Human-computer interaction
Redefining human experiences through innovations in research, design, and technology.
Publication
The Dialog State Tracking Challenge
Project
Meeting Recognition and Understanding
In most organizations, staff spend many hours in meetings. This project addresses all levels of analysis and understanding, from speaker tracking and robust speech transcription to meaning extraction and summarization, with the goal of increasing…
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Research Bits: Emerson Murphy-Hill and Dean Mohamedally
“Research Bits” provide a glimpse into the research being conducted around the world through brief interviews with researchers. First, Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University, talks about his research on how human computer interaction intersects…
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Research in Focus: Sign Language Translation
Today, researchers are using Kinect’s amazing abilities in a host of applications, from surgery to virtual fitting rooms. Stewart Tansley of Microsoft Research, Tim Pan of Microsoft Research Asia, and Professor Xilin Chen of the…
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Interaction for Machine Learning
The traditional role of the human operator in machine learning problems is that of a batch labeler, whose work is done before the learning even begins. However, humans can provide guidance to a learning system…
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Fueling the Future: FAPESP
Microsoft Research is committed to investing in the future of computer science research through its Joint Research Center program as illustrated through the story of the Microsoft Research – FAPESP Joint Research center. Joint research…
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Fueling the Future: FAPESP
This five-minute video is part of campaign to increase the awareness within the academic research community of the extent that Microsoft Research invests in the future of computer science research. Its core message is that…
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Lab of Things Intro
Lab of Things (LoT) is a flexible platform for research that uses connected devices in homes. LoT enables researchers to easily interconnect devices and implement application scenarios. It enables field studies at scale through cloud…
