Research
Designing technology that is more intuitive, accessible, and useful across the full range of human experiences.
This project illustrates how complex data can be visualized using a web browser in both mixed and plain reality to immerse a user in a story and communicate insights. Immersive visualization and storytelling techniques allow…
We leverage multiple synchronized instances of a data visualization app on Windows 10 devices such as a Surface Hub, HoloLens and Surface Laptop. This allows each device to see and engage in a collaborative experience…
We are motivated by the problem of building autonomous robots that are able to perform complex tasks ranging from inspection and diagnosis to manipulating soft tissue. Learning from demonstration is a useful mechanism for a…
Dr. Eyal Ofek is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research and his work deals mainly with, well, reality. Augmented and virtual reality, to be precise. A serial entrepreneur before he came to MSR, Dr. Ofek…
Dr. Susan Dumais knows you have things to do, and if you need help finding stuff to get them done (and you probably do) then her long and illustrious career in search technologies has been…
“Imagine spending hours of your day, every day, battling with your teenage kids to do their physiotherapy. While others play video games, you are telling yours ‘no you can’t go game with your friends –…
The visual world around us is highly structured. As 2D projection of our world, images are also structured. In images, there are usually a background and some foreground objects (e.g., kites and birds in the…
Dr. Ed Cutrell is a Principal Researcher in the Ability group at Microsoft Research and he’s convinced that great technology should be available to everyone. Working in the fields of Accessibility and Information and Communication…
