Social sciences
Project Eclipse
With Project Eclipse, the Urban Innovation Initiative presents a full stack -from sensors to analytics- air quality sensing platform for cities. The goal is a radical increase (10x – 100x) in the geographic granularity of…
Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment (VIBE)
The Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment (VIBE) group conducts research in the areas of: artificial emotion intelligence (AEI), information visualization in machine learning and big data; and human-computer interaction (HCI) in software engineering.
Technology and Empowerment | India
Technology and Empowerment (TEM) is a research umbrella at Microsoft Research India. We build and study socio-technical systems that seek to have a meaningful impact on the daily lives of underserved people and communities.
VROOM: Virtual Robot Overlay for Online Meetings – Video Figure
Telepresence robots allow remote users to freely explore a space they are not in, and provide a physical embodiment in that space. However, they lack a compelling representation of the remote user in the local…
Accessibility – How Microsoft is making technology accessible to more people
Researcher Meredith Ringel Morris discusses three projects highlighted at CHI 2018 which focus on improving technology for people with low-vision or blindness. Topics include featured paper Caption Crawler, Rich representations of visual content for screen…
Exploring the Design Space of AAC Awareness Displays
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices are a critical technology for people with disabilities that affect their speech. One challenge with AAC systems is their inability to portray aspects of nonverbal communication that typically accent,…
Five ways your academic research skills transfer to industry
Graduate students are often coached to pursue a career in higher education, yet the number of available tenure-track positions falls far short of the number of candidates looking to fill them. In reality, about 14…
The Unbearable Modernity of Mobile Money
Intentional Meetings
Exploring how to make remote and hybrid telepresence meetings engaging, effective, adaptive, and inclusive.