Social sciences
Design Expo 2017: Royal College of Art
Each year, Microsoft Research sponsors a semester-long class at leading design schools. Students are asked to form interdisciplinary teams of two to four students to design a user experience prototype that solves a real-world problem.…
Gender Salience and Racial Frames, Potholes for Women in Science: Understanding the Context Before and the Potential Consequences of Sexual Harassment
This talk grounds the experience of harassment sociologically drawing attention to the way that race and gender interact to shape who experiences gender harassment and how they respond to it. Gender salience explains how gender…
Design Expo 2017: University of Washington, Interaction Design Program
Each year, Microsoft Research sponsors a semester-long class at leading design schools. Students are asked to form interdisciplinary teams of two to four students to design a user experience prototype that solves a real-world problem.…
Keynote: AI, People, and Society
Advances in AI promise great benefit to people and organizations. However, as we push the science of AI forward, we need to consider potential downsides, unintended consequences and costly outcomes. Challenges include ethical and legal…
What Lines, Rats, and Sheep Can Tell Us
Utilizing Social Media for Disaster Relief
Effective coordination of post-disaster relief operations depends critically on the availability of reliable situational information, as well as on citizen participation in the operations. The advent of online social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook) and the…
Detection of Aggressive Behaviour on Social Media
As the interaction over the web has increased, incidents of aggression and related events like trolling, cyberbullying, flaming, hate speech, etc. too have increased manifold across the globe. While most of these behaviours like bullying…
Making Voicebots Work for Accents
Voice-driven automated agents such as personal assistants are becoming increasingly popular. However, in a multilingual and multi-cultural country like India, deploying such agents to engage with large sections of the population is highly challenging. A…
