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MHCI Capstone Projects

  • Group photo of the students at the Clemente Museum
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    Team Clemente Museum

    This team aimed to create a digital experience to share Roberto Clemente's legacy and emphasize the man behind the baseball uniform, his struggles against...

  • black and white Polaroid photo of the 5 students on this team at a restaurant
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    Team PNNL

    This team partnered with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to explore one of the most complex and pervasive issues of our time—misinformati...

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    Team Pandemic Professors

    In conjunction with the non-profit organization Pandemic Professors, this capstone team built a suite of tools designed to center the student experience t...

  • Virtual team photo of 5 students on Zoom
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    Team Optum Health

    This team imagined a brighter future of digital healthcare in the wake of COVID-19 with an emphasis on adaptable solutions, personal control, and friction...

  • Team photo of 5 students behind a table in the MHCI Lab
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    Team InterDigital

    This team speculated 3 to 5 years into the future to design a better digital television experience, keeping a particular focus on utilizing synthetic cont...

  • the 5 students on team 99P labs take a selfie outdoors
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    Team 99P Labs

    We worked with 99P Labs, a digital proving ground that helps further develop mobility and energy concepts through customer empathy, data science, and busi...

  • virtual group photo of the 5 students on Team ApplyGrad; each student in their Zoom window
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    Team ApplyGrad

    Team Super Cool Scholars investigated how to improve the graduate application process to help address the growing workload for admissions reviewers, as we...

  • 5 students of team CarMax stand by a giant Neptune statue at the beach
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    Team CarMax

    Team Hi, Mileage takes us on a journey to reimagine end-to-end car buying experiences. They created an autonomous voice agent to provide relevant and valu...

  • 5 teammates stand side by side in front of the MHCI green wall
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    The Pittsburgh Foundation

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

  • the 5 teammates stand side by side, photo has a grey overlay
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    Numo

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

  • line drawing of the 5 team members in a frame
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    Discover

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

  • 5 team members stand in front of the MHCI green wall
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    Highmark

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

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    Zazzle

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

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    Pittsburgh International Airport

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

  • 5 MHCI students and their Oasis project sponsors during their kickoff meeting
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    Oasis Recovery Center

    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...

  • 4 members from Nationwide team gather in front of wall of post its while discussing research
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    Nationwide

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

  • 5 students on the NASA team visited Houston and stand in front of space craft
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    NASA

    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...

  • Gov AI + MHCI team members stand side by side in front of a white board with many insights
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    Gov AI

    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...

  • the 5 team members stand side by side, some with arms around each other
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    Bloomberg

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

  • Polaroid photo of the 5 students on this team
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    Amazon Music

    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...