Support HCI Team and Stroke Patients by Voting in Chasing Genius Innovation Challenge

the three Wabbit team members stand on South Craig Street for a photo

Uprooting beets on an augmented reality farm could soon help recovering stroke victims improve their motor skills if a team of human-computer interaction students receives enough votes by tomorrow night. The team of three Carnegie Mellon HCI students behind Wabbit, one of only ten finalists remaining in the National Geographic CHASING GENIUS: UNLIMITED INNOVATION idea challenge, is currently in fourth place.

Study Questions Benefits of Social Networks to Disaster Response

Hirokazu Shirado stands in hallway between Gates and NSH buildings

 

Communication Within Groups Not as Helpful as Anticipated

Faced with a common peril, people delay making decisions that might save lives, fail to alert each other to danger and spread misinformation. Those may sound like behaviors associated with the current pandemic, but they actually surfaced in experiments on how social networks function in emergencies.

HCII Responds to the Pandemic

4 images: 3D printed mask, a chart, illustration of student high fiveing teacher & US map counties

 

As stay-at-home orders swept across the country during the Covid-19 pandemic, our researchers answered the call to help others.

When the campus announced it would close, they packed up and relocated the 3D printers. They applied for grants. They adjusted ongoing research projects and they even started new ones -- all from their homes.

New AI Enables Teachers To Rapidly Develop Intelligent Tutoring Systems

screenshot of the multi step process of building the tutoring system

Intelligent tutoring systems have been shown to be effective in helping to teach certain subjects, such as algebra or grammar, but creating these computerized systems is difficult and laborious. Now, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown they can rapidly build them by, in effect, teaching the computer to teach.

FitByte Uses Sensors on Eyeglasses To Automatically Monitor Diet

A person sitting at table eating bite of food. There is a small sensor on the side of their glasses

CMU Researchers Propose Multimodal System To Track Foods, Liquid Intake

Food plays a big role in our health, and for that reason many people trying to improve their diet often track what they eat. A new wearable from researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science helps wearers track their food habits with high fidelity.

New Device Simulates Feel of Walls, Solid Objects in Virtual Reality

student wearing VR headset on face touches the face of a lion statue while wires connect fingers to the Wireality device on her shoulder

Strings Attached to Hand, Fingers Create More Realistic Haptic Feedback

Today's virtual reality systems can create immersive visual experiences, but seldom do they enable users to feel anything — particularly walls, appliances and furniture. A new device developed at Carnegie Mellon University, however, uses multiple strings attached to the hand and fingers to simulate the feel of obstacles and heavy objects.

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