Teachable AI Experiences (Tai X)
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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.
Research Focus: Week of April 29, 2024
In this edition: Can LLMs transform natural language into formal method postconditions; Semantically aligned question + code generation for automated insight generation; Explaining CLIP performance disparities on blind/low vision data; plus recent news.
Research at Microsoft 2023: A year of groundbreaking AI advances and discoveries
AI saw unparalleled growth in 2023, reaching millions daily. This progress owes much to the extensive work of Microsoft researchers and collaborators. In this review, learn about the advances in 2023, which set the stage for further progress in 2024.
Collaborators: Teachable AI with Cecily Morrison and Karolina Pakėnaitė
| Gretchen Huizinga, Cecily Morrison, and Karolina Pakėnaitė
Cecily Morrison and Karolina Pakėnaitė are collaborators on a research prototype designed to help members of the blind community find their personal items. Learn how the work is advancing an approach to empower people to shape their own AI experiences.
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.
CHI 2021: Redefining accessibility to build more inclusive technologies
Accessibility and inclusion represent a growing space in the technology landscape, and how research and development are being used to empower people across abilities is expanding in exciting ways. Instead of treating disabilities as conditions in need of solutions—as has…
Where’s my stuff? Developing AI with help from people who are blind or low vision to meet their needs
| Simone Stumpf, Cecily Morrison, Daniela Massiceti, Ed Cutrell, and Lida Theodorou
Microsoft AI for Accessibility is funding the ORBIT research project, which is enlisting the help of people who are blind or low vision to build a new dataset. People who are blind or low vision can contribute to the project…
Empowering people with AI with Dr. Cecily Morrison
| Cecily Morrison
Episode 60, January 23, 2019 – Dr. Morrison gives us an overview of what she calls the “pillars” of inclusive design, shares how her research is positively impacting people with health issues and disabilities, and tells us how having a…