Human-computer interaction
Redefining human experiences through innovations in research, design, and technology.
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Human-Computer Interaction
The Human-Computer Interaction Group (HCI@MSR) comprises a world-renowned, interdisciplinary team of research scientists, engineers, and designers who take a user-centered approach to developing, designing, and studying computing technology and its use.
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WEye Program: Improving Communication Between Pair Programmers Using Shared Gaze Awareness
This video presents our research improving remote pair programming using a eyetracking-enabled, shared gaze visualization employed in Visual Studio. This video supports our CHI 2017 paper of the same title.
Microsoft Research Blog
Stack of Microsoft researchers earn distinctions from premier computing society
By John Roach, Writer, Microsoft Research Eight computer scientists at Microsoft research labs around the world have been honored as Fellows of the Association of Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society. The organization also…
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Touch-Sensing Input Devices
We can touch things, and our senses tell us when our hands are touching something. But most computer input devices cannot detect when the user touches or releases the device or some portion of the…
Project
Enhancing Input On and Above the Interactive Surface with Muscle Sensing
Current interactive surfaces provide little or no in-formation about which fingers are touching the surface, the amount of pressure exerted, or gestures that occur when not in contact with the surface. These limitations constrain the…
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The Intern Experience at Microsoft Research Cambridge
Find out what it’s like to be an intern at the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge, UK. Real interns talk about the projects they are working on, the culture of the lab and what it’s…
