Research
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By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Over the next 25 years, research scientists will use technology to better humanity, to make more sense of the world and to use our time more efficiently. We’ll disrupt…
One of the greatest challenges in providing information and communication technology access is that about 775 million people in the world are completely non-literate and many are able to read only with great difficulty and…
By Susan Dumais, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research Women are woefully under-represented in computing-related fields. Despite earning more than half of all baccalaureate degrees throughout North America, women make up fewer than 20 percent of graduates…
The Visualization on Touch Enabled Platforms workshop was part of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2016.
Infographic visualizations are getting increasingly popular, and have been widely adopted in the real world. As research reveals, they can improve the effectiveness of visualizations by making data quickly understood and easily remembered. However, current data visualization…
Neil Harbisson is an avant-garde artist and cyborg activist based in New York. He is best known for being the first person in the world with an antenna implanted in his skull and for being…
Today’s wearable devices are rapidly shrinking in size. The next frontier of personalized computing is the interaction of these wearables with other proximal devices. Future interconnected wearables will thus exchange information with other ambient devices,…
Neil Harbisson is an avant-garde artist and cyborg activist based in New York. He is best known for being the first person in the world with an antenna implanted in his skull and for being…
Fully articulated hand tracking promises to enable fundamentally new interactions with virtual and augmented worlds, but the limited accuracy and efficiency of current systems has prevented widespread adoption. Today’s dominant paradigm uses machine learning for…
