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Live-Streamed Game Collects Sounds To Help Train Home-Based Artificial Intelligence

From yawning to closing the fridge door, a lot of sounds occur within the home. Such sounds could be useful for home-based artificial in...

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More than Human-Centred Design: CMU at DIS 2020

Like many other conferences this year, the 2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held virtually in July. The them...

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Video Game Teaches Productive Civil Discourse and Overcoming Tribalism

  How can students learn to make their civil discourse more productive? One Carnegie Mellon University researcher proposes an AI-po...

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Hong Receives 2019 Amazon Research Award

  Professor Jason Hong was awarded a 2019 Amazon Research Award in support of the project "Designing Alternative Representations of ...

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Shedding Light (and Sound) on Hidden IoT Devices in Your Next Hotel Room

 

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Fifty Years Into "Picturephones," CMU Revamps Original Machine With Modern Twist

  "Some people in Pittsburgh are seeing voices."

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Zazzle Uses MHCI Capstone Ideas To Create New Products

Wuyang Wang knew she got lucky last year.

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Perception of Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Contact-Tracing Apps Key to Widespread Adoption

CMU Researchers Find Users Prefer Centralized System Contact-tracing could help curb the spread of COVID-19. While the process can be pe...

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Study Questions Benefits of Social Networks to Disaster Response

  Communication Within Groups Not as Helpful as Anticipated Faced with a common peril, people delay making decisions that might s...

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HCII Responds to the Pandemic

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