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EcoAssist Shows Devs Greener Ways to Code
The environmental impact of the internet continues to climb. Every line of code written for a website leads to power consumption and energ...
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Rethinking PDF Accessibility From the Ground Up
Researchers in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science have developed a system that automatically improves PDF accessibi...
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The AI Is in the Room
In this ghost story, there is no haunted mansion. No candles mysteriously snuffed out. No strange things going bump in the night or glimps...
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CMU at CHI 2026
This year, authors from CMU contributed to 76 papers accepted to CHI, including 12 award-winning papers. “The interdisciplinary CHI confer...
Latest Projects
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National Tutoring Observatory
The mission of the National Tutoring Observatory is to capture and study great teachers and tutors in one-on-one and small-group settings to uncover the “secret sauce” of effective teaching. By partne ...
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PolicyCraft
Community and organizational policies are typically designed in a top-down, centralized fashion, with limited input from impacted stakeholders. This can r Community and organizational policies are typically designed in a top-down, centralized fashion, with limited input from impacted stakeholders. This can result in policies that are misaligned with com ...
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Inkspire
With recent advancements in the capabilities of Text-to-Image (T2I) AI models, product designers have begun exp With recent advancements in the capabilities of Text-to-Image (T2I) AI models, product designers have begun experimenting with them in their work. However, T2I models struggle to interpret abstract la ...
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VideoMap
Video editing is a creative and complex endeavor and we believe that there is potential for reimagining a new v Video editing is a creative and complex endeavor and we believe that there is potential for reimagining a new video editing interface to better support the creative and exploratory nature of video edi ...
