Research
Designing technology that is more intuitive, accessible, and useful across the full range of human experiences.
Imagine you’ve been asked to write a crucial document for your company, perhaps a detailed outline of its long-term strategy. You’re excited, but don’t know when you’ll find the time to write it. As you…
Discussions online are integral to everyday life, affecting how we learn, work, socialize, and participate in public society. Yet the systems that we use to conduct online discourse, whether they be email, chat, or forums,…
Episode 70, April 3, 2019 – On today’s podcast, Ann tells us all about life in the extreme constraint design lane, explains what a PALS is, and tells us some incredibly entertaining stories about how…
When we think of the experiences that search engines are designed to support, criteria such as speed and efficiency instantly come to mind. In this project, we wanted to focus on something different: how the…
Increasingly the things that matter to us live in the digital world, be they on computers and mobile devices, synced across Cloud services, generated as social media, or curated via sites like Pinterest. In this…
ASSESS MS enables a consistent, quantified measure of motor ability using Kinect that is both inexpensive and non-invasive. Using Kinect, the system captures depth videos of neuro-assessment movements performed by patients in a clinical setting…
In this project we explore what it might mean to augment digital agents such as Microsoft Cortana with the ability to see. By partnering with experts in computer vision, speech and machine learning, we ask whether…
