Human-computer interaction
Redefining human experiences through innovations in research, design, and technology.
Project
Text-to-Viz
Information graphics (infographics) can effectively deliver messages in an engaging and memorable fashion. Hence, they have now gained tremendous popularity in presentations, documents, dashboards, etc. However, as a task usually requiring high-level design creativity and…
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Vision-and-Dialog Navigation
Dialog-enabled smart assistants, which communicate via natural language and occupy human homes, have seen widespread adoption in recent years. These systems can communicate information, but do not manipulate objects or move themselves. By contrast, manipulation-capable…
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Closing the Gap: Designing for the Last-Few-Meters Wayfinding Problem for People with Visual Impairments
Despite the major role of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) as a navigation tool for people with visual impairments (VI), a crucial missing aspect of point-to-point navigation with these systems is the last-few-meters wayfinding problem. Due…
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Multilingual Model Transfer
In this project we develop new deep learning models for bootstrapping language understanding models for languages with no labeled data using labeled data from other languages.
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Gaze Interaction Apps
The Eye Control Toolkit is a collection of helper classes and sample apps that demonstrate the usage of the eye tracker APIs in Windows 10 RS4.
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Cars, Computing and the Future of Work: Specific topics of mutual interest
Cars, Computing and the Future of Work: Specific topics of mutual interest (10 min each + 10 min discussion) The workshop will address challenges, opportunities, and futures at the intersection of mobility and productivity, including…
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Quantum Computing and Workforce, Curriculum, and Application Development: Overview and access
Transforming Our Future – Quantum Computing and Workforce, Curriculum, and Application Development: An overview and access to hands-on, software-driven curriculum An overview and access to hands-on, software-driven curriculum and, specifically, what makes it pressing and…
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Crowd, Cloud and the Future of Work: Updates from human AI computation
Crowd, Cloud and the Future of Work: Updates from human AI computation, citizen science projects on Azure 10:15 am – The Thinking Economy and the Future of Labor 10:30 am – Help Me to Help…
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Quantum Computing and Workforce, Curriculum, and Application Development: Insight into real-world quantum applications
Transforming Our Future – Quantum Computing and Workforce, Curriculum, and Application Development: Insight into real-world quantum applications We will share results of a partnership with a leading computational chemistry group that yielded open-source, high-performance computational…
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Cars, Computing and the Future of Work: A UW & MSR Workshop: Welcome and Overview of Projects
Cars, Computing and the Future of Work: A UW & MSR Workshop: Welcome and Overview of Projects 9:00 AM–9:20 AM | Welcome and introductions 9:20 AM–10:40 AM | Overview of ongoing projects (10 min each…
