Founding a new committee while working remotely during a pandemic might not sound like ideal timing, but those challenges have not stopped a passionate group of faculty, staff and students at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
This summer, the HCII established a new committee to address and improve the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in all areas of the department.
A team of Human-Computer Interaction Institute researchers composed of Systems Scientist Nesra Yannier (PI) and Professors Ken Koedinger (Co-PI) and Scott Hudson (Co-PI), has received a $2.3 million, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further develop their intelligent science exhibits and mixed-reality system, NoRILLA.
Abdelkareem Bedri and Anjalie Field, Ph.D. students in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the Language Technologies Institute, respectively, are recipients of 2020 Google Ph.D. Fellowships. They are among 53 recipients this year worldwide.
The fellowship program recognizes outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields. In addition to providing tuition and a stipend, the program matches each fellow with a Google research mentor.
In a typical year, Assistant Professor Lining Yao and some of her students would travel to Linz, Austria, to attend Ars Electronica. But as we all know too well, the year 2020 is anything but typical so far.
Ars Electronica STARTS (Science + Technology + Arts) Journeys asked everyone to stay where they were and invited all artists to submit video tours of their own environments.
Four projects from the HCII's Future Interfaces Group (FIG Lab) were honored by Fast Company's 2020 Innovation by Design Awards.
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.
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.
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.
