Empowering people with AI with Dr. Cecily Morrison

Episode 60 | January 23, 2019

You never know how an incident in your own life might inspire a breakthrough in science, but Dr. Cecily Morrison, a researcher in the Human Computer Interaction group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, can attest to how even unexpected events can cause us to see things through a different – more inclusive – lens and, ultimately, give rise to innovations in research that impact everyone.

On today’s podcast, Dr. Morrison gives us an overview of what she calls the “pillars” of inclusive design, shares how her research is positively impacting people with health issues and disabilities, and tells us how having a child born with blindness put her in touch with a community of people she would otherwise never have met, and on the path to developing Project Torino, an inclusive physical programming language for children with visual impairments.

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As for simplifying things down and only showing the most relevant data; yes that a good thing to have available. But i feel as if forcing that simplicity can lead to several less than ideal situations: 1) the user may be forced to use only the tools explicitly created which may not be the precise tools they want or need. 2) it may subliminally limit the users thoughts into framing everything in terms of just the tools provided. 3) the information being filtered out for relevance may be important. Having extended advanced control seems to me to be very important.