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Achieving Zero-COGS with Microsoft Editor Neural Grammar Checker
Microsoft Editor provides AI-powered writing assistance to millions of users around the world. One of its features that writers of all levels and domains rely on is the grammar checker, which detects grammar errors in…
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Highlights from CHI 2023
The ways in which people are able to interact with technologies can have a profound effect on a technology’s utility and adoptability. Building computing tools and services around people’s natural styles of work, communication, and…
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Human-Centered AI: Ensuring Human Control While Increasing Automation
A new synthesis is emerging that integrates AI technologies with Human-Computer Interaction to produce Human-Centered AI (HCAI). Advocates of this new synthesis seek to amplify, augment, and enhance human abilities, so as to empower people,…
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Escapement: A Tool for Interactive Prototyping with Video via Sensor-Mediated Abstraction of Time
This CHI 2023 research video shows the Escapement interactive video-prototyping tool in action. Escapement is a video prototyping tool that introduces a powerful new concept for prototyping screen-based interfaces by flexibly mapping sensor values to…
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AdHocProx: Sensing Mobile, Ad-Hoc Collaborative Device Formations using Dual Ultra-Wideband Radios
This CHI 2023 video demonstrates AdHocProx, a system that uses device-relative, inside-out sensing to augment co-located collaboration across multiple devices, without recourse to externally-anchored beacons – or even reliance on WiFi connectivity. AdHocProx achieves this…
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Transcendence
Reinventing how we work together The Transcendence Project at Microsoft Research is reimagining interaction, productivity, and collaboration, harnessing the power of AI to transcend space, time, and modality, and redefine how we work together in…