Human-computer interaction
Redefining human experiences through innovations in research, design, and technology.
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Soundscape LinkedIn Accessibility Demo [Audio Description]
The Microsoft Soundscape app enables anyone to hear the physical world around them. It’s a powerful tool that reimagines how technology can enhance independence and mobility for people who are blind and low vision. In…
Microsoft Research Blog
Encouraging developers and manufacturers to innovate with Eye Control
Eye Control is an exciting technology in Windows 10 that allows customers to use their eyes to control an on-screen mouse, keyboard and text-to-speech experience. This is a technology that empowers people with limited mobility…
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How Eye Control empowers people with disabilities (Audio Description)
In this video, Jon Campbell shows Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella how Eye Control, in combination with the Eye Drive library and additional software, can be used to operate a remote-control car or wheelchair. Both are…
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A Human/Machine Partnership to Accelerate Biomedical Research
Our greatest opportunity for problem-solving comes not from humans alone or from Artificial Intelligence (AI) alone, but by combining them in distributed networks. Leveraging the complementary abilities of humans and machines allows us to create…
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SearchTogether Lasting Impact Talk
Lasting Impact Award talk at the UIST 2018 conference in Berlin, reflecting on the SearchTogether project.
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Soundscape
The Soundscape code is now available as open-source software, so that anyone can continue to build on, and find new ways to leverage, this novel feature set for the growing navigation opportunities in today’s world.…
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