Social sciences
Studying how people, societies, and technology shape one another to create more equitable and effective computing experiences.
Valuing expertise from the people we serve
Day 2 | November 18, 2020 Theme: Building a Pipeline from Research to Impact Donna Auguste, Auguste Research Group The Accessible Computer Science Education Fall Workshop was hosted by Microsoft, University of Washington CREATE, and…
How a remote video game coding camp improved autistic college students’ self-efficacy in communication
Day 1 | November 17, 2020 Theme: Envisioning the Future of Tech for Inclusion Andrew Begel, Microsoft The Accessible Computer Science Education Fall Workshop was hosted by Microsoft, University of Washington CREATE, and University of…
Platform Biography: A framework for analyzing the structures and dynamics of social media
Social media platforms have become influential in every sphere of communication, from the intimate and mundane to the public, professional, and political. It’s tempting to view a platform as a single “technology”—a static object that…
Platform Biography: A framework for analyzing the structures and dynamics of social media webinar
In this webinar, based on the book Twitter: A Biography, Microsoft Senior Principal Researcher Nancy Baym and Queensland University of Technology Professor Jean Burgess introduce an original approach to this problem: the Platform Biography, a systematic framework for analyzing social media platforms. The framework provides a toolbox…
MSR Twitter Local Events
This is a video about a Microsoft Research project called Twitter Local Events. The goal of this project is to detect events (e.g., sports, weather, protests, shootings, etc.) that happen in a small area and…
Microsoft at CSCW 2020
Microsoft is proud to be a sponsor of the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.