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Microsoft’s Cecily Morrison awarded MBE for services to inclusive design
Cecily Morrison, a principal researcher at Microsoft’s Research Lab in Cambridge, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The 39-year-old, who is currently working on a project that uses technology to help people with low vision understand who’s around them, has been recognised…
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…
Empowering people with AI with Dr. Cecily Morrison
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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…
Dans l’actualité | edugeek
Code Jumper Aims to Jumpstart Computer Science Interest for Kids Who Are Blind
Microsoft announced plans to transfer the research and technology behind Code Jumper, a physical programming language that is designed to be inclusive of children who are blind or low vision, to the American Printing House for the Blind.
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Innovation Stories
With Code Jumper, experts look to jumpstart computer science interest for kids who are blind
WORCESTER, United Kingdom — It’s a warm day in early June and a group of students have gathered in the IT classroom at New College Worcester to show off their coding skills. But instead of poking at tablet screens or…
Dans l’actualité | The AI Blog
With Project Torino, Microsoft creates a physical programming language inclusive of visually impaired children
A team of Microsoft researchers and designers in the company’s Cambridge, UK, lab has created what they are calling a physical programming language—a way for kids to physically create code by connecting pods together to build programs.