Microsoft Research
Computational User Experiences

Overview

The Computational User Experiences (CUE) group creates technologies that augment our personal and professional digital lives to enhance individual and collaborative pursuits. We apply expertise in machine learning, visualization, mobile computing, sensors and devices, and quantitative and qualitative evaluation techniques to improve the state of the art in physiological computing, healthcare, home technologies, computer-assisted creativity, and entertainment.

 

People

A.J. Brush

A.J.
Brush

 
Amy Karlson

Amy
Karlson

 
Bongshin Lee

Bongshin
Lee

 
Dan Morris

Dan
Morris

 
Greg Smith

Greg
Smith

 
Desney Tan

Desney
Tan

 
Jonathan Lester

Jonathan
Lester

 
Kyungmin Min

Kyungmin
Min

 
T. Scott Saponas

T. Scott
Saponas

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

See our alumni page for previous CUE members.

Projects

Bionic Contact Lenses

Bionic Contact Lenses

Millions of people use contact lenses daily. We are incorporating technology directly into the structure of these contacts, which provides an unparalleled opportunity to build augmented reality displays and explore new interaction paradigms, as well as to perform continuous healthcare monitoring.

 
Muscle-Computer Interfaces

Muscle-Computer Interfaces

Muscle-computer interfaces directly sense and decode human muscular activity rather than relying on physical actuation or perceptible user actions. We believe that this is the first step towards tapping into the vast amount of information contained within the human physiology.

 
Brain-Computer Interfaces

Brain-Computer Interfaces

We are working on making brain sensing technologies accessible and useful to the mass consumer market. Our work in this area includes modeling cognitive state for interface evaluation and adaptive interfaces, and also using implicit cognitive processing to perform useful tasks such as image classification.

 
Songsmith

Songsmith

Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC’s microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Then share your songs with your friends and family, post your songs online, or create your own music videos. Songsmith evolved directly from a research collaboration between the CUE and Knowledge Tools groups at MSR.

 
Data-Driven Exploration of Musical Chord Sequences

Data-Driven Exploration of Musical Chord Sequences

We present data-driven methods for supporting musical creativity by capturing the statistics of a musical database. Specifically, we introduce a system that supports users in exploring the high-dimensional space of musical chord sequences by parameterizing the variation among chord sequences in popular music. We provide a novel user interface that exposes these learned parameters as control axes, and we propose two automatic approaches for defining these axes. One approach is based on a novel clustering procedure, the other on principal components analysis.

 
Dynamic Mapping of Physical Controls for Tabletop Groupware

Mapping Physical Controls for Tabletop Groupware

Multi-touch interactions are a promising means of control for interactive tabletops. However, a lack of precision and tactile feedback makes multi-touch controls a poor fit for tasks where precision and feedback are crucial. We present an approach that offers precise control and tactile feedback for tabletop systems through the integration of dynamically re-mappable physical controllers with the multi-touch environment, and we demonstrate this approach in our collaborative tabletop audio editing environment.

 
Social Computation

Collabio: Social Computation

Your friends have complex models of your history, opinions, personality, interests and expertise. This is the information that interactive applications need to perform tasks like personalization, expert matching, and friend finding. To draw out this latent information for interactive applications, we propose an approach that fuses human computation with online social networks.

 
Interactive Machine Learning

Interactive Machine Learning

We are exploring the dynamic interaction of human users with machine learning systems. Examples include CueTIP, a mixed-initiative interface for correcting handwriting recognition errors, and CueFlik, a system that interactively reranks image search results based on visual properties of examples provided.

 
EnsembleMatrix

EnsembleMatrix

EnsembleMatrix is an interactive visualization system that presents a graphical view of confusion matrices to help users understand relative merits of various classifiers. It allows users to directly interact with the visualizations in order to explore and build combination models.

 
iSee

iSee: Interactive Scenario Explorer for Entertainment

iSee is a system of interactive visualizations that allows players to project potential outcomes as well as explore future scenarios. This makes online tournament-style fantasy games vastly more compelling (socially and cognitively).

 
FacetLens

Faceted Browsing for Scalable Information Exploration

We are working on novel user interfaces that present faceted metadata to make searching and browsing data simpler and more informative. We’re particularly interested in an approach that works over a large range of display sizes, with a diverse collection of data domains, over many different sizes of dataset.

