Human-computer interaction
Designing technology that is more intuitive, accessible, and useful across the full range of human experiences.
Please Turn Your Cameras on: Remote Onboarding of Software Developers During a Pandemic
ICSE SEIP 2021 Conference Presentation by former Visiting Researcher Dr. Paige Rodeghero Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way that software development teams onboard new hires. Previously, most software developers worked in physical offices…
Is My Mic On? Preparing SE Students for Collaborative Remote Work and Hybrid Team Communication
ICSE JSEET 2021 Conference Presentation by Makayla Moster Abstract: Communication is essential for the success of student and professional software engineering (SE) team development projects. The projects delivered by SE courses provide valuable learning experiences…
How Was Your Weekend? Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19
ICSE 2021 Conference Presentation by former MSR Intern Courtney Miller Title: How Was Your Weekend? Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19 – Best Paper Award Recipient Abstract: The mass shift to working at home…
Microsoft Research 2021 Global PhD Fellowship Recipients
Meet some of 2021 global PhD Fellowship recipients from around the world.
Research for Industry at Research Summit 2021
Research for Industry at Microsoft Research Summit For 30 years, our research community at Microsoft has worked across disciplines, institutions, and geographies to envision and realize the promise of new technologies for Microsoft and for…
Developer Tech Minutes: Open Source Software for Social Good
Join Senior Researcher, Denae Ford Robinson from Microsoft Research as she discusses Project Open Source Software for Social Good (OSS4SG). This project investigates how developers understand social good within the open-source space, how they select…
Announcing the ORBIT dataset: Advancing real-world few-shot learning using teachable object recognition
Object recognition systems have made spectacular advances in recent years, but they rely on training datasets with thousands of high-quality, labelled examples per object category. Learning new objects from only a few examples could open…
Project Maia
By understanding human decisions at a granular level, Maia can help identify a player’s strengths and weaknesses, with the goal of helping them learn and improve their gameplay.