Cecily Morrison
Principal Researcher
About
I am a researcher in the Human Experience & Design (HXD) community at Microsoft Research Cambridge interested in developing novel technologies to enable people’s health and well-being in the broadest sense. Put simply, I want to build technologies that matter to people.
My research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence. Working in a cross-disciplinary collaboration, my current focus is on AI applications for those with visual disabilities. I am exploring the interaction paradigms between people and agents that can be brought to bear to extend human capability through subtle dialogues with agents that see. Ongoing projects include:
Torino: a physical programming language inclusive of children with visual disabilities Assess MS: a system to support the tracking of disease progression in patients with Multiple Sclerosis
I hold a PhD in Computer Science from University of Cambridge and an undergraduate degree in Ethnomusicology from…
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Empowering people with AI with Dr. Cecily Morrison
Episode 60, January 23, 2019 - Dr. Morrison gives us an overview of what she calls the “pillars” of inclusive design, shares how her research is positively impacting people with health issues and disabilities, and tells us how having a child born with blindness put her in touch with a community of people she would otherwise never have met, and on the path to developing Project Torino, an inclusive physical programming language for children with visual impairments.