Sensors and Devices

The Sensors and Devices Group works with technologies such as sensors, flexible electronics, novel displays, wireless communications, ubiquitous and mobile devices. We collaborate closely with researchers from other disciplines with the goal of understanding how advances in technology will impact traditional computing and the ways in which people use and interact with computing devices. 

Research Areas

Interactive Surfaces
We are working on a number of hardware technologies that detect user interaction with a variety of surfaces such as displays and tabletops.  

SenseCam
SenseCam is a wearable camera with a wide-angle lens that takes periodically photos without user intervention. This simple device turns out to have many valuable applications.

Low Power Wireless
We have several projects that explore different aspects of low power wireless communications, enabling a variety of always-connected application scenarios.

Other Projects and Previous Work
There are a number of exciting projects in Sensors and Devices that don’t fit into the broad areas listed above. See what else we are working on, and look at some of our previous projects.

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• The Sensors and Devices group is always looking for interns and Post-docs. In addition, we also host visiting researchers. For more information, visit Microsoft Research Careers.

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