 
Phrase Builder

Phrase Builder

Phrase Builder is an RTQE interface that reduces keystrokes by facilitating the selection of individual query words and by leveraging back-off query techniques to offer completions for out-of-index queries.

 
Search Vox

Search Vox

Search Vox is a mobile search interface that not only facilitates touch and text refinement whenever speech fails, but also allows users to assist the recognizer via text hints. Search Vox can also take advantage of any partial knowledge users may have about the business listing by letting them express their uncertainty in an intuitive way using verbal wildcards.

 
Multi-touch (Graph) Manipulation on Surface

Multi-touch (Graph) Manipulation on Surface

The design of natural and intuitive gestures is a difficult problem as we do not know how users will approach a new multi-touch interface and which gestures they will attempt to use. We study whether familiarity with other environments influences how users approach interaction with a multi-touch surface computer especially for the graph manipulation and understanding.

 
Bioinformatics Visualization

Bioinformatics Visualization

We are building visual interfaces for the domain of biology. Examples include PhyloDet, a Scalable Visualization Tool for Mapping Multiple Traits to Large Evolutionary Trees, GeneShelf, a web-based visual interface for spinal cord injury study, and GOTreePlus, an interactive Gene Ontology visualization for Proteomics projects.

 

See our archived projects page for information about older CUE projects.

Publications

2009

Enhancing Input On and Above the Interactive Surface with Muscle Sensing

Hrvoje Benko, Scott Saponas, Dan Morris, Desney Tan

Proceedings of ACM Tabletop 2009, November 2009

Enabling Always-Available Input with Muscle-Computer Interfaces

Scott Saponas, Desney Tan, Dan Morris, Ravin Balakrishnan, Jim Tuner, James Landay

Proceedings of ACM UIST 2009, October 2009

Optically Sensing Tongue Gestures for Computer Input

Scott Saponas, Daniel Kelly, Desney Tan, Babak Parviz

Proceedings of ACM UIST 2009, October 2009

Collabio: A Game for Annotating People within Social Networks

Michael Bernstein, Desney Tan, Greg Smith, Mary Czerwinski, Eric Horvitz

Proceedings of ACM UIST 2009, October 2009

Overview-Based Example Selection in Mixed-Initiative Interactive Concept Learning

Saleema Amershi, James Fogarty, Ashish Kapoor, Desney Tan

Proceedings of ACM UIST 2009, October 2009

Relationships Between Lyrics and Melody in Popular Music

Eric Nichols, Dan Morris, Sumit Basu, Chris Raphael

Proceedings ISMIR 2009, October 2009

GeneShelf: A Web-based Visual Interface for Large Gene Expression Time-Series Data Repositories

Bohyoung Kim, Bongshin Lee, Susan Knoblach, Eric Hoffman, Jinwook Seo

IEEE TVCG (InfoVis 2009), Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 905-912

A Comparison of User-Generated and Automatic Graph Layouts

Tim Dwyer, Bongshin Lee, Danyel Fisher, Kori Inkpen Quinn, Petra Isenberg, George Robertson, Chris North

IEEE TVCG (InfoVis 2009), Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 961-968

PhyloDet: A Scalable Visualization Tool for Mapping Multiple Traits to Large Evolutionary Trees

Bongshin Lee, Lev Nachmanson, George Robertson, Jonathan M. Carlson, David Heckerman

Bioinformatics, Vol. 25, No. 19, pp. 2611-2612

Designing Phrase Builder: A Mobile Real-Time Query Expansion Interface

Tim Paek, Bongshin Lee, Bo Thiesson

Proceedings of MobileHCI 2009

Investigating the Use of Voice and Ink for Mobile Micronote Capture

Adrienne Andrew, Amy K. Karlson, and A.J. Bernheim Brush

Proceedings of Interact 2009

Understanding Multi-touch Manipulation for Surface Computing

Chris North, Tim Dwyer, Bongshin Lee, Danyel Fisher, Petra Isenberg, George Robertson, Kori Inkpen

Proceedings of Interact 2009

Designing Novel Image Search Interfaces by Understanding Unique Characteristics and Usage

Paul Andre, Edward Cutrell, Desney Tan, Greg Smith

Proceedings of Interact 2009

Revealing Uncertainty for Information Visualization

Meredith Skeels, Bongshin Lee, Greg Smith, George Robertson

To appear in Information Visualization

It's no secret: Measuring the security and reliability of authentication via 'secret' questions

