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Mary P Czerwinski

George G Robertson

Daniel Chaim Robbins

Brian R Meyers

Desney S Tan

Gregory Ray Smith

Kenneth Paul Hinckley

Raymond Edward Ozzie

Anoop Gupta

Maarten Roderik Van Dantzich

Patrick Markus Baudisch

Pavel Curtis

Richard J McAniff

Kirsten C Risden

Asta Jane Roseway

Paul J Hough

Eric J Horvitz

Roland Lucas Fernandez

Roger Shane Barga

Amy Kathleen Karlson

Bruce Alan Johnson

Greg R Smith

Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer

Susan Theresa Dumais

Nuria M Oliver

Steven William Macbeth

Dragos A Manolescu

Rebecca Ann Norlander

Kim Cameron

Danyel Aharon Fisher

Gina Danielle Venolia

F David Jones

Robert Anthony DeLine

John Edward Churchill

Aaron C Hoff

Prasad Sripathi Panditharadhya

Matthew Jason Pope

Susan E Dziadosz

Javier Hernandez Rivera

Gonzalo A Ramos

Pedram Keyani

Jacob T Biehl

Chris O'Dowd

Michele A Williams

Felecia A Davis

Erin A Carroll

Diana L Maclean

Alexander G Gounares

Steven Mark Drucker

David E Gardner

Oscar E Murillo

Meredith June Morris

Maneesh Agrawala

Lili Cheng

Philip Andrew Chou

Albert Gordon Greenberg

Jason Garms

Bongshin Lee

Matthew Bret MacLaurin

Gonzalo Alberto Ramos

Brett David Brewer

Milind V Mahajan

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Melissa Wood Dunn

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Owen Charles Braun

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Ran Gilad-Bachrach

Lee Dicks Clark

Sogol Malekzadeh

Daniel J McDuff

Kori Inkpen Quinn

Udaya Kumar Bhaskara

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Kori Marie Quinn

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Kael R Rowan

Heather E Warncke

Xiaoyu Wang

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Jayaram Nm Nanduri

Tim Regan

Byungki Byun

David D Thiel

Dugald R Hutchings

Simon Christer Muzio

John Oberon

Deborah Harrison

Dave Maltz

Elin R Pedersen

Uday Bhaskara

Catherine Lynn Maritan

David Manci Gardner

George R Robertson

Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for. A method can include obtaining a normalizing autoencoder, the normalizing autoencoder trained based on first data samples of a template person and second data samples of a variety of people, normalizing, by the normalizing autoencoder, an input data sample by combining dynamic characteristics of a person in the input data sample with static characteristics in the first data samples, to generate normalized data, and providing the normalized data as input to a classifier model to classify the input data based on the dynamic characteristics of the input data and the static characteristics of the first data samples.

Human characteristic normalization with an autoencoder

The present disclosure relate to highlighting audience members with reactions to a presenter of an online meeting. Unlike physical, fact-to-face meeting that enables spontaneous interactions among the presenter and the audiences that are collocated with the presenter, presenting materials during an online meeting raises an issue of the present not being able to see real-time reactions or feedback by the audience members. The present disclosure addresses the issue by dynamically determining one or more audience members who indicate reactions during the online meeting or presentation and displaying faces of the one or more audience members under spotlight to the presenter. The presenter sees faces of the audience members with reactions during the online presentation and responds to the audience members and keep the audience engaged. The spotlight audience server analyzes video frames and determines types of reactions of the audience members.

Highlighting expressive participants in an online meeting

A wearable device conveys information to a user. The device includes a master soft circuit cell and a plurality of actuation soft circuit cells. These cells are physically interconnected to form a garment that is worn by a user and each of these cells includes an electrically non-conductive fabric covering. Each of the actuation cells is electrically connected to and operates under the control of the master cell. The master cell is configured to wirelessly receive actuation instructions and activate a combination of the actuation cells based on the received actuation instructions. Each of the actuation cells is configured to generate a particular actuation that is perceived by one or more senses of the user whenever the actuation cell is activated by the master cell. A system also conveys affective state information to a user.

Modular wearable device for conveying affective state

A single device that receives communications, resources, data, and/or other information intended for a user having multiple contact addresses is provided. The single device can receive various information intended for multiple telephone numbers, email aliases, screen names, aliases, other means of contact, or combinations thereof. The device can selectively forward the information to the user based on a current user role, user preferences, contact information, or based on other criteria. If information is to be forwarded to the user at substantially the same time as receipt, automatic means of notifying the user of the role for which the communication is intended are provided.

