Anja Thieme

21st May 2021 - Article: Redefining accessibility to build more inclusive technologies in relation to our CHI Paper on: Social Sensemaking with AI: Designing an Open-ended AI experience with a Blind Child.

25-30th April 2020 - We'll be showing Project Tokyo at this years' CHI 2020 conference in Honolulu. Find out more about our interactive demo here entitled: A Dynamic AI System for Extending the Capabilities of Blind People.

16th February 2020 - Article: Microsoft creates a new AR tool that helps blind and low vision users identify people trying to get their attention, and gives them sound cues to indicate how far away their conversation partners are.

30th January 2020 - Article: Microsoft helps blind people recognize faces using AI in project Tokyo.

28th January 2020 - Article: Microsoft wants to make one of Star Trek’s coolest bits of tech real.

28th January 2020 - Article: Microsoft’s Project Tokyo helps visually impaired users ‘see’ with AI and AR.

29th January 2020 - I'm joining the FAT*2020 Panel on: Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in AI at Scale.

7th October 2019 - Article: SilverCloud and Microsoft apply AI smarts to digital therapeutics.

4th October 2019 - Article: Microsoft, Silvercloud to “pioneer” AI in mental health.

3rd October 2019 - Article: SilverCloud Health works with Microsoft in pioneering AI research for mental health

2nd October 2019 - Article: SilverCloud Health Collaborates with Microsoft in Pioneering Artificial Intelligence Research.

2nd October 2019 - Article: Microsoft and SilverCloud to pioneer AI in mental health.

23rd January 2020 - RNIB launches coding tool.

11th January 2020 - Code Jumper wins CES 2020 Best-of-Innovation Award.

10th November 2019 - I'll be joining the TechShare Pro 2019 panel on Ethics, Machine Learning and Disabilities. A great summary of the event by Adam Tweed can be found here.

6th September 2019 - Code Jumper: Physical coding for blind and low-vision children is an Index Award 2019 Finalists in the category: Play & Learning.

7th March January 2019 - Article: Code Jumper gives children who are blind the tools to code.

5th February 2019 - Article: Code Jumper: Teaching Kids With Vision Loss To Jump Into Programming.

5th February 2019 - Article: Microsoft Code Jumper: an “inclusive” toy teaching blind children to code.

14th January 2019 - Article: Microsoft's New Code Jumper Will Now let Visually Impaired Children Learn Programming.

14th January 2019 - Article: Code Jumper: Teaching Visually Impaired Kids Computer Coding.

22nd January 2019 - Article: Microsoft’s Code Jumper makes programming physical for children with visual impairments.

1st December 2018 - I'll be exhibiting Project Torino at RAREfest (Accessibility and Inclusion Apps), a 2-day festival held in Cambridge (UK), organised by the Cambridge Rare Disease Network. The event will shine a light on some successes and innovative solutions that are striving to address that rare diseases are still not being consistently diagnosed, treated and supported effectively. It will raise awareness of rare conditions and bring together all stakeholders in the rare disease community alongside the general public from across Cambridgeshire and beyond.

13th June 2017 - Conference Talk and Best Paper Award for: Enabling Collaboration in Learning Computer Programing Inclusive of Children with Vision Impairments.

15th March 2017 - LinkedIn post by Satya Nadella about Project Torino.

24th March 2017 - Article: Visually Impaired Kids Get a Feel for Code With Help From Microsoft.

20th March 2017 - Article: Project Torino: Microsoft’s Gift To Visually Impaired Children.

20th March 2017 - Article: Project Torino is a physical coding language by Microsoft that allows visually impaired children to code.

17th March 2017 - Article: Microsoft designed these colourful toys to teach blind kids to code.

11th July 2014 - BinCam used as an example at IDEO's New York studio's first hackathon to tackle the challenge of waste in NYC.

25th February 2013 - BinCam has been written about in an article of the Wall Street Journal: "Is Smart Making Us Dumb?" and has been included in a video (minute 2:00-3:58).

11th August 2012 - BinCam will be one of 120 partners who are invited to present their interactive exposed during a two week exhibition on technology, science and education. The exhibition, sponsored by ThyssenKrupp, expects about 400.000 visitors including families as well as partners from industry and politics. For more information, please visit: ThyssenKrupp IdeenPark 2012.

7th May 2012 - Our BinCam system was presented during the 4 days of the CHI conference, which allowed conference attendees to explore the bin and its design features.

26th February 2012 - "Home of the Future" is a TV programme currently broadcasted on Channel 4, introducing a family who faces the future using some of the latest gadgets and gizmos, including our BinCam. We will soon include a video snapshot into the episode. For more information on the programme itself, visit 4oD. Bincam is featured in Series 1, Episode 3.

22nd February 2012 - E.ON Innovation is hosting two blogger meet-ups with parenting and gadget influencers. During these meet-ups, they are going to be discussing E.ON’s nationwide challenge and will include and show BinCam during the meet-ups. The meet-ups take place in central London on Wednesday 22 February 2012. For more information on E.ON innovation, click here.

20th October 2011 - BinCam is featured as part of the One Planet Experience (London), "a new multimedia interactive exhibition at the BedZED visitor centre. Funded by Defra and created by BioRegional, this Inspire mark awarded project explains how London 2012 aims to be the greenest Olympic and Paralympic games ever, and contains three rooms of multimedia and interactive displays to inspire visitors to save energy and reduce waste" (BioRegional, 2011). For more information visit the One Planet website.

21st June 2011 - BinCam was broadcasted on the French News, Channel France 2: 13heurs

8th June 2011 - Video: BinCam makes students recycle through Facebook photos and Article: Facebook bin of shame encourages students to recycle

8th June 2011 - Smile, you're on BinCam! Five households agree to let snooping device record everything they throw away

8th June 2011 - Article: 'BinCam' is a rubbish idea that should be trashed

8th June 2011 - Article: Garbage Police? Webcam in Trashcan Checks Recycling Performance

8th June 2011 - Article: BinCam project encourages students to recycle

30.04.2011 - Article The new thing in digital love: Lovers' Boxes (by Tima Vlasto).

29.04.2011 - Article: Romance and technology in a box! (by Lucy Black).

29.04.2011 - Article: Lovers’ Boxes: Digital Puts the Spark Back Into Relationships.

28.04.2011 - Article: 'Lovers' Boxes' Keep Romance Alive in the Digital Age (by Nic Halverson).

27.04.2011 - Article: Lover’s Box to Enhance Romance Digitally.

26.04.2011 - Article:Lover's Box: Reviving romance in the digital age.

26.04.2011 - Article: Wooden Box Contains Digital Sparks For Romantic Relationships.