Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
Podcast
Engineering research to life with Gavin Jancke
If you want an inside look at how a research idea goes from project to prototype to product, you should hang out with Gavin Jancke for a while. He’s the General Manager of Engineering for…
Project
Project Zanzibar
Project Zanzibar is a flexible, portable mat that can sense and track physical objects, identify what they are, and allow you to interact through multi-touch and hover gestures.
Publication
The BBC micro: bit: from the U.K. to the world
Project
Quickr: Cost-Effective Data Analytics at Scale
Quickr explores cost-effective data analytics at scale, breaking new ground in research on offering approximate answers for complex ad-hoc queries.
Project
Project Eclipse
With Project Eclipse, the Urban Innovation Initiative presents a full stack -from sensors to analytics- air quality sensing platform for cities. The goal is a radical increase (10x – 100x) in the geographic granularity of…
Group
Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment (VIBE)
The Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment (VIBE) group conducts research in the areas of: artificial emotion intelligence (AEI), information visualization in machine learning and big data; and human-computer interaction (HCI) in software engineering.
Group
Technology and Empowerment | India
Technology and Empowerment (TEM) is a research umbrella at Microsoft Research India. We build and study socio-technical systems that seek to have a meaningful impact on the daily lives of underserved people and communities.
Video
Virtual reality without vision: A haptic and auditory white cane to navigate complex virtual worlds
Video Figure accompanying CHI 2020 paper, demonstrating a novel haptic device that allows a white cane user to interact with a large, complex virtual environment. Full paper is available at https://aka.ms/VRWhiteCane Current Virtual Reality (VR)…
Group
Enable Group
We create technology innovations that improve the lives of people with disabilities. As part of this effort, we embrace the concept of universal design, where we aim to bring new experiences to all users with…