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...
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 ...
Fifty Years Into "Picturephones," CMU Revamps Original Machine With Modern Twist
"Some people in Pittsburgh are seeing voices."
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...
Study Questions Benefits of Social Networks to Disaster Response
Communication Within Groups Not as Helpful as AnticipatedFaced with a common peril, people delay making decisions that might save li...
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 ...
Self-Healing Devices Gain or Regain Function After Being Cut
A "smart" polymer cast that automatically seals itself around a broken arm, a membrane that can sense where it has been cut, and pneumati...
