Human-computer interaction
Redefining human experiences through innovations in research, design, and technology.
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Bing Transfer Partnership
Learn about the ways in which advances made by Microsoft Research blend seamlessly with Bing search and Bing maps.
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Scalable Language-Model-Building Tool
This scalable language-model tool is used to build language models from large amounts of data. It supports modified absolute discounting and Kneser-Ney smoothing. The tool has been used successfully to build a seven-gram language model…
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Pen + Touch = New Tools
We describe techniques for direct pen+touch input. We observe people’s manual behaviors with physical paper and notebooks. These serve as the foundation for a prototype Microsoft Surface application, centered on note-taking and scrapbooking of materials.…
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Combining Multiple Depth Cameras and Projectors for Interactions On, Above, and Between Surfaces
Instrumented with multiple depth cameras and projectors, LightSpace is a small room installation designed to explore a variety of interactions and computational strategies relat-ed to interactive displays and the space that they inhabit. LightSpace cameras…
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LightSpace Takes Surface Computing into the New Realm of Spatial Computing
Andy Wilson, senior researcher and Hrvoje Benko, researcher, both from Microsoft Research explain their LightSpace research project. LightSpace combines elements of surface computing and augmented reality research to create a highly interactive space where any…
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Pen + Touch = New Tools
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LightSpace
LightSpace combines elements of surface computing and augmented reality research to create a highly interactive space where any surface, and even the space between surfaces, is fully interactive. Our concept transforms the ideas of surface…