Research
Designing technology that is more intuitive, accessible, and useful across the full range of human experiences.
For decades, various companies, people, and institutes have worked on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems aimed at healthy users, including pilots, drivers, soldiers, and the public at large. Advancements such as dry electrodes, wireless EEG amplifiers,…
In the mental health context, this means that we strive to reduce the gap between people who suffer from mental illness, whether it is diagnosed, long-term, or situational, and the tools and interventions that can…
Technology and Empowerment (TEM) is a research umbrella at Microsoft Research India. We build and study socio-technical systems that seek to have a meaningful impact on the daily lives of underserved people and communities.
Digital imagery pervades modern life. More than a billion images per day are produced and uploaded to social media sites, and we also encounter digital images within websites, apps, digital documents, and eBooks. Engaging with…
InChorus employs multimodal interactions that function consistently across different visualizations, supporting common operations during visual data analysis. InChorus synergistically combines multiple forms of input (i.e., pen, touch, & speech) to allow people to stay in…
Microsoft Academic is a project exploring how to assist human conducting scientific research by leveraging machine’s cognitive power in memory, computation, sensing, attention, and endurance.
Video Figure accompanying CHI 2020 paper, demonstrating a novel haptic device that allows a white cane user to interact with a large, complex virtual environment. Full paper is available at https://aka.ms/VRWhiteCane Current Virtual Reality (VR)…
Telepresence robots allow remote users to freely explore a space they are not in, and provide a physical embodiment in that space. However, they lack a compelling representation of the remote user in the local…
This project considers how to design emerging Mixed Reality technologies (including AR and VR) so that they are usable by and useful to people of all abilities. Too often, the accessibility of technology to people…
The Ability team conducts research at the intersection of HCI and AI, with the aim of developing innovative technologies that extend the capabilities of and enhance quality of life for people with disabilities (long-term, temporary…
