Online communities often treat large support margins in public elections as strong mandates. We argue that such margins can overstate the independent scrutiny behind a decision. Using 198,275 free-text rationales from Wikipedia admin elections, we introduce vote-text divergence, a measure that flags a decisive vote pai...
We describe a participatory design approach toward developing Deaf-centric text-to-speech (TTS) technologies. While TTS is growing rapidly in the mainstream, it has received little attention to date in the deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) technology space. Critical problems have remained unaddressed for DHH users, includ...
Shela Z. Atemnkeng, Patrick Boudreault, Paige S. DeVries et al.· Proceedings of the 2026 28th...· 0 citations
A hardware-agnostic, real-time P300 acquisition pipeline built on BrainFlow and Lab Streaming Layer that runs unchanged across consumer- and research-grade EEG headsets is presented, with permutation tests of signal separability showing Flex showed the most promising signal.
The methods for capturing the creative process come with associated tensions around memory recall, articulation, and communication during the act of making, as well as how to record these considerations. This paper has a twofold purpose: first, to offer an example of a mixed methodology, drawn from dance anthropology,...
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These findings separate interface effects from relationships among users' perceptions and show why ability, integrity, and benevolence should be evaluated separately.
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Transcutaneous cervical vagus nerve stimulation is proposed as a ubiquitous system to provide immediate, low-effort intervention during an eating episode to provide evidence for the feasibility of non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation as a low-attention intervention for managing eating behavior.
Tan Gemicioglu, Jas Brooks, Pedro Lopes et al.· Proceedings of the ACM on In...· 1 citation
In real-world design practice, evaluations rarely rely on a single source of judgment. Designers routinely combine expert opinions, empirical studies, and computational models, each with distinct strengths and limitations. While machine learning offers methods to integrate multiple feedback sources, these approaches re...
Francisco Erivaldo Fernandes Junior, Thomas Langerak, Mira Ker\"anen et al.· 0 citations
Introduction: In this paper, we present the preliminary design of a toolkit for making glyph-based physicalizations for public engagement. We use London river health data as a case study: a data set of significance to urban issues related to climate change and of interest to draw public attention, as part of the Greate...
Maria Teresa Ortoleva, Min Chen, Rita Borgo et al.· 0 citations
Video lectures have become increasingly prevalent for education and professional development, yet their static visuals, dense information, and long duration pose attentional challenges for individuals with ADHD. While adaptive learning offers opportunities towards ADHD-accessible video learning, little is known about h...
Hanxiu'Hazel'Zhu, Wei-Yu Zhang, Ru Wang et al.· 0 citations
This work presents an agentic framework that assigns a vision-language agent to each accessibility requirement, and implements the framework for 40 requirements from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
Arjun Mishra, P. Karthik, Byungjun Bae et al.· 0 citations
What does popular content look like when platforms withhold the usual cues? On TikTok, users still form impressions about which videos are taking off even when likes and view counts are hidden, delayed, or pushed to the margins of the interface. We study this problem through TokOrNot, a web-based game in which particip...
A five-year interview study with 17 Chinese digital painters, based on annual semi-structured interviews from 2021 to 2025, frames these accounts as longitudinal agency partitioning, the situated work of deciding which stages, responsibilities, values, and claims remain human in creative human-agent interaction.
Yi-Bo Meng, Rui-Qi Chen, Shu-Heng Cao et al.· 0 citations
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…
Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 23, 2026
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· news.mit.eduOct 23, 2026
Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 22, 2026
“X-Hinges” helps design and 3D print items like lamps and gloves with an interactive twist: automatically embedded sensors that perceive and adaptively respond to human contact.
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