Single device with multiple personas

A collaborative phone-based file exchange technique that wirelessly synchronizes a user's work context with his or her mobile phone and makes this context readily available and sharable in collaborative situations. When the user is away from their desk, collaboration with others is possible by sharing/downloading between the mobile phone and a paired PC, which may be a colleague's computer or a meeting room workstation/computer. When the user returns to their office, any recently downloaded files are automatically synchronized back to their office PC.

Collaborative phone-based file exchange

A hierarchical shared resources spatial visualization system and method including a visualization runtime user interface that quickly and efficiently displays a spatial layout of a shared resource having a hierarchical nature. The user interface provides a spatial layout of the hierarchical shared resource and overlays salient activity information of a group's interaction with the shared resource. In software development, the user interface provides software teams with awareness of activity by other developers in the group regarding files in the shared source code base. The salient activity includes active file information (such as which files are open and by whom) and source repository actions (such as a developer's activity within a project's source repository system). Visual geometry and colors are employed to create a visually distinctive environment that is used to convey the salient activity information quickly and efficiently.

Spatial layout of hierarchical shared resources

The present invention provides a three-dimensional user interface for a computer system that allows a user to combine and store a group of windows as a task. The image of each task can be positioned within a three-dimensional environment such that the user may utilize spatial memory in order remember where a particular task is located.

Method and apparatus for providing a three-dimensional task gallery computer interface

A system and method for managing software application windows in a graphical user interface having a desktop and taskbar display area are provided. Each instantiated program is represented as one or more graphical windows in the desktop and as a control tile in the taskbar. Control tiles are grouped into control tile groups that facilitate organization and single access control. Project control tile groups allow the grouping of multiple software applications. Additionally, minimized control tile group layout and state may be preserved and previewed prior to being restored.

System and method for managing software applications in a graphical user interface

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described for implementing a digital personal assistant. The digital personal assistant is capable of determining that a user has asked a question or made a statement that is intended to engage with a persona of the digital personal assistant. In response to determining that the user has asked such a question or made such a statement, the digital personal assistant provides a response thereto by displaying or playing back a multimedia object associated with a popular culture reference within or by a user interface of the digital personal assistant. Additionally or alternatively, in response to determining that the user has asked such a question or made such a statement, the digital personal assistant provides the response thereto by generating or playing back speech that comprises an impersonation of a voice of a person associated with the popular culture reference.

Leveraging user signals for improved interactions with digital personal assistant

Determining user use context for electronic messaging and disseminating a subset of the user use context to recipients and/or senders of such electronic message is disclosed herein. By way of example, the user use context can be based on a general context of recipients, such as speed with which a message is disseminated or consumed, number of child messages spawned, rate at which such messages are spawned, and so on. Additionally, user use context can also be based on individual context, by comparing individual interaction to a message (e.g., time to read, time to delete, number of child messages, etc.), with a baseline usage context determined for the individual. The context can be disseminated to recipients of the message or to the sender, to provide an overview of perception of the electronic message.

User perception of electronic messaging

This document describes techniques and apparatuses for implementing a mood-actuated device. In various embodiments, mood information corresponding to a current mood of a user is received. An emotional state of the user is determined based on the mood information, and a mood-actuated device is controlled to react based on the emotional state of the user. In some embodiments, the mood-actuated device includes a flexible material that is configured to react by changing to a shape based on the emotional state of the user.

Mood-actuated device

Providing for graphical visualization of contextual information pertinent to electronic messaging is described herein. By way of example, contextual network usage information or messaging disposition can be determined for a set of participants to electronic communication. The contextual information is compiled into categories and organized at least as a function of category. The compiled data can be transformed into a visualization of user disposition or context and output to a user device as a multi-dimensional graphical rendering. By rendering contextual data graphically, the rich and diverse information available from usage histories, current user context and user dispositions can be output and consumed rapidly and efficiently, resulting in productive electronic interaction.

Visualization of participant relationships and sentiment for electronic messaging

This document describes techniques and apparatuses for implementing a mood-actuated device. In various embodiments, indicators of an emotional state of a user are sensed, and a mood-actuated device is controlled to react based on the emotional state of the user. In some embodiments, the mood-actuated device includes a mechanical component that is configured to react by moving based on the emotional state of the user.

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