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OpenSimon Toolkit To Make Every Classroom a Learning Laboratory
NEWSCarnegie Mellon’s learning engineering techniques, tools and materials now openly available Carnegie Mellon University has launched OpenSimon — a learning engineering community that will ...
Researchers Make Transformational AI Seem "Unremarkable"
NEWSAI 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...
HCII Researchers Make Soft, Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines
NEWSCarnegie 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?
NEWSHCII Researchers Make Soft, Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines ...
HCII Research at CHI 2019
NEWSThousands 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...
MHCI Students Raised Over $6,000 for Extra Life in 2018
NEWSA 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...
Four Receive Google Faculty Research Awards in HCI
NEWSFour faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2018 Google Faculty Research Awards....
Tablet Prototype Senses Context to Provide Posture-Aware UI
NEWSThe research paper “Sensing Posture-Aware Pen+Touch Interaction on Tablets” received an Honorable Mention award at CHI 2019. ...
Two HCII Staff Win 2019 SCS Awards
NEWSThe 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...
Two Research Projects To Close 'Opportunity Gap' for Students
NEWSA 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...
HCII Faculty Yao and Zimmerman to Speak at SXSW2019
NEWSCarnegie Mellon University students, faculty and alumni will be among the thousands descending onto Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest (SXSW) March 8-17, 2019....
New Junior Professorships Honor Two Longtime HCII Faculty Members
NEWSJason 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...