FIG Lab Receives 4 Innovation by Design Awards
Four projects from the HCII's Future Interfaces Group (FIG Lab) were honored by Fast Company's 2020 Innovation by Design Awards.
Ahuja and Pareddy are Finalists in Collegiate Inventors Competition
Five SCS Students Named Siebel Scholars
Jin Receives 2020 UbiComp Outstanding Student Award
Haojian Jin, fifth year PhD student, received the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award on Thursday, September 17, 2020, during the virtual UbiComp 2020 awards ceremony.
This UbiComp (ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing) award is given to a graduate student who has made outstanding research and service contributions to the field of ubiquitous computing.
Hammer Receives Global Women in Games Hall of Fame Award
Jessica Hammer, Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science, was named to the Global Women in Games Hall of Fame last week. Hammer holds a joint appointment with the HCII and Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center.
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 intelligence applications, but training that AI requires a robust and diverse set of samples. A video game developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers leverages live streaming to collect sound donations from players that will populate an open-source database.
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 theme for the online event was "More than Human-Centered Design."
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-powered video game. The educational system targeted toward high schoolers adapts to students' specific values and can be used to measure — and in some cases reduce — the impact of bias.
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 Confusion Matrices to Evaluate Public Perceptions of Fairness in Machine Learning."
Hong is the first from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute to receive the Amazon Research Award, which is now in its fifth year.
Shedding Light (and Sound) on Hidden IoT Devices in Your Next Hotel Room
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