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Sensors and Devices

The Sensors and Devices Group is part of the Computer-Mediated Living research area and works with technologies such as sensors, flexible electronics, novel displays, wireless communications, ubiquitous and mobile devices. We collaborate closely with researchers from other disciplines with the goal of understanding how advances in technology will impact traditional computing and the ways in which people use and interact with computing devices.

Research Areas

Interactive Surfaces
We are working on a number of hardware technologies that detect user interaction with a variety of surfaces such as displays and tabletops.

SenseCam
SenseCam is a wearable camera with a wide-angle lens that takes periodically photos without user intervention. This simple device turns out to have many valuable applications.

Low Power Wireless
We have several projects that explore different aspects of low power wireless communications, enabling a variety of always-connected application scenarios.

Other Projects and Previous Work
There are a number of exciting projects in Sensors and Devices that don’t fit into the broad areas listed above. See what else we are working on, and look at some of our previous projects.

People

 

Emma Berry
Clinical Neuropsychologist

Alex Butler

Senior Hardware Engineer

 

Steve Hodges
Principal Hardware Engineer

Shahram Izadi

Researcher 

Ksenia Korolija
Administrative Assistant 

Alban Rrustemi
Contract Engineer  

James Scott
Researcher

Darren West
Contract Engineer 

Nic Villar
Post-doc Researcher 

Affiliates

 

Adaptive Systems and
Interaction Group

 
 

VIBE Group

 
 

Computational Science

 
 

Georgina Browne
Clinical Neuropsychologist

 
 

Computer Vision Group

 
 

Narinder Kapur
Consultant Neuropsychologist 

 

Hardware Devices

 
 

Mike Molloy
Contract Engineer

 
 

Networking
Research Group

 
 

Gavin Smyth
Research Software Development Engineer  

  Socio-digital Systems Group    
 

Interns 2007-2008

  Yuvraj
Agarwal  
  Ignas
Budvytis  
Otmar
Hilliges 
  Mike
Massimi  
 

David
Molyneaux 

Tomasz
Naumowicz  
  Adin
Scannell 
       

Careers
  • The Sensors and Devices group is always looking for interns and Post-docs. In addition, we also host visiting researchers. For more information, visit Microsoft Research Careers.
Contact Us
  • Sensors and Devices
    Microsoft Research
    7 J J Thomson Ave
    Cambridge CB3 0FB, UK
    +44 1223 479700