Human-computer interaction
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A public right to hear: Understanding what it means and why it matters online
Microsoft Researcher Mike Ananny discusses what personal freedom is, its evolving importance in online environments, and the role big-data systems play this emerging field.
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Kinect Identity and Avatar: Now and Future
Microsoft Research Asia Assistant Managing Director Baining Guo, researchers Jian Sun and Lijuan Wang jointly introduces the projects of Kinect Identity that recognizes users, Avatar Kinect that tracks users’ facial expression, and 3D photo-real talking…
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Old World, NUI World: The Future of Digital Interaction
Shahram Izadi, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Jamie Shotton and Tom Rodden discuss and demonstrate Natural User Interfaces during the 20th Anniversary event in Cambridge, UK.
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This is Microsoft Research
Rick Rashid, Chief Research Officer, Microsoft Research, makes opening remarks at the Microsoft Research Redmond’s 20th anniversary event.
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Programming Life
Life is a product of Living Software: programmable matter that orchestrates a range of remarkable functions, from the self-assembly of every organism on Earth, to the ability to recognise and fight pathogens, to creating intelligence,…
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Hsiao-Wuen Hon introduces Microsoft Research Asia’s symposium marking 20 years of Microsoft Research
Hsiao-Wuen Hon, managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, welcomed the organization’s long-term collaborators as part of commemorating two decades of Microsoft Research. He highlighted the latest research developed in areas including systems and software, data…
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Researchers Highlight Collaborations with Kinect for Xbox 360
Microsoft researchers around the globe highlight research contributions to Kinect for Xbox 360 and collaborations with the team that developed the product.
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Kinect Identity: Player recognition in Xbox
Introducing how Kinect performs player identity recognition in Xbox, what we call “Kinect Identity.” A primary challenge in developing a natural user interface for the Kinect is how to seamlessly recognize a player’s identity to…
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Mobile Indoor Navigation
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily find a particular store in a crowded shopping mall, or locate an office in an unfamiliar building, using just your cell phone? Feng Zhao, assistant managing director…
