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CMU Researchers Develop Tool To Help Determine When To Reuse Content

screenshot of tool that measures context, trustworthiness and thoroughness of content

 

Don't reinvent the wheel, the saying goes. But before using someone else's design, at least make sure it will be round.

The answers to most people's questions or the solutions to most challenges can be found within the seemingly endless content on the internet. The problem, however, lies in determining what content is good to reuse and what content should be tossed aside as refuse.

And often, validating a piece of found content or information takes longer than if someone were to just start from scratch.

GymCam Tracks Exercises That Wearable Monitors Can’t

image of gym weight room featuring GymCam green rectangle overlays that recognize exercise motions

Algorithm Enables Cameras To Recognize Distinctive Exercise Motions

Wearable sensors such as smartwatches have become a popular motivational tool for fitness enthusiasts, but gadgets do not sense all exercises equally. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found that a stationary camera is a better choice for gym exercises.

Online Atlas of Aquatic Insects Aids Water-Quality Monitoring

screenshot of macroinvertebrates.org with close up of dorsal side of a common stonefly

New Tool Helps Even Novices Identify Insects Inhabiting Streams, Lakes and Rivers

A new online field guide to aquatic insects in the eastern United States, macroinvertebrates.org, promises to be an important tool for monitoring water quality, and support learning how to correctly identify the freshwater insects inhabiting rivers, lakes, and streams.

Four Receive Google Faculty Research Awards in HCI

4 photos of the winners arranged in a square, clockwise from top left: Kittur, Bigham, Myers and Koedinger

Four faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2018 Google Faculty Research Awards.

Google seeks to identify and strengthen long-term collaborative relationships with world-class computer science faculty researchers in areas of mutual interest. The goal of these collaborations is to impact how future generations use technology.

LumiWatch

smartwatch on right wrist projecting the interface onto the wearer's forearm

While smartwatches are convenient, there is a limit to their functionality due to their small interfaces. Enter LumiWatch. 

The CMU team collaborated with ASU Tech to reveal the first fully-functional and self-contained projection smartwatch implementation in a research paper presented at CHI 2018. 

Bento Browser Makes It Easier To Search On Mobile Devices

screenshot of the mobile-friendly Bento dashboard with color-coded search categories at the top of the screen

Searches involving multiple websites can quickly get confusing, particularly when performed on a mobile device with a small screen. A new web browser developed at Carnegie Mellon University now brings order to complex searches in a way not possible with conventional tabbed browsing.

Blanket Statements: Covering a Quarter-Century of Wearable Tech

Dan Siewiorek stands beside the t-shirt quilt in his office

Look closer -- the sixteen squares of a quilt found in 3513 Newell-Simon Hall share a quarter-century of technological developments and the birth of the wearable computing industry.

The quilt, which belongs to Dan Siewiorek, Buhl University Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science, is comprised of 12” squares cut from t-shirts from the course, “Rapid Prototyping of Computer Systems.”

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