The Computer-Mediated Living Group, Microsoft Research Cambridge

摘要

How do you describe your lab to visitors? ? The Computer-Mediated Living group (or CML) is one of five main research groups at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. The lab itself is the European arm of Microsoft Research, located in the heart of Cambridge in a new building next to the main train station. CML is the most interdisciplinary group in the lab, and the one most concerned with the human-facing aspects of technology. The roots of the group began a decade ago with an agenda to design and fabricate new human experiences with computing. The technologies we are interested in can be situated in any aspect of everyday life, and play on many different kinds of human values, from increasing productivity in the workplace to respecting the tenderness of family life. As a part of Microsoft, we aim to build new technologies, map out new design spaces, and provide different ways of looking at human behavior from low-level interaction to the social and cultural ramifications of technology.