Human-computer interaction
Redefining human experiences through innovations in research, design, and technology.
Video
TechFest 2009: GeoLife 2.0
The increasing availability of GPS-enabled devices is changing the way people interact with the web and brings a large number of GPS trajectories representing peoples’ location histories. GeoLife 2.0 is a location based social-networking service…
Video
Digital Past to Digital Presence
From archiving your memorabilia to new ways to communicate with your family, Principal Researcher Richard Harper from Microsoft Research Cambridge, demonstrates a suite of new household technologies.
Project
EntityCube
EntityCube is a research prototype for exploring object-level search technologies, which automatically summarizes the Web for entities (such as people, locations and organizations) with a modest web presence. The Chinese-language version is called Renlifang. The need…
Project
GeoLife: Building Social Networks Using Human Location History
GeoLife is a location-based social-networking service, which enables users to share life experiences and build connections among each other using human location history. Dr. Yu Zheng started this project in 2007 with his team. Application…
Publication
What Still Matters about Distance?
Publication