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Microsoft at CHI 2024: Innovations in human-centered design
From immersive virtual experiences to interactive design tools, Microsoft Research is at the frontier of exploring how people engage with technology. Discover our latest breakthroughs in human-computer interaction research at CHI 2024.
Microsoft Research collaborates with KAIST in Korea to explore bimanual interactions with haptic feedback in virtual reality
| Michel Pahud, Mike Sinclair, and Andrea Bianchi
Editor's Note: Bimanual controllers are frequently used to enhance the realism and immersion of virtual reality experiences such as games and simulations. Researchers have typically relied on mechanical linkages between the controllers to recreate the sensation of holding different objects…
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Researchers bring Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel into VR
If your dreams occasionally involve spreadsheets that extend endlessly in all directions, good news: Researchers have developed a virtual reality spreadsheet interface that could expand Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel files from flat screens into 3D spaces. Rather than being…
ReconViguRation: Reconfiguring Physical Keyboards in Virtual Reality. D. Schneider(1), A. Otte(1), T. Gesslein(1), P. Gagel(1), B. Kuth(1), M. S. Damlakhi(1), O. Dietz(1), E. Ofek, M. Pahud, P. O. Kristensson(3), J. Muller(4) and J. Grubert(1) (1) Cuborg University, (2)…
Awards | ReconViguRation: Reconfiguring Physical Keyboards in Virtual Reality
Best Paper, ISMAR 2019 and IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Typing in the Virtual Office Environment: Examining the Effects of Keyboard and Hand Representation in VR
| Eyal Ofek and Michel Pahud
Much of the hype around Virtual Reality, or VR, has focused on immersive gaming and entertainment, but the technology also has profound implications for enhancing the way we work. Imagine the perfect office environment: multiple large displays, proper lighting, free…