Human-computer interaction
Redefining human experiences through innovations in research, design, and technology.
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Human-Data Interaction for Self-Monitoring
Empowering people to improve their lives by fully leveraging the data about themselves In recent years, we have witnessed rapid advancements in consumer health technologies. People are also increasingly tracking personal health data outside…
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Beyond Mouse and Keyboard: Novel Interaction for Visualization
Microsoft continues to innovate in the NUI space, continuously providing new modalities for interacting with our computing systems. We are leveraging our expertise in NUI and developing a radically new way for people to more…
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Data-Driven Storytelling
Practitioners increasingly use visualizations “in the wild” to tell compelling stories supported by data, and continually develop novel techniques that help integrate data visualization into narrative stories. The visualization research community has recently begun to…
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The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff
Personal Information Management (PIM) is an activity in which an individual stores personal information items (e.g. files, emails and Web favorites) in order to retrieve them later. Despite the fact that PIM is a fundamental…
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Data and Visualization Literacy
In this new era of fake news, viral content and social media, data literacy is crucial. Modern citizens in our age of information need to be data literate in order to make informed decisions that may…
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Turing, von Neumann and Brenner in the Deciphering of Biology
We live in interesting times. Seers predict Utopian or Dystopian futures where Algorithms and data will be the gods that rule our destiny and that of the planet. These new gods have taken time arriving.…
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Project AVARE
India is home to the largest population of visually-impaired persons (VIPs) in the world, accounting for around 40% of the world’s total blind population as measured by the World Health Organization (WHO). AVARE (Augmented Virtual…