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  • Chris Harrison

    Harrison Earns Teaching Innovation Award at Celebration of Education

    Chris Harrison received the university's 2025 Teaching Innovation Award to recognize his transformative work on the course "Designing Huma...

  • CHI 2025 logo of a small illustration of a seaside city, complete with a small ferris wheel

    CMU at CHI 2025

    Our halls are abuzz with talk of “CHI” (pronounced “kai”), the nickname for the upcoming conference on computer human interaction (CHI). ...

  • collage of several classroom images for the XR course

    Up Next in Special Topics

    Our Special Topics courses provide the opportunity to explore the future of HCI, guided by the experts who are shaping the field. These dy...

  • group of 14 SNU and CMU faculty standing in front of a banner that reads Opening Ceremony for the new HCAI center

    CMU Launches Human-Centered AI Research Center with Seoul National University

    Carnegie Mellon University and Seoul National University (SNU) have announced a new collaboration to advance human-centered artificial int...

  • An scene from a virtual reality environment shows a room of animated people in a simulated party environment.

    VR/AR Could Help People Manage Everyday Stressors

    Everyday situations can sometimes feel like big stressors, whether it's delivering an important work presentation, attending a party full ...

  • A dark-haired woman with a ponytail holds a book while she reclines on a purple chair.

    Researchers Create Flat-to-Shape Objects With Computer-Controlled Sewing

    CMU researchers introduced a novel method for fabricating functional flat-to-shape objects using a computer-controlled sewing machine. ...

  • Pink and blue earmuffs placed on a microphone.

    Protecting Audio Privacy at the Source

    Sound is a powerful source of information. By training algorithms to identify distinct sound signatures, sound can reveal what a person is...

  • scuba diver beside the text Echo of the Abyss

    Using Virtual Reality to Connect Players With Ocean Ecosystems

    Fewer people have been to the deepest parts of the ocean than have walked on the surface of the moon. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon Unive...

  • Collaged headshots of Gabriella Howse and Connor Tsui.

    Howse, Tsui Receive 2025 Stehlik Scholarship

    School of Computer Science seniors Gabriella Howse and Connor Tsui both walk the halls of the Gates-Hillman Centers and mentor their fello...

  • A laptop screen displays two windows: one with a math tutoring problem and another with video of a human tutor.

    CMU Researchers Help Launch Project To Improve Education

    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) are part of a nationwide project harnessing data from virtual...

  • Scott Hudson

    Hudson Named 2024 ACM Fellow

    Professor Scott Hudson is one of 55 distinguished computer scientists named to the class of 2024 ACM Fellows by the Association for Comput...

  • A man sits in a wheelchair with his arms out to the side. Insets zoom in on sensors on both wrists, his hat and the back of his chair.

    Virtually Accessible

    When Atieh Taheri first donned a virtual reality headset and started walking around a virtual world, her experience didn't match what she ...

  • A person wearing an orange apron sautees salmon in a skillet.

    Accessing Recipe Information Without Looking

    "Cook until golden brown" is a recipe instruction virtually every home cook encounters. It's simple enough for sighted people to follow bu...

  • A laptop screen displays what looks like medieval forces prepped for battle.

    SCS Research Highlights Kids' Role in AI

    Seated at a laptop and surrounded by other students, a young girl asked an image generator powered by artificial intelligence to create a ...

  • group photo of the summer 2024 researchers standing on a staircase outside

    HCII Seeks Applicants for 2025 Summer Research Program

    Application available until mid-JanuaryThe Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) Summer Undergraduate Research program is an opportu...

  • A man with dark hair wears a virtual reality headset and touches his palm, which is superimposed with icons for popular smartphone apps.

    Future AR/VR Controllers Could Be the Palm of Your Hand

    The new generation of augmented and virtual reality controllers may not just fit in the palm of your hand. They could be the palm of your ...

  • the paper certificate the team received for their HCOMP 2024 Best Paper award

    HCII at HCOMP 2024

    "Responsible Crowd Work for Better Artificial Intelligence (AI)” was the theme of the 12th annual AAAI Conference on Human Computation and...

  • Collaged headshots of the nine people who received Google Academic Research Awards.

    SCS Faculty Receive Google Academic Research Awards

    Nine School of Computer Science faculty members recently received Google Academic Research Awards, which aim to fund and actively collabor...

  • Fall 2024 issue of The Link magazine on a table, the cover is a close up of the American flag

    HCII Highlights in The Link

    The Link magazine from the CMU School of Computer Science is now available in mailboxes of alumni and friends, on newsstands in SCS campus...

  • 2 small flower pots created by 3D printing with spent coffee grounds

    Brewing Sustainability

    It took a lot of coffee to power Mike Rivera’s push toward a doctorate degree in human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon. And it too...