Human-computer interaction researchers at Microsoft envision a future where technology enhances the human experience for everyone, everywhere. Research results are routinely translated to technological innovations that impact Microsoft customers and products and benefit society at large through open science collaborations.
Team members hold degrees across the social sciences from anthropology to psychology in addition to computer science and engineering. The multidisciplinary approach brings insight and understanding to the societal consequences of technology and guides design choices that complement human skills, behaviors, and abilities.
Designing innovative technologies for input to computers that complement human skills, including the motor-sensory and cognitive aspects of interaction, with appropriate feedback.
Analyzing large-scale data from social media to gain insights on societal issues and developing novel algorithms and technologies for social computing.
Studying and supporting groups of people that communicate for work and leisure via technology such as immersive telepresence experiences.
Researching innovative techniques and technologies to explore, present and interact with data for enriched storytelling experiences and analysis that yields useful insights.
Developing technologies that enable non-machine learning experts to build, train and deploy machine learning algorithms and systems.
Researching and developing systems that recognize, interpret, process and respond to human emotions for social good.
Researching the design and development of wearable devices for enhanced personalized technology experiences.
Inventing inclusive technologies that address the challenges and needs of users with a variety of sensory, motor and cognitive abilities.
Pioneering techniques to create life-like virtual experiences and augment reality with feedback such as graphics that help solve everyday problems.
