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Abstracts: September 30, 2024
| Amber Tingle, Daniela Massiceti, and Martin Grayson
The personalizable object recognizer Find My Things was recently recognized for accessible design. Researcher Daniela Massiceti and software development engineer Martin Grayson talk about the research project’s origins and the tech advances making it possible.
Awards | Computing Research Association
Martez Mott receives CRA-WP Skip Ellis Early Career Award
Mott focuses on designing, building, and evaluating novel intelligent interactive technologies that are guided by scientific understandings of people’s experiences with computers and information.
Frontiers of multimodal learning: A responsible AI approach
New evaluation methods and a commitment to continual improvement are musts if we’re to build multimodal AI systems that advance human goals. Learn about cutting-edge research into the responsible development and use of multimodal AI at Microsoft.
In the news | Valor Econômico
Brasileiro lidera pesquisa na Microsoft
Pergunte ao brasileiro Henrique Malvar qual seu trabalho atual e ele lhe contará um episódio passado recentemente em Cingapura…
In the news | Ahmedabad Mirror
Microsoft’s AI Tech Helps Blind Kids To Make Friends, Build Confidence
Tech giant Microsoft has developed a novel Artificial Intelligence-based technology that helps blind children and young people better understand their immediate social environment, interact with peers and gain confidence more easily.
In the news | Microsoft Research Website
Dhruv “DJ” Jain awarded 2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant
Dhruv “DJ” Jain, an intern alumni of the Microsoft Research Ability group, has been named a recipient of the 2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant for his dissertation titled “Sound Sensing and Feedback Techniques for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users”.…
Research Collection – Shall we play a game?
From a research point of view, games offer an amazing environment in which to develop new machine learning algorithms and techniques. And we hope, in due course, that those new algorithms will feed back not just into gaming, but into…
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft and partners aim to shrink the ‘data desert’ limiting accessible AI
AI-based tools like computer vision and voice interfaces have the potential to be life-changing for people with disabilities, but the truth is those AI models are usually built with very little data sourced from those people. Microsoft is working with…
In the news | The AI Blog
Shrinking the ‘data desert’: Inside efforts to make AI systems more inclusive of people with disabilities
Saqib Shaikh says people who are blind, like himself, typically develop highly organized routines to keep track of their things — putting keys, wallets, canes and other essentials in the same places each time. But sometimes life gets messy: A…