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#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Choosing Together: How Dyadic Negotiation Shapes Adaptive Kitchen Design Preferences for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment and Their Care Partners

Adaptive technology for older adults with cognitive impairment is typically designed around individual preference, yet most of this population lives and cooks with a spouse or family member. This paper examines a co-design workshop in which four dyads and two individuals (N=10) built kitchen cabinet designs from twenty...

Ibrahim Bilau, Abdurrahman Baru, Stacie Smith et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Reconceptualizing Age Assurance as a Sociotechnical Problem: Connecting Evidence, Evaluation, Claims, and Decisions

Age verification is often treated as a technical problem: can a system determine a child's age accurately? We argue this framing is too narrow. Age assurance becomes consequential when evidence is evaluated, translated into age-related claims, and used to decide whether a person can access, purchase, or belong. We revi...

Renkai Ma, Prakriti Dumaru, Thomas Synaepa-Addison et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

The Addictive Intimacy of AI: Understanding User Disengagement from AI Companions and Why Some Relationships with AI Become Difficult to Leave

AI chatbots are increasingly used as sources of emotional support, on dedicated companion apps and general-purpose assistants alike, yet little is known about what happens when users try to leave. Combining a content analysis of Reddit posts about quitting or reducing use (N=2,782) with interviews with users who found...

Qing Xiao, Ziyue Feng, Ziyu Deng et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Not All That Can Be Automated Should Be Automated: Strategic Minimalism as a Disciplined and Ethically Grounded Approach to AI Adoption

As organizations accelerate the adoption and use of artificial intelligence, a common misconception arises that equates automation with progress and strategic necessity. This paper argues that not all that can be automated should be automated. It introduces Strategic Minimalism, a disciplined and ethically grounded app...

Victor Frimpong · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Open access Aug 2025

Algorithmic Authority and the Complexities of Delegated Decision-Making: Case Studies on Ethical Challenges for 21st-Century Leadership

Four recurring governance principles emerged from the findings: Intentionality, whereby leaders deliberately determine when AI should be used; Interpretability, requiring decision processes to be sufficiently transparent to enable explanation and scrutiny; Moral Authorship, whereby identifiable human actors retain resp...

Victor Frimpong · 5 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Onomatopoeia Cursor: Verbal Mirroring of Mouse Movement with Comic-Style Lettering

The mouse cursor has remained visually mute for half a century: it shows where we point, but says nothing about how we move. We present the Onomatopoeia Cursor, a shipped macOS overlay that classifies cursor kinematics in real time and renders Japanese mimetic words (onomatopoeia) as animated comic-style lettering abov...

Yoichi Ochiai, Miki Okamura · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

LLMs Unplugged: Teaching Resources for a ChatGPT World

Large Language Models (LLMs) are everywhere, yet many learners lack a concrete mental model of how they generate text. This paper presents LLMs Unplugged, an unplugged set of activities that teaches the training-to-generation loop (and beyond) using hand-built n-gram models and simple weighted sampling. Workshops based...

Ben Swift (Australian National University) · 0 citations

Does Discussion Matter? Interaction Dynamics in Transparent Peer Review

Open peer review is advocated as a way to make review more dialogic, yet evidence on whether it changes participant behavior remains scarce. We compare two transparent review designs: Nature Human Behaviour, an editor-mediated model, and International Conference on Learning Representations 2023, a discussion-based mode...

Shi-Yao Wei, R. Bi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Book Open access Jul 2026

Adaptive Human-AI Collaboration: A Review of Multimodal Context Modeling, Uncertainty-Aware Intervention, and Longitudinal Co-Adaptation

A review of adaptive human-AI collaboration literature through a closed-loop lens and integrates three taxonomies into MCAL, a dual-timescale Multimodal Co-Adaptation Loop reference model.

Mahyar Tourchi Moghaddam, M. Alipour · 1 citation
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Jul 2026

Emotional Engagement in Narrative Medical Visualization: An Electrodermal Activity and Eye-Tracking Study

A mixed-methods study using electrodermal activity, eye tracking, and questionnaires to compare two medical data stories: an individual, character-based version and a general, population-level version without an individual protagonist, suggesting that individual and population-level framings may support different emoti...

B. Budich, L. Garrison, M. Vaudel et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 5, 2026

Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit

AI agents can generate code at a scale that’s hard for humans to review line-by-line. PDD Kit helps ensure the code is doing what the developer intended by creating formal specifications and testing against them. It converts developer intent into a Verus specification, proves AI-generated code meets it for every input, and uses tests where proofs aren't practical. Developers review intent, not every line. The post Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit appeared first o…

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 28, 2026

Making machines that can listen

Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 23, 2026

Reinforcing the value of human understanding at MIT

During the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, President Sally Kornbluth said “MIT has never needed your particular insight and guidance more than we do now.”

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 23, 2026

Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind

Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.

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