Research
Designing technology that is more intuitive, accessible, and useful across the full range of human experiences.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
