HUE: Human Understanding and Empathy
Inventing new technologies that promote emotional resilience and well-being
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Research Focus: Week of July 29, 2024
In this issue: Skeleton Posterior-guided OpTimization (SPOT) exhibits potential in various causal discovery tasks; Using visual imagery for an EEG-based brain–computer interface; Developing human-centered AI systems to assist creative professionals.
Research Focus: Week of March 18, 2024
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities, yet they still struggle with…
Collaborators: Data-driven decision-making with Jina Suh and Shamsi Iqbal
| Gretchen Huizinga, Jina Suh, and Shamsi Iqbal
Researcher Jina Suh and manager Shamsi Iqbal are longtime collaborators. Learn how their history of working together and their unique perspectives are informing their development of tools to support decision-making for organizational leaders.
Research Focus: Week of June 19, 2023
In this issue: Our new Responsible AI Maturity Model; FoundWright helps “re-find” web pages; Trace-guided Inductive Synthesis of Recursive Functional Programs; a wait-free algorithm for weak reference counting; and new research on concurrency testing.
Highlights from CHI 2023
The ways in which people are able to interact with technologies can have a profound effect on a technology’s utility and adoptability. Building computing tools and services around people’s natural styles of work, communication, and play can give technology the…
In the news | The Atlantic
This Is What Happens When There Are Too Many Meetings
After two years of working from home, I don’t have one unified period of getting things done. I have several mini periods. Work isn’t a contiguous landmass of focus; it’s more like an archipelago of productivity amid a sea of…
Career Award | National Academy of Engineering
Mary Czerwinski elected to the National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 111 new members and 22 international members, including Mary Czerwinski, “For the application of psychological principles to the design and understanding of human computer interaction.” Election to National Academy of Engineering membership…
In the news | Microsoft Worklab
The Rise of the Triple Peak Day
If the pandemic has revealed anything about work life, it’s that work and life are melded like never before: morning staff meetings streamed from the breakfast table; in-person presentations before school pickup; and evenings of quiet concentration whenever the opportunity…
In the news | OnMSFT
Microsoft Teams could use AI to analyze people’s expressions during video meetings
The Microsoft Research Team has developed a new AI that will automatically analyze people’s expressions during video meetings (via Windows Central). Indeed, the Microsoft Teams bot reads the non-verbal cues of the meeting participants and dynamically spotlights the most expressive…