Graphics & multimedia
Advancing how digital images, video, and 3D experiences are created, processed, and experienced.
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AIDS Memorial Quilt Interactive Exhibit
Donald Brinkman narrates this look back at how Microsoft Research, in close partnership with the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California, Brown University, University of Iowa Digital Studio for Public Humanities, National…
Making Smooth Topical Connections on Touch Devices
By representing a collection of text, image, or other documents as a grid of keywords of various font sizes indicating the words’ weights, the documents’ relatedness is revealed. Smooth thematic shifts become evident, connecting distant…
BodyAvatar: Creating 3-D Avatars with Your Body and Imagination
Bored of having an ordinary-looking avatar? Want to create something unique? A dragon? A butterfly? An alien? BodyAvatar is a natural interface that lets Kinect players create 3-D avatars of any shape that they can…
Facing Interaction
How can we communicate one’s biometric info, in non-verbal ways, to others, ourselves, places and across time? Under the assumptions that one’s face is a sound window to somebody’s emotion, we constructed different art pieces…
BodyAvatar: Creating 3-D Avatars with Your Body and Imagination
Bored of having an ordinary-looking avatar? Want to create something unique? A dragon? A butterfly? An alien? BodyAvatar is a natural interface that lets Kinect players create 3-D avatars of any shape that they can…