Research
Designing technology that is more intuitive, accessible, and useful across the full range of human experiences.
A new synthesis is emerging that integrates AI technologies with Human-Computer Interaction to produce Human-Centered AI (HCAI). Advocates of this new synthesis seek to amplify, augment, and enhance human abilities, so as to empower people,…
This CHI 2023 research video shows the Escapement interactive video-prototyping tool in action. Escapement is a video prototyping tool that introduces a powerful new concept for prototyping screen-based interfaces by flexibly mapping sensor values to…
This CHI 2023 video demonstrates AdHocProx, a system that uses device-relative, inside-out sensing to augment co-located collaboration across multiple devices, without recourse to externally-anchored beacons – or even reliance on WiFi connectivity. AdHocProx achieves this…
Reinventing how we work together The Transcendence Project at Microsoft Research is reimagining interaction, productivity, and collaboration, harnessing the power of AI to transcend space, time, and modality, and redefine how we work together in…
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Yael Tauman Kalai, a senior principal researcher at…
