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Beyond the prototype: Enabling the long tail of hardware devices
Hardware is important, but it’s hard More than ever before, our society depends on an array of interactive devices. We need to provide input to computer systems throughout our day, whether at home, at work,…
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Behind the phone: The importance of human connections in improving mental health helpline technology
Unaddressed mental health conditions are growing worldwide, with millions across the world living with different types of these conditions. The World Health Organization projects that depression may be the biggest contributor to a key indicator of…
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Presentation on “Beyond the Prototype” by Rushil Khurana
There are lots of tools and materials that make it easy to design and prototype electronic devices. However, there has been little exploration of the challenges associated with moving beyond a prototype and creating hundreds…
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Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship 2020: Researchers in academia at the forefront of technology
The Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship recognizes innovative, promising new faculty, whose exceptional talent for research and innovation identifies them as emerging leaders in their fields. This year, 185 individuals were nominated. Microsoft Research is…
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Webinar: Designing Computer Vision Algorithms to Describe the Visual World to People Who Are Blind or Low Vision
A common goal in computer vision research is to build machines that can replicate the human vision system (for example, detect an object or scene category, describe an object or scene, or locate an object).…
