News & Events
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View our recent news stories below. Looking for an upcoming event? Visit our website calendar to view our public events, including our weekly Seminar Series on Friday afternoons.
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Live-Streamed Game Collects Sounds To Help Train Home-Based Artificial Intelligence
From yawning to closing the fridge door, a lot of sounds occur within the home. Such sounds could be useful for home-based artificial in...
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Video Game Teaches Productive Civil Discourse and Overcoming Tribalism
How can students learn to make their civil discourse more productive? One Carnegie Mellon University researcher proposes an AI-po...
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Hong Receives 2019 Amazon Research Award
Professor Jason Hong was awarded a 2019 Amazon Research Award in support of the project "Designing Alternative Representations of ...
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Fifty Years Into "Picturephones," CMU Revamps Original Machine With Modern Twist
"Some people in Pittsburgh are seeing voices."
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Zazzle Uses MHCI Capstone Ideas To Create New Products
Wuyang Wang knew she got lucky last year.
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Perception of Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Contact-Tracing Apps Key to Widespread Adoption
CMU Researchers Find Users Prefer Centralized System Contact-tracing could help curb the spread of COVID-19. While the process can be pe...
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HCII Responds to the Pandemic
As stay-at-home orders swept across the country during the Covid-19 pandemic, our researchers answered the call to help others. When the ...
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Study Questions Benefits of Social Networks to Disaster Response
Communication Within Groups Not as Helpful as Anticipated Faced with a common peril, people delay making decisions that might s...
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Self-Healing Devices Gain or Regain Function After Being Cut
A "smart" polymer cast that automatically seals itself around a broken arm, a membrane that can sense where it has been cut, and pneumati...
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Carnegie Mellon Launches New Undergraduate Degree in Human-Computer Interaction
HCI Major Addresses Growing Demand for Expertise in Technology and Design
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New AI Enables Teachers To Rapidly Develop Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Intelligent tutoring systems have been shown to be effective in helping to teach certain subjects, such as algebra or grammar, but creati...
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FitByte Uses Sensors on Eyeglasses To Automatically Monitor Diet
CMU Researchers Propose Multimodal System To Track Foods, Liquid Intake Food plays a big role in our health, and for that reason many pe...
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New Device Simulates Feel of Walls, Solid Objects in Virtual Reality
Strings Attached to Hand, Fingers Create More Realistic Haptic Feedback Today's virtual reality systems can create immersive visual expe...
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HCII Research Accepted to CHI 2020
The international ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known as CHI) was scheduled to take place this we...
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Jason Hong Named to CHI Academy
Professor Jason Hong has been named to the 2020 CHI Academy, an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributi...
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Virtual Talks from CHI 2020
The 2020 international ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) was scheduled to take place this week (April...
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Carnegie Mellon Unveils Five Interactive COVID-19 Maps
Carnegie Mellon University today unveiled five interactive maps displaying real-time information on symptoms, doctor visits, medical tes...
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Hammer Earns NSF CAREER Award
Jessica Hammer, the Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science in the School of Computer Science's Human-Computer Inte...
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The Future of AI is Female
Showcasing CMU's women in AI research across the career continuum Carnegie Mellon University has shaped artificial intelligence (AI) fr...