Enthusiasm for using human-centered design persists among HCI and HCI4D researchers and practitioners; funding agencies continue to support efforts to use this design strategy in development projects. However, few—if any—of these projects reach their potential.…
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities,…
As avatar use expands in digital spaces, advances are required to better represent all people. Discover how research into the varying perceptions of facial animation glitches in low versus high realism scenarios supports this goal.