News & Events
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HCI Students Present Research During MoM 2019
The Undergraduate Research Symposium, or the "Meeting of the Minds," (MoM) is a university-wide celebration of undergraduate research. ...
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CMU, Yixue Education Inc. Announce AI Research Project in Adaptive K-12 Education
Yixue Education Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University have announced a new multiyear partnership highlighted by a comprehensive artificial i...
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Wu Receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Jason Wu, first year human-computer interaction Ph.D. student, received a 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foun...
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RoboTutor Team Awaits Global Learning XPRIZE Results
Winning Team Gets $10 Million, but Ultimate Goal Is Boosting Literacy for Millions Worldwide Team members of RoboTutor LLC — who have sp...
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OpenSimon Toolkit To Make Every Classroom a Learning Laboratory
Carnegie Mellon’s learning engineering techniques, tools and materials now openly available Carnegie Mellon University has launched OpenS...
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Researchers Make Transformational AI Seem "Unremarkable"
AI Must Be Unobtrusive To Be Accepted as Part of Clinical Decision Making Physicians making life-and-death decisions about organ transp...
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5 Papers from Morphing Matter Lab Accepted to CHI 2019
The Morphing Matter Lab from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is presenting five papers at CHI 2019....
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Show Your Hands: Smartwatches Sense Hand Activity
Devices That Know What Your Hands Are Doing Could Unlock New Apps We've become accustomed to our smartwatches and smartphones sensing wh...
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HCII Researchers Make Soft, Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have used computationally controlled knitting machines to create plush toys and other knitted obje...
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Kiesler Named University Professor
Sara Kiesler, Hillman Professor Emerita of Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction, has been named a Carnegie Mellon University Pr...
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HCII Research at CHI 2019
Thousands of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing ...
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MHCI Students Raised Over $6,000 for Extra Life in 2018
A group of masters students recently traveled to Lawrenceville to present a large check to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundatio...
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Four Receive Google Faculty Research Awards in HCI
Four faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2018 Google Faculty Research Awards.
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Tablet Prototype Senses Context to Provide Posture-Aware UI
The research paper “Sensing Posture-Aware Pen+Touch Interaction on Tablets” received an Honorable Mention award at CHI 2019. Lead a...
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Two HCII Staff Win 2019 SCS Awards
The eighth annual School of Computer Science Founders Day celebration took place on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at 4:00 p.m. The event was hos...
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Two Research Projects To Close 'Opportunity Gap' for Students
A pair of separate, but complementary, research projects led by Carnegie Mellon University will use cutting-edge research in motivation, t...
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Carnegie Mellon to Release Digital Learning Software Tools as Open-Source
In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it ...
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HCII Faculty Yao and Zimmerman to Speak at SXSW2019
Carnegie Mellon University students, faculty and alumni will be among the thousands descending onto Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest ...
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New Junior Professorships Honor Two Longtime HCII Faculty Members
Jason Hong and His Wife, Shelley Zhang, Endow Two Junior Professorships The sale of Wombat Security Technologies to Proofpoint Inc. ...