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Researchers Make Transformational AI Seem "Unremarkable"

AI Must Be Unobtrusive To Be Accepted as Part of Clinical Decision Making Physicians making life-and-death decisions about organ transp...

collage of 20+ hand gestures recognized and logged by the sensors

Show Your Hands: Smartwatches Sense Hand Activity

Devices That Know What Your Hands Are Doing Could Unlock New Apps We've become accustomed to our smartwatches and smartphones sensing wh...

image on left: bunny knit out of blue yarn. image on right: when responsive fibers on belly are poked, bunny responds with hugging motion

HCII Researchers Make Soft, Actuated Objects Using Commercial Knitting Machines

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have used computationally controlled knitting machines to create plush toys and other knitted obje...

Five 1D linear forms were morphed into 3D line sculptures once triggered with heat. One curls up to hold a blue flower

5 Papers from Morphing Matter Lab Accepted to CHI 2019

The Morphing Matter Lab from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is presenting five papers at CHI 2019....

2019 CHI Logo - weaving the threads of CHI

HCII Research at CHI 2019

Thousands of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing ...

six people from CMU MHCI stand with rep from UPMC Foundation for check presentation at UPMC Children's Hospital

MHCI Students Raised Over $6,000 for Extra Life in 2018

A group of masters students recently traveled to Lawrenceville to present a large check to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundatio...

4 photos of the winners arranged in a square, clockwise from top left: Kittur, Bigham, Myers and Koedinger

Four Receive Google Faculty Research Awards in HCI

Four faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2018 Google Faculty Research Awards.

collage of 7 pictures of various display options from the posture-aware UI prototype

Tablet Prototype Senses Context to Provide Posture-Aware UI

The research paper “Sensing Posture-Aware Pen+Touch Interaction on Tablets” received an Honorable Mention award at CHI 2019.  Lead a...

Collage of 3 photos from the SCS awards ceremony. Queenie and Geoff wearing gold crowns, Queenie and group on stage, Diana and Jessica with her award in Jessica's office afterward

Two HCII Staff Win 2019 SCS Awards

The eighth annual School of Computer Science Founders Day celebration took place on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at 4:00 p.m. The event was hos...

Ken Koedinger converses with others in the hallway during the LearnLab summer school poster session

Two Research Projects To Close 'Opportunity Gap' for Students

A pair of separate, but complementary, research projects led by Carnegie Mellon University will use cutting-edge research in motivation, t...