Human-computer interaction
Redefining human experiences through innovations in research, design, and technology.
Podcast
Beautiful data with Dr. Nathalie Riche
Dr. Nathalie Riche envisions a future in which all of our data will be accessible, meaningful, compelling and artistic. And as a researcher in human computer interaction and information visualization at Microsoft Research, she’s working…
Tool
Microsoft Icecaps: An Open-Source Toolkit for Conversation Modeling
Microsoft Icecaps is a new open-source NLP toolkit featuring pre-trained models and an emphasis on conversational scenarios
Project
Text-to-Viz
Information graphics (infographics) can effectively deliver messages in an engaging and memorable fashion. Hence, they have now gained tremendous popularity in presentations, documents, dashboards, etc. However, as a task usually requiring high-level design creativity and…
Video
Vision-and-Dialog Navigation
Dialog-enabled smart assistants, which communicate via natural language and occupy human homes, have seen widespread adoption in recent years. These systems can communicate information, but do not manipulate objects or move themselves. By contrast, manipulation-capable…
Video
Closing the Gap: Designing for the Last-Few-Meters Wayfinding Problem for People with Visual Impairments
Despite the major role of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) as a navigation tool for people with visual impairments (VI), a crucial missing aspect of point-to-point navigation with these systems is the last-few-meters wayfinding problem. Due…
