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Human-computer interaction

Redefining human experiences through innovations in research, design, and technology.

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Microsoft at CHI 2024: Innovations in human-centered design

Microsoft Research Forum video on the Metacognitive Demands of Generative AI

Embodied AI Workshop at CVPR 2024

Publication

When to Show a Suggestion? Integrating Human Feedback in AI-Assisted Programming

Hussein Mozannar, Gagan Bansal, Adam Fourney, Eric Horvitz

AAAI 2024 | January 2024

Publication

AI Transparency in the Age of LLMs: A Human-Centered Research Roadmap

Q. Vera Liao, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Harvard Data Science Review | February 2024

Project

Microsoft Research Blog

Research at Microsoft 2023: A year of groundbreaking AI advances and discoveries

December 22, 2023

AI saw unparalleled growth in 2023, reaching millions daily. This progress owes much to the extensive work of Microsoft researchers and collaborators. In this review, learn about the advances in 2023, which set the stage…

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Sensing Wellbeing in the Workplace, Why and For Whom? Envisioning Impacts with Organizational Stakeholders

Anna Kawakami, Shreya Chowdhary, Shamsi T. Iqbal, Q. Liao, Alexandra Olteanu, J. Suh, Koustuv Saha, Alexandra Olteanu, Jina Suh

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction | March 2023, Vol 7: pp. 1-33

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Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023

Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Nancy Baym, Mary Czerwinski, Shamsi Iqbal, Kate Nowak, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Najeeb G. Abdulhamid, Judith Amores, Reid Andersen, Kagonya Awori, Maxamed Axmed, danah boyd, James Brand, Georg Buscher, Dean Carignan, Martin Chan, Adam Coleman, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Adam Fourney, Daniel G. Goldstein, Andy Gordon, Aaron L Halfaker, Javier Hernandez, Jake Hofman, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Vera Liao, Siân Lindley, Sathish Manivannan, Charlton Mcilwain, Subigya Nepal, Jennifer Neville, Stephanie Nyairo, Jacki O'Neill, Victor Poznanski, Gonzalo Ramos, Nagu Rangan, Lacey Rosedale, David Rothschild, Tara Safavi, Advait Sarkar, Ava Scott, Chirag Shah, Neha Parikh Shah, Teny Shapiro, Ryland Shaw, Auste Simkute, Jina Suh, Siddharth Suri, Ioana Tanase, Lev Tankelevitch, Adam Troy, Mengting Wan, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan

MSR-TR-2023-34 | December 2023

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Publication

Embodying Physics-Aware Avatars in Virtual Reality

Yujie Tao, Cheng Yao Wang, Andrew D. Wilson, Eyal Ofek, Mar Gonzalez Franco

CHI ’23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2023

Video

Effective Human-AI Decision-Making or Everyone: A Sisyphean Task?

December 15, 2023 | Ujwal Gadiraju

The talk will capture the broad scope of Human-AI decision-making, the prevalent challenges in this space, the role of trust, and how we can foster appropriate reliance on AI systems.

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Profile-Error-Tolerant Target-Speaker Voice Activity Detection

Dongmei Wang, Xiong Xiao, Naoyuki Kanda, Midia Yousefi, Takuya Yoshioka, Jian Wu

ICASSP 2024 | April 2024

Microsoft Research Blog

Research Focus: Week of December 4, 2023

December 6, 2023

Research Focus: Using LLMs in a Rust-based formal verification framework; Rethinking network measurements with user feedback; 3D telemedicine using HoloportationTM communication technology could enhance overseas surgical visits.

Microsoft Research Blog

Exploring LLMs’ potential to help facilitators enhance online healthcare communities

December 5, 2023 | Najeeb G. Abdulhamid, Jacki O'Neill, Keshet Ronen

Many patients in low- and middle-income countries rely on facilitated online health communities for information and support. Discover how large language models can assist the facilitators and boost outcomes.

Human-computer interaction

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