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Siri, It Hurts When You Constantly Misunderstand Me. You too, Alexa

Users of voice assistants such as Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant know the frustration of being misunderstood by a machine. But for people...

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CMU at FAccT 2024

Researchers from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and several other Carnegie Mellon University schools and disciplines cont...

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Kittur is GeekWire Podcast Guest

AI, the brain, and the crowd: Research explores new ways for humans and tech to work togetherTodd Bishop, co-founder of GeekWire, recently...

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New Search Engine Tool Helps Users Make Sense of Unfamiliar Topics

An unstructured search for online information about new topics or products can be daunting.

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People With Autism Turn to ChatGPT for Advice on Workplace Issues

A new Carnegie Mellon University study shows that many people with autism embrace ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence tools for he...

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Robots Could Clear Snow, Assist at Crosswalks, Monitor Sidewalks for Traffic

A new study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers found that when roboticists and people with disabilities collaborate on robot design...

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Wikibench Allows Wikipedians To Improve AI Evaluation Datasets

Every two seconds, someone makes an edit to a Wikipedia page. And while many of those edits help curate and develop the internet's encyclo...

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SCS faculty members Andrea Bajcsy, Motahhare Eslami, Ken Holstein, Aditi Raghunathan, Andrej Risteski and Hong Shen have received 2024 Google Research Scholar Awards.

SCS Faculty Earn Google Research Scholar Awards

Six Carnegie Mellon University researchers in the School of Computer Science received 2024 Google Research Scholar Awards, which support e...

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CMU at CHI 2024

Researchers from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and several other Carnegie Mellon University schools and disciplines cont...

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Myers Publishes Book on Interaction Techniques

A new book from Brad A. Myers, the director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, explores the histor...

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