Human-computer interaction
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Explorations on Multi-lingual Neural Machine Translation
Deep (recurrent) neural networks has been shown to successfully learn complex mappings between arbitrary length input and output sequences, within the effective framework of encoder-decoder networks. We investigate the extensions of this sequence to sequence…
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Demonstration of Logan: Event Sequence Exploration
Logan is a visualization tool for visually building queries against sequences of events, phrased as visual regular expressions. The tool finds all sequences of events that match the expression. It features an ability to visually…
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Ultrasound-Based Gesture Recognition
Sensing technologies have been steadily gaining popularity since they can provide useful and complementary data in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) algorithms. In this study, we explore the feasibility of using ultrasonic imaging to recognize hand…
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Lightwear: An Exploration in Wearable Light Therapy
In an effort to more substantively explore factors related to the wearability, convenience, contextual appropriateness, and social acceptability of on-body light therapy usage, we developed and evaluated six fashion-aligned wearable therapy prototypes leveraging light-emitting materials…
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Towards Better User Interfaces for 3D
Three-dimensional (3D) user interfaces are popular in movies. Moreover, there are now many systems that enable people to interact with 3D content, including computer games. Based on reflections on the capabilities and limitations of both…
Microsoft Research Blog
The next 25 years of research: Disruption, invention and an element of surprise
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Over the next 25 years, research scientists will use technology to better humanity, to make more sense of the world and to use our time more efficiently. We’ll disrupt…