Research
Designing technology that is more intuitive, accessible, and useful across the full range of human experiences.
Presenting two new technologies that empower consumers to design and produce working physical devices customized to their particular needs: A highly interactive, touch-first 3-D printing app makes 3-D modeling accessible to a broad range of…
Many people are working on near-field user-interface devices that detect hover, gesture, and pose. But there is nothing in the space in front of a device to show the user what to do. This project…
Holograph is an interactive, 3-D data-visualization research platform that can render static and dynamic data above or below the plane of the display using a variety of 3-D stereographic techniques. The platform enables rapid exploration,…
Cortana, the world’s first truly personal digital assistant, is available soon on Windows Phone 8.1. Powered by Bing, Cortana is driven by state-of-the-art algorithms using natural language, machine learning, and contextual signals that benefit from…
NewsPad is a collaborative news editor designed to empower small communities to write articles collaboratively through: community sourcing, structured stories, and the ability to embed the story anywhere. The source code is available under an…
We publish a subset of the data from the paper “Discriminative Ferns Ensemble for Hand Pose Recognition”. To receive a download link for the dataset please send your request to ThreeHandPose@microsoft.com. Data description: The data…
We present LightRing , a wearable sensor in a ring form factor that senses the 2d location of a fingertip on any surface, independent of orientation or material. The device consists of an infrared proximity…
We develop novel eye-gaze tracking technologies in order to make eye-gaze tracking technology ubiquitously available for improved natural user interaction (NUI). In particular, we investigate two approaches: Active IR lighting: We investigate the possibility…
