Ability
Empowering people with long-term, temporary, or situational disabilities
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뉴스에서 | The AI Blog
Shrinking the ‘data desert’: Inside efforts to make AI systems more inclusive of people with disabilities
Saqib Shaikh says people who are blind, like himself, typically develop highly organized routines to keep track of their things — putting keys, wallets, canes and other essentials in the same places each time. But sometimes life gets messy: A…
뉴스에서 | PR Newswire
Team Gleason Partners With Microsoft on Eye Gaze Data Collection
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Team Gleason is excited to announce Project Insight, the creation of an open dataset of facial imagery of people living with ALS, to help advance innovation in computer vision and broaden the input…
A. F. Siu (MSR & Stanford), M. Sinclair, R. Kovacs, C. Holz, E. Ofek, and E. Cutrell. Virtual Reality Without Vision: A Haptic and Auditory White Cane to Navigate Complex Virtual Worlds. CHI 2020
Research Collection: Research Supporting Responsible AI
Microsoft is committed to the advancement and use of AI grounded in principles that put people first and benefit society. We are putting these principles into practice throughout the company by embracing diverse perspectives, fostering continuous learning, and proactively responding…
어워드 | Virtual reality without vision: A haptic and auditory white cane to navigate complex virtual worlds
Best Paper: Honorable mention, CHI 2020
Alt text that informs: Meeting the needs of people who are blind or low vision
| Meredith Ringel Morris
Image descriptions are vital to making digital content fully accessible to people who are blind or have low vision. However, as past research has shown, content authors often leave out these descriptions—also known as “alternative text” or “alt text”—for images…
뉴스에서 | MSPoweruser
Microsoft Research shows off their novel VR cane controller again
Microsoft Research has released another video of their previously demonstrated haptics-enabled cane which allows blind people to navigate VR.
Inclusive design for all, or ICT4D and 4U! with Dr. Ed Cutrell
Dr. Ed Cutrell is a Principal Researcher in the Ability group at Microsoft Research and he’s convinced that great technology should be available to everyone. Working in the fields of Accessibility and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (aka ICT4D),…
CHI squared with Dr. Ken Hinckley and Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris
Episode 74, May 1, 2019 – If you want to know what’s going on in the world of human computer interaction research, or what’s new at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, you should hang out with…