Stuart Schechter, A. J. Bernheim Brush, and Serge Egelman

2009 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Toward Technologies that Support Family Reflections on Health

Andrea Grimes, Desney Tan, Dan Morris

Proceedings of ACM Group 2009

It’s Not Easy Being Green: Understanding Home Computer Power Management

Marshini Chetty, A.J. Bernheim Brush, Brian R. Meyers, Paul Johns

Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009, pp. 1033-1042

Can I Borrow Your Phone? Understanding Concerns When Sharing Mobile Phones

Amy Karlson, A.J. Bernheim Brush, Stuart Schechter

Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009, pp. 1647-1650

Exploring Awareness Needs and Information Display Preferences Between Coworkers

A.J. Bernheim Brush, Brian R. Meyers, James Scott, Gina Venolia

Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009, pp. 2091-2094

FacetLens: Exposing Trends and Relationships to Support Sensemaking within Faceted Datasets

Bongshin Lee, Greg Smith, George G Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Desney S Tan

Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009, pp. 1293-1302

EnsembleMatrix: Interactive Visualization to Support Machine Learning with Multiple Classifiers

Justin Talbot, Bongshin Lee, Ashish Kapoor, Desney S Tan

Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009, pp. 1283-1292

Dynamic Mapping of Physical Controls for Tabletop Groupware

Rebecca Fiebrink, Dan Morris, Meredith Morris

Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009, pp. 471-480

Investigating Web Search Strategies and Forum Use to Support Diet and Weight Loss

mc shraefel, Ryen White, Paul Andre, Desney S Tan

Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009, pp. 3829-3834

"The Calendar is Crucial": Coordination and Awareness through the Family Calendar

Carman Neustaedter, A.J. Bernheim Brush, and Saul Greenberg

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol 16, Issue 1, April 2009, Article 6

Data-Driven Exploration of Musical Chord Sequences

Eric Nichols, Dan Morris, Sumit Basu

Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2009, pp. 227-236.

Exploring communication and sharing between extended families

Kimberly Tee, A.J. Brush, Kori Inkpen

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 128-138, Elsevier

2008

SPARCS: Exploring Sharing Suggestions to Enhance Family Connectedness

A.J. Bernheim Brush, Kori M. Inkpen, Kimberly Tee

Proceedings of ACM CSCW 2008, November 2008

Family Accounts: A new paradigm for user accounts within the home environment

Serge Egelman, A.J. Brush, Kori Inkpen

Proceedings of ACM CSCW 2008, November 2008

Search Vox: Leveraging Multimodal Refinement and Partial Knowledge for Mobile Voice Search

Tim Paek, Bo Thiesson, Y.C. Ju, Bongshin Lee

ACM UIST 2008, pp.141-150

Effectiveness of Animation in Trend Visualization

George Robertson, Roland Fernandez, Danyel Fisher, Bongshin Lee, John Stasko

IEEE TVCG (InfoVis 2008), Vol. 14, No. 6, pp.1325-1332

Complementary Computing for Visual Tasks: Meshing Computer Vision with Human Visual Processing

Ashish Kapoor, Desney S Tan, Pradeep Shenoy, Eric Horvitz

IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2008

Combining Brain Computer Interfaces with Vision for Object Categorization

Ashish Kapoor, Pradeep Shenoy, Desney S Tan

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2008

Exposing Parameters of a Trained Dynamic Model for Interactive Music Creation

Dan Morris, Ian Simon, Sumit Basu

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2008

GOTreePlus: An Interactive Gene Ontology Browser

Bongshin Lee, Kristy Brown, Yetrib Hathout, Jinwook Seo

Bioinformatics, Vol. 24, No. 7, 2008, pp.1026-1028

Revealing Uncertainty for Information Visualization

Meredith Skeels, Bongshin Lee, Greg Smith, George Robertson

Advanced Visual Interfaces 2008, pp.376-379

TapGlance: Designing a Unified Smartphone Interface

Daniel C. Robbins, Bongshin Lee, Roland Fernandez

Designing Interactive Systems 2008, pp.386-394

Demonstrating the Feasibility of Using Forearm Electromyography for Muscle-Computer Interfaces

T Scott Saponas, Desney S Tan, Dan Morris, Ravin Balakrishnan

CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Feasibility and Pragmatics of Classifying Working Memory Load with an Electroencephalograph

