Awards | A Taxonomy of Sounds in Virtual Reality
Best Paper, ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS2021)
In the news | Inside It
Mixed-Reality-Brillen werden die Smartphones verdrängen
Mixed Reality kombiniert die physische Welt mit digitalen Objekten und wird im Geschäftsumfeld für Wartungsarbeiten und Bildung eingesetzt. Marktforscher sagen der Technologie eine grosse Karriere vorher. "In etwa 10 Jahren werden Mixed-Reality-Brillen die handelsüblichen Smartphones ersetzen", erklärt auch ETH-Professor Marc…
In the news | MedPage Today
An Expert’s Perspective on ‘Precision Population Health’
It is a well-established fact that multiple factors (e.g., family history/genetics, clinical care, socioeconomics, lifestyle) contribute to the prevalence and outcomes of cardiovascular disease. Today, accruing evidence suggests that a strong relationship also exists between economic indicators (e.g., wealth, prosperity,…
Creating the Future of Software Development
“If you think about the world that we’re in now, software plays a key role in our lives – in everything we do. And at the core of solving big problems and fundamental challenges is the ability to use software…
In the news | TechRepublic
Want to ruin a developer’s day? Coders reveal what really destroys their productivity
How many meetings per day is too many? According to new research by GitHub, any more than two is enough to have a massive impact on how much quality work your developers can get done – not to mention make…
In the news | ZDNet
Want to keep developers happy and productive? One change to their working day could be the key
Developers working remotely hate disruptions and don't feel helped when they need to hop on yet another video meeting, Microsoft-owned code sharing site GitHub has found in a small but interesting survey. Most of us know that interruptions can break…
By Stojan Trajanovski, Chad Atalla, Kunho Kim, Vipul Agarwal, Milad Shokouhi, and Chris Quirk Email and chat communication tools are increasingly important for completing daily professional and personal tasks. Given the recent pandemic and shift to remote work, this usage…
Opportunities of fulltime visiting researcher: MSR Deep Learning team is working on broad topics centered around deep learning, and has a sub-team specifically focusing on vision-language multimodal intelligence.
More than 1 billion people worldwide live with a disability. Using the social model of disability, we ask ourselves if the technology we develop creates or removes barriers for users who are already experiencing challenges in a physical world that was not designed for them. For example, an overwhelming interface…