Human-computer interaction
Redefining human experiences through innovations in research, design, and technology.
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The PowerPoint Assistant
We show how PowerPoint can be augmented with a Software Assistant able to “watch” the user create content, in order to provide different kinds of new services. They include automated fact-checking-and-fixing, and the quick delivery…
Project
Dialog and Conversational Systems Research
Conversational systems interact with people through language to assist, enable, or entertain. Research at Microsoft spans dialogs that use language exclusively, or in conjunctions with additional modalities like gesture; where language is spoken or in…
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Building Embedded Sensor Systems to Bring Ubicomp to Life
Although we have successfully created smaller, faster, and cheaper computer devices, several adoption barriers remain to realize the dream of Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp). By lowering these barriers, we can seamlessly embed human-computer interfaces into our…
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