David Grimes, Desney S Tan, Scott Hudson, Pradeep Shenoy, Rajesh Rao

CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Human-Aided Computing: Utilizing Implicit Human Processing to Classify Images

Pradeep Shenoy, Desney S Tan

CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

CueFlik: Interactive Concept Learning in Image Search

James Fogarty, Desney S Tan, Ashish Kapoor, Simon Winder

CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

IMPROMPTU: A New Interaction Framework for Supporting Collaboration in Multiple Display Environments and its Field Evaluation for CO-located Software Development

Jacob Biehl, William Baker, Brain Bailey, Desney S Tan, Kori Inkpen, Mary Czerwinski

CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

SuperBreak: Using Interactivity to Enhance Ergonomic Typing Breaks

Dan Morris, A.J. Brush, Brian Meyers

CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

SearchBar: A Search-Centric Web History for Task Resumption and Information Re-finding

Dan Morris, Meredith Ringel Morris, Gina Venolia

CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

MySong: Automatic Accompaniment Generation for Vocal Melodies

Ian Simon, Dan Morris, Sumit Basu

CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Predictability and Accuracy in Adaptive User Interfaces

Krzysztof Gajos, Katherine Everitt, Desney S Tan, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel Weld

Extended Abstracts of CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Brain-Computer Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction and Games

Anton Nijholt, Desney S Tan, Brendan Allison, Jose del R Millan, Bernhard Graimann, Melody Moore Jackson

Workshop at CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

2007

Yours, Mine and Ours? Sharing and Use of Technology in Domestic Environments

A.J. Brush, Kori Inkpen

Ubicomp 2007, September 2007

CandidTree: Visualizing Structural Uncertainty in Similar Hierarchies

Bongshin Lee, George G. Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Cynthia Sims Parr

Information Visualization, Vol. 6, 2007, pp.233-246

AdaptiviTree: Adaptive Tree Visualization for Tournament-Style Brackets

Desney S Tan, Greg Smith, Bongshin Lee, George G. Robertson

IEEE InfoVis 2007, pp.1113-1120

Visualizing Set Concordance with Permutation Matrices and Fan Diagrams

Bohyoung Kim, Bongshin Lee, Jinwook Seo

Interacting with Computers, Vol. 19, Issues 5-6, 2007, pp.630-643

Drawing Graphs with GLEE

Lev Nachmanson, George Robertson, Bongshin Lee

Graph Drawing 2007, pp.389-394

EcoLens: Integration and interactive visualization of ecological datasets

Cynthia Sims Parr, Bongshin Lee, Benjamin B. Bederson

Ecological Informatics, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2007, pp.61-69

NetLens: Iterative Exploration of Content-Actor Network Data

Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Bongshin Lee, Benjamin B. Bederson

Information Visualization, Vol. 6, 2007, pp.18-31

Supporting Human Memory with a Personal Digital Lifetime Store

Desney S Tan, Mary Czerwinski, Gordon Bell, Emma Berry, Jim Gemmell, Steve Hodges, Narinder Kapur, Brian Meyers, Nuria Oliver, George Robertson, Ken Wood

Personal Information Management: Challenges and Opportunities (eds. William Jones and Jaime Teevan), University of Washington Press, 2007

Investigating the Querying and Browsing Behavior of Advanced Search Engine Users

Ryen White, Dan Morris

Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference 2007

Instrumenting the Dynamic Web

Andy Edmonds, Ryen White, Dan Morris, Steven Drucker

Journal of Web Engineering (JWE), Vol. 6, No. 3 (2007), 243-260.

New Frontiers in Desktop Task Management

George Robertson, Greg Smith, Patrick Baudisch, Mary Czerwinski, Eric Horvitz, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, Desney S Tan

Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments (eds. Victor Kaptelinn and Mary Czerwinski), MIT Press, 2007

FASTDash: A visual dashboard for fostering awareness in software teams

Jacob Biehl, Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith, George Robertson, Brian Bailey

CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Using Job-Shop Scheduling Tasks for Evaluating Collocated Communication

Desney S Tan, Darren Gergle, Regan Mandryk, Kori Inkpen, Melanie Kellar, Kirstie Hawkey, Mary Czerwinski

Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Special Issue on User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Services for Human-Human Communication and Collaboration), 2007

InkSeine: In Situ Search for Active Note Taking

Ken Hinckley, Shen Zhao, Raman Sarin, Patrick Baudisch, Ed Cutrell, Michael Shilman, Desney S Tan

CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 251-260

An Evaluation of Extended Validation and Picture-in-Picture Phishing Attacks

Collin Jackson, Dan Simon, Desney S Tan, Adam Barth

Usable Security 2007

Understanding Memory Triggers for Task Tracking

AJ Brush, Brian Meyers, Desney S Tan, Mary Czerwinski

Extended Abstracts at CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 947-950.

