Projects
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Our team of researchers has been investigating how online and offline social interactions of information workers affect their productivity and sense of well-being.
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The goal of the WEye program is to improve communication between pair programmers using shared gaze awareness.
In an effort to more substantively explore factors related to the wearability, convenience, contextual appropriateness, and social acceptability of on-body light therapy usage, we developed and evaluated six fashion-aligned wearable therapy prototypes leveraging light-emitting materials and lowprofile hardware.
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Understanding Techniques and Tools for More Effective Telemetry and Log Data Analysis. Increasingly, business processes require data-driven real-time feedback based on large quantities of log data and customer telemetry from multiple sources. The Logan Project takes a broad approach to…
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Stress is considered to be a modern day “global epidemic”; so given the widespread nature of this problem, it would be beneficial if solutions that help people to learn how to cope better with stress were scalable beyond what individual…
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This project has now been concluded, and the apps have been deprecated. Thank you for your feedback! At Microsoft Research, we want to let users play with new types of visualizations. We’re doing it with Apps for Office, a new feature for…
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BigDataUX explores what technologies will make it easier for users—for data scientists, business intelligence analysts, or anyone with a dataset—to clean, process, and interact with big datasets.
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SandDance is a web-based application that enables you to more easily explore, identify, and communicate insights about data, and provides ease of use for data visualizations, pattern identification, trends, and insights.
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Microsoft and Brown University have collaborated to create Debugger Canvas, a free Power Tool that adds Code Bubbles™ to Visual Studio for a new way to debug. Debugger Canvas has now been released publically on DevLabs! Please check out the…