The PowerPoint Assistant

March 21, 2014
Yi Wei, Microsoft; Youssef Hamadi, Microsoft

We show how PowerPoint can be augmented with a Software Assistant able to “watch” the user create content, in order to provide different kinds of new services. They include automated fact-checking-and-fixing, and the quick delivery of related material.

- Yi Wei
  
  Research SDE
- Youssef Hamadi
Research Area
- Human-computer interaction

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