Human-computer interaction
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Leaving My Fingerprints: Motivations and Challenges of Contributing to OSS for Social Good
ICSE 2021 Conference Presentation by former MSR Intern Yu Huang Title: Leaving My Fingerprints: Motivations and Challenges of Contributing to OSS for Social Good Abstract: When inspiring software developers to contribute to open source software,…
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Microsoft Soundscape – Lighting up the World with Sound
Inspired by fatherhood, Amos corralled a group of people at the Guide Dogs for the Blind and Microsoft and together they set out on a quest to reimagine independence and mobility of blind people with…
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The Journey to Microsoft Soundscape
Cities Unlocked is a unique collaboration between Guide Dogs UK and Microsoft, which explores the potential technology has to enable people living with sight loss to get out and about, independently and confidently, in our…
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Cities Unlocked – Introducing 3D Sound for Greater Mobility and Independence
Microsoft, Guide Dogs UK, and Future Cities Catapult launch the results of the first phase of an exciting project which will revolutionize how people with sight loss, and the sighted, experience the urban landscape, by…
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CHI 2021: Making remote and hybrid meetings work in the new future of work
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, some truths about the nature of work have been underscored: it is uniquely complex, quickly shifting, and increasingly technology-mediated. Teaching, medicine, mental health, and other professions—previously thought to…
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Richard Banks – Human Experience Design
This week on CAS TV, we hear from Richard Banks, principal design manager at Microsoft Research Cambridge, about the place and process of human experience design in the technological development process. In his role of…
