Putting the “human” in human computer interaction with Haiyan Zhang
Episode 62, February 6, 2019 - Haiyan talks about her unique “brain hack” approach to the human-centered design process, and discusses a wide range of projects, from the connected play experience of Zanzibar, to Fizzyo, which turns laborious breathing exercises…
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Microsoft’s Victor Bahl On The Past And Future Of The Internet
20 years feels like an eternity in the life of the internet. Back then, a Microsoft researcher named Victor Bahl was working on something that most of us take for granted now: the first Wi-Fi hotspot in a public place.
Launching a new round of projects in the Swiss JRC – Research with impact
| Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche
January 31, 2019 marked the start of the sixth workshop for the Swiss Joint Research Center (Swiss JRC), an innovative and successful collaborative research engagement between Microsoft Research and the two universities that make up the Swiss Federal Institutes of…
In the news | Microsoft Research Blog
Launching a new round of projects in the Swiss JRC — Research with impact
January 31, 2019 marked the start of the sixth workshop for the Swiss Joint Research Center (Swiss JRC), an innovative and successful collaborative research engagement between Microsoft Research and the two universities that make up the Swiss Federal Institutes of…
In the news | BBC News
Microsoft: What went right under Satya Nadella?
On Monday, it will be five years since Satya Nadella was announced as Microsoft's chief executive. Since taking charge he has turned the tech firm's fortunes around, making it the most valuable company in the world for the first time…
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Hypezone: How AI is making game streams more exciting
Hypezone, which runs on Microsoft’s streaming site Mixer, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to examine streams coming into the site and pick the most interesting moments to show to people. It means fans of games like Fortnite can use the system…
WSDM conference analytics
In this post, we present historical trend analysis about the conference WSDM-ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, taking place in Melbourne, Australia from February 11- 15, 2019. We derive insights from 2008 to the latest available year.
Guidelines for human-AI interaction design
| Saleema Amershi, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, and Eric Horvitz
The increasing availability and accuracy of AI has stimulated uses of AI technologies in mainstream user-facing applications and services. Along with opportunities for infusing valuable AI services in a wide range of products come challenges and questions about best practices…
Getting efficient with “What-happens-if …”
| Adith Swaminathan and Emre Kiciman
Causal inference studies the relationship between causes and effects. For example, one kind of question that causal inference can answer is the “What-happens-if …” question. What happens if I take a specific medication? What happens if I raise the price…