researchers
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Stepping Toward Better Mobility
NEWSA CMU team created a mobility aid that combines functionality with wearability to support people with mobility issues, such as those who e...
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HCII at IUI 2026
NEWSResearch at the ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces focuses on the intersection of AI and HCI, and covers both the computational...
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Lindlbauer Receives NSF CAREER Award for Adaptive Extended Reality Interfaces
NEWSDavid Lindlbauer, an assistant professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, has received a Faculty...
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Randi Williams Delivers Play@TED Talk: How to Raise Kids Who Question AI
NEWSAs artificial intelligence (AI) makes its way into toys, cultivating a new era of digital literacy with children is a necessity.
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NoRILLA Wins Global Competition
NEWSResearchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science won an international competition aimed at transforming kindergarten...
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CMU at DIS 2026
NEWSThe Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held June 13-17, 2026, in Singapore. ...
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Looking Ahead: AI Needs UI
NEWSThere is a distinct tension when opening an artificial intelligence (AI) tool and facing that empty text box with its blinking cursor. Wha...
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Don’t Let FOMO Be Your Organization’s AI Strategy
NEWSDriven by the fear of falling behind their competitors, organizations are rushing to throw AI at their problems. But it's not solving ever...
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How Do Boomers Really Feel About AI?
NEWSAs older adults embrace artificial intelligence, they want the technology to be more in tune with their emotional needs, according to a re...
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CMU Tool Prevents Anxiety Spirals When Searching for Medical Advice Online
NEWSReddit isn't a doctor, but that doesn't stop people from turning to it for medical questions. And since people won't change their behavior...
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Design Tweaks That Keep Students Learning
NEWSGetting a question wrong might be the best thing that can happen to a student, if they try again. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Universit...
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Fujitsu, CMU Launch Joint Center for Physical AI
NEWSAt the center, Fujitsu and CMU will jointly advance research and development of core technologies to enhance the capabilities and scalabil...