In the news | World Bank Blogs
Ground control to major policy makers: Unlocking user-centric AI’s potential for development – Part 1
Today, different satellite constellations capture an image of every place on Earth at least once a day. These satellite images can help local actors better understand and make decisions based on what is happening on the ground. Whether for infrastructure…
Something Awesome About UX Research
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Applied Research; Insightful Impact
We take an ‘applied research’ approach. Our scientists collaborate with our engineering and product teams to solve hard technical problems. Coupled with a direct line to data, resources, engineers, and the voice of the customer, GSL retains the…
In the news | SIGMOD Blog
The Diversity of Diversity & Inclusion
The importance of diversity and inclusion has been widely recognized by now and efforts toward this goal are commonplace in almost all settings. Diversity and inclusion, however, remains challenging, and even well-intentioned efforts do not always work.
In the news | SIGCHI
Dumais receives SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
A common theme that runs through her work is the importance of understanding and improving information systems from an interdisciplinary and user-centered perspective. She is a co-inventor of Latent Semantic Analysis, a well-known word embedding technique, which was designed to…
Awards | Association for Women in Mathematics
Jennifer Chayes selected to 2020 class of AWM Fellows
Jennifer Chayes, Technical Fellow and Microsoft Researcher Emeritus, was awarded the Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics 2020 (opens in new tab) for pioneering the way for women in the mathematical sciences to have leading technical roles in the…
Microsoft Research 2019 reflection—a year of progress on technology’s toughest challenges
Research is about achieving long-term goals, often through incremental progress. As the year comes to an end, it’s a good time to step back and reflect on the work that researchers at Microsoft and their collaborators have done to advance…
Directions in user research
Building empathy with customers, the rise of AI, and the value of the user researcher are a few trends that came to the forefront of the discipline in 2019. As the year comes to an end, one user researcher predicts…