Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
Project
Project Eclipse
With Project Eclipse, the Urban Innovation Initiative presents a full stack -from sensors to analytics- air quality sensing platform for cities. The goal is a radical increase (10x – 100x) in the geographic granularity of…
Group
Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment (VIBE)
The Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment (VIBE) group conducts research in the areas of: artificial emotion intelligence (AEI), information visualization in machine learning and big data; and human-computer interaction (HCI) in software engineering.
Group
Technology and Empowerment | India
Technology and Empowerment (TEM) is a research umbrella at Microsoft Research India. We build and study socio-technical systems that seek to have a meaningful impact on the daily lives of underserved people and communities.
Video
Virtual reality without vision: A haptic and auditory white cane to navigate complex virtual worlds
Video Figure accompanying CHI 2020 paper, demonstrating a novel haptic device that allows a white cane user to interact with a large, complex virtual environment. Full paper is available at https://aka.ms/VRWhiteCane Current Virtual Reality (VR)…
Group
Enable Group
We create technology innovations that improve the lives of people with disabilities. As part of this effort, we embrace the concept of universal design, where we aim to bring new experiences to all users with…
Publication
The BBC micro:bit: from the U.K. to the world
Event
Swiss Joint Research Center Workshop 2020
The 7th annual workshop of the Swiss Joint Research Center, a collaborative engagement between Microsoft Research and ETH Zurich and EPFL, took place January 29-30, 2020 at EPFL in Lausanne. Each of the twelve project teams…