Health-OS: A Position Paper

Darko Kirovski, Nuria Oliver, Mike Sinclair, Desney S Tan

Poster at the 1st International Workshop on Systems and Networking Support for Healthcare and Assisted Living Environments (HealthNet07)

Playing with your Brain: Brain-Computer Interfaces and Games

Anton Nijholt, Desney S Tan

Organizing paper for Brainplay Workshop at Advances in Computer Entertainment 2007

2006

FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization

Greg Smith, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, George Robertson, Desney S Tan

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(5), pp. 797-804, 2006

An Exploration of User Interface Designs for Real-time Panoramic Photography

Patrick Baudisch, Desney S Tan, Drew Steedly, Eric Rudolph, Matt Uyttendaele, Chris Pal, Richard Szeliski

Australian Journal of Information Systems, 13(2), pp. 151-166, 2006

Large Displays Enhance Optical Flow Cues and Narrow the Gender Gap in 3D Virtual Navigation

Desney S Tan, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson

Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 48(2), pp.318-333, 2006

Physically Large Displays Improve Performance on Spatial Tasks

Desney S Tan, Darren Gergle, Peter Scupelli, Randy Pausch

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 13(1), pp. 71-99, 2006

Using a Low-Cost Electroencephalograph for Task Classification in HCI Research

Johnny C Lee, Desney S Tan

19th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 81-90, 2006

CueTIP: A mixed-Initiative Interface for Correcting Handwriting Errors

Michael Shilman, Desney S Tan, Patrice Simard

19th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 323-332, 2006

FaThumb: A facet-based interface for mobile search

Amy Karlson, George Robertson, Daniel Robbins, Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith

CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

SWISH:Semantic Analysis of Window Titles and Switching History

Nuria Oliver, Greg Smith, Chintan Thakkar, Arun Surendran

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2006)

Phosphor: Explaining Transitions in the User Interface using Afterglow Effects

Patrick Baudisch, Desney S Tan, Maxime Collomb, Dan Robbins, Ken Hinckley, Maneesh Agrawala, Shengdong Zhao, Gonzalo Ramos

19th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 169-178, 2006

Tumble! Splat! Helping Users Access and Manipulate Occluded Content in 2D Drawings

Gonzalo Ramos, George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Desney S Tan, Patrick Baudisch, Ken Hinckley, Maneesh Agrawala, Daniel Robbins

Advanced Visual Interfaces 2006, pp. 428-435

Exploring the Design Space for Adaptive Graphical User Interfaces

Krzysztof Gajos, Mary Czerwinski, Desney S Tan, Daniel Weld

Advanced Visual Interfaces 2006, pp. 201-208

Clipping Lists and Change Borders: Improving Multitasking Efficiency with Peripheral Information Design

Tara Matthews, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, Desney S Tan

CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 989-998

Large Display Research Overview

Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, Brian Meyers, Greg Smith, Daniel Robbins, Desney S Tan

Extended Abstracts at CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 69-74, 2006

Before 2006

Large Display User Experience

George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Patrick Baudisch, Brian Meyers, Dan Robbins, Greg Smith, Desney S Tan

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 25(4), pp. 44-51, 2005

Panoramic Viewfinder: Providing a Real-time Preview to Help Users Avoid Flaws in Panoramic Pictures

Patrick Baudisch, Desney S Tan, Drew Steedly, Eric Rudolph, Matt Uyttendaele, Chris Pal, Richard Szeliski

OZCHI 2005 Conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of the Human Factors Society of Australia

Understanding Research Trends in Conferences using PaperLens

Bongshin Lee, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, Benjamin B Bederson

Extended Abstracts of CHI, pp. 1969-1972, 2005

Understanding Eight Years of InfoVis Conferences using PaperLens

Bongshin Lee, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, Benjamin B Bederson

Posters Compendium of InfoVis, pp. 53-54, 2004

Fishnet, a Fisheye Web Browser with Search Term Popouts: a Comparative Evaluation with Overview and Linear View

