Human-computer interaction
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The Journey to Microsoft Soundscape
Cities Unlocked is a unique collaboration between Guide Dogs UK and Microsoft, which explores the potential technology has to enable people living with sight loss to get out and about, independently and confidently, in our…
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Cities Unlocked – Introducing 3D Sound for Greater Mobility and Independence
Microsoft, Guide Dogs UK, and Future Cities Catapult launch the results of the first phase of an exciting project which will revolutionize how people with sight loss, and the sighted, experience the urban landscape, by…
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CHI 2021: Making remote and hybrid meetings work in the new future of work
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, some truths about the nature of work have been underscored: it is uniquely complex, quickly shifting, and increasingly technology-mediated. Teaching, medicine, mental health, and other professions—previously thought to…
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Richard Banks – Human Experience Design
This week on CAS TV, we hear from Richard Banks, principal design manager at Microsoft Research Cambridge, about the place and process of human experience design in the technological development process. In his role of…
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Platform for Situated Intelligence Workshop | Day 2
The Platform for Situated Intelligence Workshop took place on April 27-28, 2021. Platform for Situated Intelligence is an open-source framework from Microsoft Research that significantly accelerates development and research on multimodal, integrative-AI applications. This framework…
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Platform for Situated Intelligence Workshop | Day 1
The Platform for Situated Intelligence Workshop took place on April 27-28, 2021. Platform for Situated Intelligence is an open-source framework from Microsoft Research that significantly accelerates development and research on multimodal, integrative-AI applications. This framework…
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HAX Playbook
The Human-AI eXperience (HAX) Playbook is an interactive tool for generating interaction scenarios to test when designing user-facing AI systems. The Playbook helps you test AI interaction designs before building out a fully functional system.…
Microsoft Research Blog
Hands-on research and prototyping for haptics
While many of us think of human-computer interaction as a job for the eyes, ears and mind, we don’t think as often about the importance and complexity of our tactile interactions with computers. Haptics –…
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SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award Talk: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Search (CHI 2020)
CHI ’21: The 2021 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Session: Awards: SIGCHI 2020 Award Talks Speaker: Susan Dumais I have long been interested in how people seek information from external sources…
