PR for Startups
On June 20th, I attended the Seattle Angel Conference Meetup "PR for Startups", a round table by Kevin Pedraja of VoxusPR and Bill Hankes, Founder & »
Wheelchair Design
I've talked a little bit about the hardware bits -- how we get the wheelchair to move at the computer's request. But what else is behind »
How do I get started with Eye Gaze?
I received an email the other day, paraphrasing: I was very intrigued by the attached file article in this morning's New York Times. I have a »
Making a Skype or Beam call using a synthesized voice
So you want to make a Skype call or Beam into a remote location and you're using your computer to generate your voice. You try it »
Eye Gaze Outdoors, Wear a Baseball Cap
This week at the Microsoft Ability Summit 2015, we held another hackathon to work on technology for people with disabilities. The team I worked on focused »
pALS in a Workshop
I was invited to the ALS Association / Prize4Life Assistive Technology Workshop last week to discuss the work the Microsoft Research Enable team is doing along with »
3rd generation wheelchair interface
Prelude: Seattle Hardware Workshop I recently attended Seattle Hardware Workshop and learned quite a bit. Thank you @marcbarros for considering our work here in Microsoft Research »
How: To drive a wheelchair with your eyes (Generation 2)
In my previous post, I covered how Microsoft found the motivation to help create technology for people living with ALS and how we started our first »
Why: To drive a wheelchair with your eyes
This summer, Microsoft hosted a company wide hackathon called //oneweek. This wasn't the first hackathon here at Microsoft -- I had already participated in three over »
iBeacon Warfare
Today I took my three and six year old daughters out to a local mall in Bellevue, WA to buy shoes, eat frozen yogurt, and scan »