Patrick Baudisch, Bongshin Lee, Libby Hanna

Advanced Visual Interfaces 2004, pp. 133-140

Display space usage and window management operation comparisons between single monitor and multiple monitor users

Dugald Hutchings, Greg Smith, Brian Meyers, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson

Advanced Visual Interfaces 2004, pp. 32-39

Scalable Fabric: Flexible task management

George Robertson, Eric Horvitz, Mary Czerwinski, Dugald Hutchings, Patrick Baudisch, Daniel Robbins, Greg Smith

Advanced Visual Interfaces 2004, pp. 85-89

GroupBar: The TaskBar Evolved

Greg Smith, Patrick Baudisch, George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Brian Meyers, Daniel Robbins, Donna Andrews

(2003) OZCHI 2003 Conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of the Human Factors Society of Australia

Toward characterizing the productivity benefits of very large displays

Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith, Tim Regan, Brian Meyers, George Robertson, Gary Starkweather

(2003) Interact 2003

Press

Muscle-Based PC Interface Lets You Literally Point and Click, No Mouse Required

Popular Science (popsci.com), 29 October 2009

Muscle-Bound Computer Interface

MIT Technology Review, 28 October 2009

The Revolutionaries: Radical Thinkers and their World-Changing Ideas - Desney Tan

Forbes, 22 September 2009

Technology Shows What's on a Customer's Mind

Financial Times, 16 September 2009

The Quest for a Better Keyboard

Forbes Magazine, September 2009

Top Ten Amazing Research Projects (featuring Microsoft Research Songsmith)

PC Authority, June 2009

Password reminders: hard to remember, but easy to hack

Ars Technica, 19 May 2009

Study: Secret Questions Don't Safeguard Passwords

PC World Business Center, 19 May 2009

Are Your "Secret Questions" Too Easily Answered?

Technology Review, 18 May 2009

The Songsmith Flap

EQ Magazine, April 2009

A Review of Microsoft Research Songsmith

Sound on Sound, April 2009

Inside These Lenses, a Digital Dimension

The New York Times, 25 April 2009

Microsoft tests custom hardware controls on Surface-style device

Techflash, April 2009

Mixing Real and Virtual Controls

Technology Review, April 2009

A Look at Microsoft Songsmith

Ars Technica, January 2009

Microsoft Songsmith Backs Up Your Vocals

PC Magazine, January 2009

Microsoft's Songsmith Gives Singers an Algorithmic Band

TechFlash, January 2009

Microsoft's Songsmith Makes Music Using PC

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 2009

Microsoft Releases Songsmith: Karaoke in Reverse

CNET, January 2009

Make Beautiful Music With MySong

Computer Power User, September 2008

The Interface: Gestures will Force the Mouse into Retirement

Financial Times, 16 September 2008

Microsoft Research: How We Watch the Computer and How it Watches Us

Channel 10: HealthBlog, 18 August 2008

Collabio Game Explores Social-Network Data Mining... And Social Psychology

Microsoft Research News & Highlights, August 2008

Microsoft Research: How we watch the computer, how it watches us

Bill Crounse's HealthBlog, August 2008

My Awesome IT Job: Researcher and Manager, Microsoft

ZDNet, 25 July 2008

An Algorithm to Turn Melodies Into Songs

IEEE Spectrum, July 2008

Upgrading Humans

Discovery Channel, 16 June 2008

High-tech Armband Puts your Fingers in Control

The New Scientist, 24 April 2008

Microsoft creates 'instant backing band' for singers

The New Scientist, April 2008

Giving Back to the Machines

digit, 22 January 2007

Microsoft's Investigation into the Subconscious

MarketWatch from DowJones, 18 January 2008

The Year in Hardware

MIT Technology Review, 26 December 2007

I Spy with my AI, Something Beginning with T(hought)!

Information Technology Magazine, 1 October 2007

Work on Paralysis Shows Just How Hard it is to Read Minds

Wall Street Journal, 26 September 2007

Teaching Computers to Read Minds

MIT Technology Review, 15 August 2007

Human-Aided Computing: Microsoft Researchers are Trying to Harness Untapped Brain Power

MIT Technology Review, 22 June 2007

Computer Will Try to Adjust to Your Moods: This is your Brain Plugged In

Puget Sound Business Journal, 19 May 2006

Software Notebook: Helping Users Peer into the Minds of Users

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 13 March 2006