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    OpenSimon Toolkit To Make Every Classroom a Learning Laboratory

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    Carnegie Mellon’s learning engineering techniques, tools and materials now openly available Carnegie Mellon University has launched OpenSimon — a learning engineering community that will ...

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    Researchers Make Transformational AI Seem "Unremarkable"

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    AI Must Be Unobtrusive To Be Accepted as Part of Clinical Decision Making Physicians making life-and-death decisions about organ transplants, cancer treatments or heart surgeries typica...

  • image on left: bunny knit out of blue yarn. image on right: when responsive fibers on belly are poked, bunny responds with hugging motion

    HCII Researchers Make Soft, Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines

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    Carnegie Mellon University researchers have used computationally controlled knitting machines to create plush toys and other knitted objects that are actuated by tendons. It's an approach...

  • Knit 1, Purl 2: Assembly Instructions for a Robot?

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    HCII Researchers Make Soft, Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines ...

  • 2019 CHI Logo - weaving the threads of CHI

    HCII Research at CHI 2019

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    Thousands of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known as CHI) this weekend. The prem...

  • six people from CMU MHCI stand with rep from UPMC Foundation for check presentation at UPMC Children's Hospital

    MHCI Students Raised Over $6,000 for Extra Life in 2018

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    A group of masters students recently traveled to Lawrenceville to present a large check to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation, a symbol of their successful fundraising effort...

  • 4 photos of the winners arranged in a square, clockwise from top left: Kittur, Bigham, Myers and Koedinger

    Four Receive Google Faculty Research Awards in HCI

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    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

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    The research paper “Sensing Posture-Aware Pen+Touch Interaction on Tablets” received an Honorable Mention award at CHI 2019. ...

  • Collage of 3 photos from the SCS awards ceremony. Queenie and Geoff wearing gold crowns, Queenie and group on stage, Diana and Jessica with her award in Jessica's office afterward

    Two HCII Staff Win 2019 SCS Awards

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    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 hosted by Tom Mitchell, interim dean of the School of...

  • Ken Koedinger converses with others in the hallway during the LearnLab summer school poster session

    Two Research Projects To Close 'Opportunity Gap' for Students

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    A pair of separate, but complementary, research projects led by Carnegie Mellon University will use cutting-edge research in motivation, thinking, culturally affirming teaching and human-c...

  • Lining Yao stands in the Morphing Matter Lab holding a white shapeshifting flower

    HCII Faculty Yao and Zimmerman to Speak at SXSW2019

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    Carnegie Mellon University students, faculty and alumni will be among the thousands descending onto Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest (SXSW) March 8-17, 2019....

  • Hong, Zhang, Kraut and Siewiorek stand side by side, smiling

    New Junior Professorships Honor Two Longtime HCII Faculty Members

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    Jason Hong and His Wife, Shelley Zhang, Endow Two Junior Professorships The sale of Wombat Security Technologies to Proofpoint Inc. for $225 million last year presented an opportunity f...