Sean Rintel
Senior Principal Research Manager
Projects
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The Social Devices work stream explores how to enable the devices we already have and already know how to use to act as companions in meetings. Features using this research have shipped in Microsoft Teams as Mobile Sharing and Companion…
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From March in 2020 Microsoft employees entered a prolonged period of mandatory working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We wondered what would happen to employees' effectiveness and collegiality as all meetings went remote. From April through August 2020…
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VROOM (Virtual Robot Overlay for Online Meetings) is a bi-directional asymmetric prototype system for exploring how to improve the social experience of robotic telepresence using VR and AR.
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Formative studies in distributed meeting behavior and technologies This is a collection of studies in distributed meeting behavior and technologies, covering virtual meetings, hybrid meetings, mobile robotic telepresence, and avatars. See Publications.