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  • CrowdVerify

    Many web sites have surprising and sometimes nefarious clauses in their terms of use and privacy policies. The problem is that no one really reads these k...

  • Context-Aware Scalable Authentication

    In the near future, we believe that all authentication needs can be managed by a single smart device, both for web services and for Internet of Things. Th...

  • Collective Planning

    This project explores how social computing system can enable groups of people to collaborative plan for future events. The goal is to combine preferences ...

  • Collaborative Synthesis

    Synthesis is the practice of integrating, organizing, filtering, and evaluating information as part of a design process. Limitations on time, resources, a...

  • Cognitive Assistants and Modeling Human Routines

    We are developing a set of algorithms and visualization tools to better understand and model human behavior. With these models, we are building a wide var...

  • Chelada

    The goal of Chelada is to let others create a new class of mobile applications supporting proactive information. Based on one's context (such as time, loc...

  • Lumitrack

    Lumitrack

    Movement is one of the fundamental ways we interact with the world around us. We can configure our limbs and bodies into innumerable poses, locomote aroun...

  • Combining Small Groups and Large Scale Collaboration

    This research investigates the way that teams and communities collaborate online, with two aims: to develop new technologies to enhance collaboration and ...

  • VizWiz

    VizWiz answers questions that people who are blind or visually impaired have about the things around them. Users take a photo, ask a question, and receive...

  • Tiramisu

    The Tiramisu project investigates how social media can provide new ways for citizens to take ownership of and responsibility for their public services. In...

  • Pediluma

    Pediluma is a shoe accessory designed to encourage opportunistic physical activity. It features a light that brightens the more the wearer walks and slowl...

  • LearnSphere

    Learning Analytics and Data Sharing

    LearnSphere is a community data infrastructure to support learning improvement online. It integrates educational data and analysis repositories to offer ...

  • Nesra sits by Norilla earthquake table

    Mixed-Reality For Science Learning

    NoRILLA is a patented mixed-reality educational system bridging physical and virtual worlds to improve STEM learning. Research at Carnegie Mellon Universi...

  • Multiplier Effects in Math Education (MEME) Project

    The MEME Project’s goal is to produce better educational outcomes by increasing motivation, learning, and self-regulation....

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    Personalized Learning Squared (PLUS)

    The PLUS project is improving the learning outcomes for marginalized students by "squaring" the power of both human and computer tutoring. Our Personalize...

  • Skeema logo, 3 overlapping dots

    Skeema

    Skeema is a new way to manage your tabs that helps to declutter your browser and your mind. ...

  • color icons representing the design of interactive training interfaces, models, and organizations

    Studying and designing for human-AI collaborative work in real-world contexts

    Across a range of real-world contexts, we are studying how AI is currently being designed and used to augment or transform worker practices. Moving beyond...

  • 3 people participating in a workshop for gig workers and policymakers

    Empowering and Enhancing Workers Through Building A Community-Centered Gig Economy

    The gig economy is characterized by short-term contract work performed by independent workers who are paid in return for the "gigs" they perform. Example ...

  • This figure provides a high-level overview of the child maltreatment screening process at Allegheny County, illustrating when an ADS assists call screeners’ and supervisors’ screening decisions.

    Advancing Fairness in AI with Human-Algorithm Collaborations

    Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly used to assist humans in making high-stakes decisions, such as online information curation, resume s...

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    Incorporating and Balancing Stakeholder Values in Algorithm Design

    This project will create a general method for value-sensitive algorithm design and develop tools and techniques to help incorporate the tacit values of st...