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As the saying goes, "The user is not like me." And in this case, the user is an astronaut. Then what? How might we desig...
09/04/2026

As the saying goes, "The user is not like me." And in this case, the user is an astronaut. Then what? How might we design those interfaces? 👩‍🚀🚀

A team of Carnegie Mellon students was one of 10 invited to compete in the NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students (SUITS) Challenge at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The NASA SUITS Challenge encourages student teams to develop user interface solutions for future spaceflight needs.

This year's CMU team, Team Resnik, aimed to reduce an astronaut's cognitive load while operating the rover.

Learn more about the team's experience in this story from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. Team Resnik was advised by HCII Associate Professor Nikolas Martelaro.

🔗 Navigating the Moon: https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/navigating-moon

Join us Friday for our first HCII Seminar Series of the semester as we welcome Lorrie Cranor, Director and Bosch Disting...
09/02/2026

Join us Friday for our first HCII Seminar Series of the semester as we welcome Lorrie Cranor, Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies at CyLab.

🎙️ Talk: "Making Security and Privacy More Usable: CHI 2026 Lifetime Research Award Talk"
"For the past three decades, I have worked at the intersection of security, privacy, and usability, exploring how to make systems that better meet the needs of the people who use them. In this talk, I’ll take a whirlwind tour through my research on usable access control, privacy decision making, phishing and scams, security warnings, passwords and authentication, privacy notices and choices, and the art of privacy. Along the way, I’ll talk about my personal winding path, highlight lessons learned, unexpected pivots, and contributions of some of the many students and collaborators who helped shape this work. I’ll also reflect on my efforts to influence products, standards, and public policy."

📆 Date: Friday, September 4, 2026
🕑 Time: 2:00 pm
📍 Location: NSH 3305 + livestream
🔗 Details: https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/event/2026/09/hcii-seminar-series-lorrie-cranor

We hope you'll make the HCII Seminar Series a regular part of your Friday afternoons this semester. Check the HCII website for week-to-week details. See you there!

Seeing our participants—educators, students, researchers—tackle big learning challenges was nothing short of inspiring! ...
08/27/2026

Seeing our participants—educators, students, researchers—tackle big learning challenges was nothing short of inspiring! We thank everyone who made the 26th annual LearnLab Summer School so special.

What is the LearnLab Summer School? This 5-day event features lectures, discussions, and hands-on laboratory sessions, where participants create technology-enhanced learning experiments and intelligent tutoring systems.

Paired with our expert mentors and state-of-the-art tools (including the Open Learning Initiative OLI development environment, Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools, and DataShop), attendees present their projects to the rest of the community on Friday, the final day of the summer school.

Huge thanks to our faculty, staff, and amazing mentors for their support of this long-standing CMU program. And a special shout out to the 2026 cohort for finishing the week with new skills, connections, and innovative projects that will shape how we teach and learn.

Until next year, learners!

08/25/2026

Congratulations to Zida, Amanda, John, Mara, Katherine and Jose, the creative MHCI and MSLE students behind the winning 2026-27 HCII t-shirt design! 🏆👕

12 teams of students counted off and spent the morning sketching their ideas. Then, each team had 30 seconds to pitch before the votes were cast.

Thanks to all who joined us for this long-standing HCII Orientation tradition. Welcome students! Let's make it a great year.

From smart tutoring systems to AI in the classroom, dozens of HCII researchers debuted work at the Festival of Learning ...
08/06/2026

From smart tutoring systems to AI in the classroom, dozens of HCII researchers debuted work at the Festival of Learning last month, highlighting new ways technology can help every student learn better.

The 2026 Festival of Learning featured three unique conferences — Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Learning at Scale (L@S), and Educational Data Mining (EDM) — and one shared focus on the future of learning.

A few highlights from the HCII community include:
- Professor Vincent Aleven delivered a keynote at AIED
- University Professor Ken Koedinger received an AIED Lifetime Achievement Award
- and one paper received an honorable mention award at EDM “Improving Hybrid Human-AI Tutoring by Differentiating Human Tutor Roles Based on Student Needs”
- plus demos, workshops, and more!

Visit the story to learn more about our highlights at the 2026 Festival of Learning
🔗 https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/cmu-festival-learning-2026

From smart tutoring systems to AI in the classroom, dozens of HCII researchers debuted new work at the Festival of Learn...
08/06/2026

From smart tutoring systems to AI in the classroom, dozens of HCII researchers debuted new work at the Festival of Learning last month, highlighting new ways technology can help every student learn better.

The 2026 Festival of Learning featured three unique conferences — Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Learning at Scale (L@S), and Educational Data Mining (EDM) — and one shared focus on the future of learning.

A few highlights from the HCII community include:

- Vincent Aleven delivered a keynote at AIED

- Ken Koedinger received an AIED Lifetime Achievement Award

- one paper “Improving Hybrid Human-AI Tutoring by Differentiating Human Tutor Roles Based on Student Needs,” received an honorable mention award at EDM

- plus student demos, workshops, and more!

Go learn more about our colleagues' work at the Festival of Learning at the News link in our bio.

Hats off to the MHCI Class of 2026! 🎓✨ The 1-year Master of Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University is ...
07/31/2026

Hats off to the MHCI Class of 2026! 🎓✨
The 1-year Master of Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University is both a marathon and a sprint. Students, thank you for showing up every day and bringing so much energy, curiosity and empathy to our community this year.

Wicked Problems lie ahead, but we know you are ready to tackle them.
Just Thinking Aloud here, the future of HCI looks bright thanks to you all.
Oh - Yes, and - we are so proud of you! Congratulations and keep in touch, !

📸: MHCI students, faculty and staff at the farewell party yesterday

Today we are kicking off the 2026 LearnLab Summer School! We are so excited to spend the week with 100+ friends while bu...
07/27/2026

Today we are kicking off the 2026 LearnLab Summer School! We are so excited to spend the week with 100+ friends while building learning solutions with real-world impact.

Our LearnLab tracks this year include:

🧠🤖 Intelligent Tutoring Systems

🔎📈 Educational Data Mining

🛠️💻 Building online courses with OLI

💻📑 Computer Science Education Research and

📊📚 Data Science for Education.

We look forward to building and learning with you all this week.

07/17/2026

From 😡 to 😍, explore the intensity of emoji with psychology researcher Steve Rathje.

Rathje is an incoming assistant professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, with a joint appointment (by courtesy) in Social and Decision Sciences ().

Happy , friends! 🤠

Drop your go-to emoji in the comments below.

From advancements in machine knitting to AI design sprints, HCII and CMU authors contributed to several research papers ...
07/16/2026

From advancements in machine knitting to AI design sprints, HCII and CMU authors contributed to several research papers accepted to DIS 2026. Congratulations, authors!

The ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) is an interdisciplinary conference where research can focus on design theory, methods and technologies, as well as cultural, economic and political impacts.

🏆 Best Paper Award
Knit Joinery: Incorporating Multifunctional Materials with Single-bed Machine Knitting
Yi-Chin Lee, Vernelle A. A. Noel, Scott E Hudson, James McCann, Lea Albaugh

🏅Honorable Mention Award
Designing Worker-Led Documentation Practices: How Unionized Cleaners Articulate Harm Beyond Reporting
Franchesca Spektor, Shivani Kapania, Minjung Park, Olivia Terry, Jodi Forlizzi, Sarah E Fox

Scroll through to see the first pages of several of our papers at DIS.

🔗 Details: https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/cmu-dis-2026

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