Always-Available Mobile Interfaces

2012

Control your laptop with a wave of your hand (opens in new tab)

CNN Money, 7 August 2012

Next Up in Kinect-Style Motion Sensing: Ultrasound? (opens in new tab)

Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2012

Microsoft Turns Jazz Hands Into Gesture Commands Using Sound Waves (opens in new tab)

IT World, 10 May 2012

Microsoft Research Projects Offer New Takes on Gesture Sensing (opens in new tab)

IDG News Service, 9 May 2012

Beyond Kinect: Gestural Computer Spells Keyboard Death (opens in new tab)

New Scientist, 9 May 2012

Gesture Sensing Alternatives Use Radio Interference, Doppler Effect (opens in new tab)

PC World, 9 May 2012

Laptop Uses Sound for Gesture Control (opens in new tab)

Discovery News, 9 May 2012

Cool Microsoft Research Takes Kinect To Another Level (opens in new tab)

PC Magazine, 7 May 2012

Gesture Control System Uses Sound Alone (opens in new tab)

Technology Review, 7 May 2012

Here’s Looking at You (but I’m Still Texting) (opens in new tab)

New York Times, 11 Feb 2012

Stealth Texting (opens in new tab)

Technology Review, 1 Jan 2012

10 Tech Research Projects to Watch (featuring PocketTouch) (opens in new tab)

PC World, 3 Jan 2012

2011

How to Make a Human Antenna (opens in new tab) (at ABC News (opens in new tab)) (at MSNBC (opens in new tab))

Discovery News, 12 May 2011

Turn your entire home into a game controller (opens in new tab)

New Scientist, 10 May 2011

Talking to the Wall (opens in new tab)

Technology Review, 3 May 2011

2010

Microsoft’s Skinput turns hands, arms into buttons (opens in new tab)

CNN, 19 April 2010

Skinput Makes the Entire Body a Touch Interface (opens in new tab)

PC World, 13 April 2010

Sensors turn skin into gadget control pad (opens in new tab)

BBC News, 26 March 2010

Body acoustics can turn your arm into a touchscreen (opens in new tab)

New Scientist, 1 March 2010

‘Skinput’ Turns Your Body Into Touchscreen Interface (opens in new tab)

TechNews, 3 March 2010

Skinput Turns Any Bodily Surface Into a Touch Interface (opens in new tab)

Popular Science (popsci.com), 3 March 2010

Skinput Turns Your Arm into a Touch-Screen (opens in new tab)

Wired, 3 March 2010

2009

Muscle-Based PC Interface Lets You Literally Point and Click, No Mouse Required (opens in new tab)

Popular Science (popsci.com), 29 October 2009

Muscle-Bound Computer Interface (opens in new tab)

MIT Technology Review, 28 October 2009

The Quest for a Better Keyboard (opens in new tab)

Forbes Magazine, September 2009

2008

High-tech Armband Puts your Fingers in Control (opens in new tab)

The New Scientist, 24 April 2008

People

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Scott Saponas

Senior Director

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Desney Tan

Corporate Vice President and Managing Director, Microsoft Research Redmond

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Gabe Cohn

Principal Researcher

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A.J. Brush

Partner Group Program Manager