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    CMU at CSCW 2025

    Carnegie Mellon University authors contributed to 27 papers accepted to the 2025 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and...

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    CMU at ASSETS 2025

    The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS) is an interdisciplinary research...

  • four of the authors of the Voyager paper receive the 5 Year InfoVis Award

    Voyager Paper Earns InfoVis Test of Time Award

    A foundational research paper that changed how people explore data has been recognized for its long-term impact, a decade after its public...

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    HCII Seeks Applicants for 2026 Summer Research Program

    The Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) Summer Undergraduate Research program is an opportunity for students to spend a summer wit...

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    National Tutoring Observatory

    The mission of the National Tutoring Observatory is to capture and study great teachers and tutors in one-on-one and small-group settings to uncover the “secret sauce” of effective teaching. By partne ...

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    PolicyCraft

    Community and organizational policies are typically designed in a top-down, centralized fashion, with limited input from impacted stakeholders. This can r Community and organizational policies are typically designed in a top-down, centralized fashion, with limited input from impacted stakeholders. This can result in policies that are misaligned with com ...

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    Inkspire

    With recent advancements in the capabilities of Text-to-Image (T2I) AI models, product designers With recent advancements in the capabilities of Text-to-Image (T2I) AI models, product designers have begun experimenting with them in their work. However, T2I models struggle to interpret abstract la ...

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    VideoMap

    Video editing is a creative and complex endeavor and we believe that there is potential for reim Video editing is a creative and complex endeavor and we believe that there is potential for reimagining a new video editing interface to better support the creative and exploratory nature of video edi ...