Path Guide: Plug-and-play Indoor Navigation
Path Guide is a completely plug-and-play indoor navigation service that does not require maps or any additional equipment. Using Path Guide, users can create routes by recording sensory data with their smartphones while walking indoors,…
Fundamentals of User Studies
Overview of important methods and techniques applied in user studies from the perspective of academic research, and also from the perspective of product development. The talk is ended with two examples of projects done at…
Spoken Dialogue Systems – Personal Assistants and Non-Task Oriented Systems
Part 2 of Alan W Black’s Spoken Dialogue Systems talk based on lectures he gave at Carnegie Mellon University.
RoboCOP: A Robotic Coach for Oral Presentations
Project Vermont: Improving camera performance through curved image sensors
By Richard Stoakley, Microsoft Research It’s hard to remember when our world wasn’t full of cameras. They’re in our phones and tablets, posted on street corners and in our buildings and cars. We rely on…