August 10, 2017
"The win represents the strength of the team and CMU's dominance in cyber security."
The Carnegie Mellon University cybersecurity team made history at the annual Defcon convention this year in Las Vegas. The ... Read more
July 19, 2017
Four Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. students are recipients of the Center for Machine Learning and Health (CMLH) Fellowship in Digital Health. Incoming students Prerna Chikersal and ... Read more
July 11, 2017
The first known use of the word, computer, was actually in reference to a job title, not a piece of technology. In spite of the past trend for men to more frequently take on the job of computer scientist, the first recognized computer programmer was a woman named Ada ... Read more
July 10, 2017
"Algorithm models and machine learning systems. Whether we realize it or not, our daily lives center around them," explained a team of Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students in their paper for Jason Hong's ... Read more
June 26, 2017
RoboTutor, educational technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University that teaches children basic math and reading skills, has been named a semifinalist in the $15 million ... Read more
June 26, 2017
Article originally posted on www.cs.cmu.edu
In the days of Prohibition, thirsty men and women used a secret knock to enter speakeasies. Occasionally, a nefarious sort who'd ... Read more
June 19, 2017
Erroneous examples, step-by-step examples of incorrect problem solving, is a pedagogical approach used in only a few fields, such as medical education. Bruce McLaren, an associate research professor in the Human- ... Read more
June 5, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University is a place where the future is imagined and re-designed constantly. Roads with self-driving cars, rooms powered by super sensors, and computing directly on your skin are just a few version of the future conceived of by Carnegie Mellon minds. ... Read more
May 16, 2017
Originally posted on www.cs.cmu.edu by Byron Spice 05/16/2017.
A new master's degree program at Carnegie Mellon University aims to teach computer ... Read more
May 11, 2017
Like the fickle Goldilocks, game players are said to seek a game experience that is not too hard and not too easy, but just challenging enough. Or at least, that has been the general assumption. It is easy to imagine that a game can be too difficult for a user ... Read more
May 10, 2017
HCII Professor Chris Harrison and PhD students Gierad Laput and Yang Zhang have unveiled ... Read more
May 9, 2017
When you are given a task with a number of possible approaches and no clear requirements, how do you get started? When faced with building software to solve an open-ended problem, it’s often impossible to fully design what to build upfront. Programmers often need to ... Read more
April 19, 2017
April 14, 2017
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute had a strong presence at the 14th International Web for All (W4A) conference in Perth, Australia, where researchers accepted both the Best Technical Paper award and won the Accessibility Challenge.
This year, the ... Read more
April 10, 2017
Have you ever used your skin to adjust the volume for your phone? Can you easily navigate your kitchen appliances without your vision? When was the last time you quickly printed up some fabric?
The answer is probably never. Despite the fact that academic research ... Read more
April 5, 2017
Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. student Cole Gleason will be receiving the 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) for his research applying computer science to ... Read more
March 31, 2017
The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is excited to announce additional leadership for the Master of Human-Computer Interaction program. MHCI alumnus ... Read more
March 28, 2017
Human-Computer Interaction Institute Professor Jen Mankoff will present a 20 minute "Andy Talk" on Wednesday at this year's Energy Week, held March 27-31st at ... Read more
March 20, 2017
Two Ph.D. students from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute are finalists in the 2017 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. They are one team out of 33 selected as finalists from a pool of 116 eligible applicants. Carnegie Mellon University's ... Read more
March 8, 2017
Heart patients who have reached end-stage heart failure may have a pump surgically inserted to help blood flow to the rest of the body. This mechanical implant is called a ventricular assist device (VAD), and it can prolong and improve patients' lives. Though physicians ... Read more
