Social sciences - Microsoft Research

Publication

Participant concerns for the Learner in a Virtual Reality replication of the Milgram obedience study

Mar Gonzalez Franco, Mel Slater, Megan E. Birney, David Swapp, S. Alexander Haslam, Stephen D. Reicher

PLoS ONE 13(12): e0209704. | December 2018, pp. 1-16

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Mindfulness with Kawakami-san

December 20, 2018 | Rev. Takafumi Kawakami

Rev. Takafumi Kawakami, Deputy Head Priest at Kyoto’s Shunkoin Temple, embraces the skill of mindfulness as the center of Zen Buddhism and meditation, inspiring us all to slow our frantic lives to stay true to…

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Social and Emotional Artificial Intelligence

December 14, 2018 | Jesse Hoey

Given that emotion is a key element of human interaction, enabling artificial agents with the ability to reason about affect is a key stepping stone towards a future in which technological agents and humans can…

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Designing Emotionally Sentient Agents

Daniel McDuff, Mary Czerwinski

Communications of the ACM | December 2018, Vol 61(12): pp. 74-83

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Quantificational cues modulate the processing of English subject-verb agreement by native Chinese speakers: an ERP study

Andrew Armstrong, Nyssa Bulkes, Darren Tanner

Studies in Second Language Acquisition | December 2018, Vol 41(4): pp. 731-754

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Local Partition in Rich Graphs

Scott Freitas, Nan Cao, Yinglong Xia, Duen Horng Polo Chau, Hanghang Tong

2018 International Conference on Big Data | November 2018

Project

Thinga.Me

Featuring “GrabCut” segmentation technology, developed at Microsoft Research Cambridge, Thinga.Me was an iPhone app that allowed people to take photos of the important physical items in their lives, quickly cut them out, and arrange them…

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‘We can go anywhere’: Understanding independence through a case study of ride-hailing use by people with visual impairments in metropolitan India

Vaishnav Kameswaran, Jatin Gupta, Joyojeet Pal (jopal), Sile O’Modhrain, Tiffany C. Veinot, Robin N. Brewer, Aakanksha Parameshwar, Vidhya Y, Jacki O'Neill

Computer Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW) | November 2018

CSCW Best Paper

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Digitizing Monetary Ecologies: Intended and Unintended Consequences of Introducing a Financial Management App in a Low-Resource Setting

Srihari Hulikal Muralidhar, Claus Bossen, Apurv Mehra, Jacki O'Neill

Proceedings of ACM on Human-Computer Interaction | November 2018, Vol 2(CSCW)

Article No. 72

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SSDMV: Semi-supervised deep social spammer detection by multi-view data fusion

Chaozhuo Li, Senzhang Wang, Lifang He, Philip S. Yu, Yanbo Liang, Zhoujun Li

ICDM | November 2018