Fuse Labs

12/13/2016

Enroll in the Calendar.help preview and let Cortana schedule your meetings https://blogs.office.com/2016/12/13/enroll-in-the-calendar-help-preview-and-let-cortana-schedule-your-meetings/

05/18/2016

Kik support added to Bot Framework today :-)
http://blog.botframework.com/2016/05/18/kik_update/

05/11/2016

This week at we are presenting two research projects, a qualitative study and a system design, that highlight how the design of online communities can support creative expression and personal connections that otherwise wouldn’t have existed.

The first project, titled Journeys & Notes, focuses on the design and deployment of a production-quality mobile app that enables people to log their travels, leave notes behind, and build a community around spaces in between destinations (think of it as a Foursquare for trips). The app is playful, supports creative expression, and allows people to do this anonymously and pseudonymously. The project grew out of Justin Cranshaw’s internship project (who is now a full time member of our lab), in collaboration with designer S.A. Needham and myself. Justin is presenting the work on Wed May 11 at 4:30pm in room 210AE.
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=265171

The second project, Surviving an “Eternal September,” is a qualitative study of the NoSleep subreddit, an online community of horror fiction writers, was able to manage accelerated growth after being featured on the home page of Reddit. Usenet’s infamous “Eternal September” suggest that large influxes of newcomers can hurt online communities, but our interviews suggest that NoSleep survived without major incident because of three traits of this community: (1) administrators, (2) shared community moderation, and (3) technological infrastructure for preventing norm violations. This research was done in collaboration with Charles Kiene, a UW undergraduate student, and his advisor Benjamin Mako Hill at the UW Department of Communication. Charles presents the work on Mon May 9 at 4:30 pm in room LL20A.
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=260882

Designing & Studying Social Computing Systems―FUSE research at This week at CHI our lab is presenting two research projects that highlight how the design of online communities can support...

05/01/2016

Microsoft Bot Framework adds support for Facebook Messenger, among other channels

Bots, bots, bots everywhere, or so Microsoft hopes.

04/30/2016

The Future Of Conversational Interfaces

Lili Cheng, who has spent 20 years building human interfaces at Microsoft, says risk is part of her job.

03/31/2016

Read more about the Microsoft Bot Framework http://blog.fuselabs.org/post/141967933036/microsoft-bot-framework available at botframework.com

03/01/2016

This week, three of our collaborators will be presenting some of our recent work at the conference on Computer-supported Collaborative Work and Social Computing in San Francisco. This research explores several angles on crowd research, from how to engage crowds in collective action, to how to design crowd-powered applications, to how people learn computational thinking by reusing crowd-produced programs.

Crowds, bots, and remixing: FUSE’s research at CSCW This week, three of our collaborators will be presenting some of our recent work at the conference on Computer-supported Collaborative Work and...

07/28/2015

Making laugh @ the Hackathon

07/28/2015

Hackathon!!

07/01/2015

Latest Microsoft Garage releases break new ground for do-it-yourselfers, note takers and more Athima ChansanchaiMicrosoft News Center StaffPosted June 30, 2015June 30, 2015 By Microsoft News Center Dan Marshall may be a software programmer in his day job, but he also likes using technology to make t…

07/01/2015

Learn more about our new summer interns and their projects: http://blog.fuselabs.org/post/122895363211/welcoming-fuse-labs-2015-interns

Welcoming FUSE Lab’s 2015 interns We are really excited to have a group of five talented graduate students working with us this summer: Alex, Ali, Ming, Rajan, and Xin. We looked to bring people...