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.
Qian Yang, a 2020 graduate from the HCI Ph.D. program, received a 2021 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award. She is now an assistant professor in information science at Cornell University.
Scott Hudson, a professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), is this year's winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Research presented by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI).
Three Carnegie Mellon University research teams have received funding through the Program on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence, which the National Science Foundation sponsors in partnership with Amazon. The program supports computational research focused on fairness in AI, with the goal of building trustworthy AI systems that can be deployed to tackle grand challenges facing society.
A new game developed by Jessica Hammer and Melissa Kalarchian, two Pittsburgh-based researchers, won first prize in a national competition sponsored by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Season 3, Episode 7 - Why does open source have such a wide gender gap?
Open source software is the infrastructure of the Internet, but it is less diverse than the tech industry overall. In this deep-dive on gender in open source, we speak to CMU’s Laura Dabbish and Anita Williams Woolley about what’s keeping women from participating in open source software development and how increased participation benefits society as a whole.
Researchers Will Develop Prototype Smartphone Interface for Accessible Self-Driving Cars
A team led by the Human-Computer Interaction Institute is one of 10 semifinalists in the U.S. Department of Transportation's Inclusive Design Challenge, which seeks to make self-driving vehicles more accessible to people with disabilities.
Anhong Guo, who recently completed his Ph.D. in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and next month will join the University of Michigan faculty, was named to the 2021 Forbes "30 Under 30" in science for his work on combining human and artificial intelligence to make visual information more accessible.
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