In the news | The Verge
Microsoft’s new image-captioning AI will help accessibility in Word, Outlook, and beyond
Microsoft has developed a new image-captioning algorithm that exceeds human accuracy in certain limited tests. The AI system has been used to update the company’s assistant app for the visually impaired, Seeing AI, and will soon be incorporated into other…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft explains how it improved automatic image captioning in Azure Cognitive Services
Microsoft today launched a new computer vision service it claims can generate image captions that are, in some cases, more accurate than human-written descriptions. The company calls the service, which is available as part of Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision,…
When doing user research on security and compliance experiences in Microsoft Office, we’ve uncovered learnings about how to design better experiences in this space. Through focus groups, usability studies, and customer conversations, we have been hearing themes about the top…
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft and partners aim to shrink the ‘data desert’ limiting accessible AI
AI-based tools like computer vision and voice interfaces have the potential to be life-changing for people with disabilities, but the truth is those AI models are usually built with very little data sourced from those people. Microsoft is working with…
In the news | The AI Blog
Shrinking the ‘data desert’: Inside efforts to make AI systems more inclusive of people with disabilities
Saqib Shaikh says people who are blind, like himself, typically develop highly organized routines to keep track of their things — putting keys, wallets, canes and other essentials in the same places each time. But sometimes life gets messy: A…
In the news | PR Newswire
Team Gleason Partners With Microsoft on Eye Gaze Data Collection
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Team Gleason is excited to announce Project Insight, the creation of an open dataset of facial imagery of people living with ALS, to help advance innovation in computer vision and broaden the input…
Awards | Microsoft reporter
Microsoft’s Cecily Morrison awarded MBE for services to inclusive design
Cecily Morrison, a principal researcher at Microsoft’s Research Lab in Cambridge, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The 39-year-old, who is currently working on a project that uses technology to help people with low vision understand who’s around them, has been recognised…
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
New steps to preserve and protect journalism and local newsrooms
Growing up in Newton, Kansas our local newspaper, The Kansan, was the lifeblood of our community. At 3:30 p.m. every afternoon it landed on porches and lawns across the town, and we saw our local culture reflected in its pages:…
UX writing might appear to be simple, but that's because there's so much more going on beneath the surface. Once you see a customer use a product and experience problems, you understand how much more needs to go into UX…