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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have created soft robots that can seamlessly shift from walking to swimming.

Researchers Develop Soft Robot That Shifts From Land to Sea With Ease

Most animals can quickly transition from walking to jumping to crawling to swimming if needed without reconfiguring or making major adjust...

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HCII faculty member Chris Harrison earned the UIST Lasting Impact Award for his 2011 work on OmniTouch, a wearable system that turns everyday surfaces into an interactive screen.

Harrison Earns Lasting Impact Award for Turning Everyday Surfaces Into Touch Screens

Good technology takes time to get right. When widespread use of touch screens skyrocketed around 2007, for example, the research had been ...

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SCS will take part in the CMU Rales Fellows Program, a transformative initiative announced by CMU and the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation to increase access to STEM graduate education and help cultivate a new generation of domestic national STEM leaders.

SCS Part of Groundbreaking Initiative To Broaden Access to STEM Education by CMU, Rales Foundation

$150 Million Investment Aims To Eliminate Cost as Barrier to Graduate Education, Create Distinctive Ecosystem To Ensure Success The Schoo...

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Researchers in CMU's Human-Computer Interaction Institute engineered a biodegradable seed carrier, fashioned from wood veneer, that could enable aerial seeding of difficult-to-access areas.

Engineered Magic: Wooden Seed Carriers Mimic the Behavior of Self-Burying Seeds

How seeds implant themselves in soil can seem magical. Take some varieties of Erodium, whose five-petalled flowers of purple, pink or whit...

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HCII Professor Robert Kraut and his co-authors earned the CSCW's most recent Lasting Impact Award for their 1988 paper, "Patterns of Contact and Communication in Scientific Research Collaboration."

Kraut Earns Lasting Impact Award for Paper on Proximity's Role in Collaboration

Zoom, Slack and Google Docs may be ubiquitous in today's workplace, but that wasn't the case 35 years ago. Yet many of the technologies un...

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Brad Myers has been named the new Charles M. Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, where he has been a faculty member since 1987.

Myers Named HCII Director

Martial Hebert, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS), has appointed Brad Myers as the new Charles M. ...

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Hong Named 2022 ACM Fellow

Professor Jason Hong from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science has been recognized a fellow of the Association for Co...

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SCS faculty members are part of a CMU team that received an NSF Future of Work grant to investigate how AI-augmented learning can help accelerate student progress in community college IT courses. (Photo courtesy of CCAC.)

CMU Professors Awarded NSF Future of Work Grant

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has announced that a team of professors from the School of Computer Science (SCS) and the Heinz College o...

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Carnegie Mellon University Launches Center for Transformational Play

Games can entertain. They can bring people together. They can transport players to new worlds, test skills and strategies, and encourage p...

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Bloomwood Stories, an HCII-designed video game that helps members of underresourced or historically marginalized populations feel more confident handling health issues, won the Best Student Award at last month's International Conference on Meaningful Play.

Video Game Focused on Community Health Receives Award at Meaningful Play Conference

One of the most enduring pieces of advice from beloved children's television host Mister Rogers is to look for the helpers. 

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