Kristin Tolle Discusses SenseCam
Kristin Tolle provides an overview of SenseCam and considers possible future applications.
Back-of-Device Touch Input
This demo explores how to add pointing input capabilities to very small screen devices. On first sight, touch-screens seem to allow for particular compactness, because they integrate input and screen into the same physical space.…
Write in the Air
Lei MA from Microsoft Research Asia, shows how to input characters into devices such as Xboxes and TV’s using a low-cost Webcam using air gestures instead of standard keyboard & mouse input. The gestures captured…
Input Technologies and Techniques (2009)
Reflecting human values in the digital age
Natural Language Moves In-Car Infotainment Forward
Microsoft Research exposes new natural language technologies that raise the bar for functionality, usability and reliability of in-car infotainment systems.
TechFest 2009: Social Desktop
Today, it’s easy to share a webpage or a blog post, because items on the web have unique IDs: URLs. We don’t have this on the desktop. Social Desktop adds URLs to the files and…