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#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Evolution and 'Chineseness' of Urban Screens in China: From Propaganda Posters to Smart City Interfaces

Urban screens have become a global feature of the media city, yet their developmental paths are not universal. This paper argues that the evolution of urban screens in China constitutes a distinct paradigm of media urbanism, termed Chineseness, understood here not as cultural essence but as a relational, historically s...

Wuwu Ran · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EEGaze: Multimodal Attention Prediction in Visual Search via EEG-Based Saliency Refinement

Visual search is ubiquitous in daily life, from locating keys in a messy apartment to finding a tool in a cluttered workshop or an application icon on a desktop screen. While visual attention is to a large extent driven by image content, research in psychology indicates that user cognitive states have a significant inf...

Mansi Sharma, Dinar Orazgaliyev, Antonio Kr\"uger et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Oct 2026

Reflective Computing

Interactive technology is increasingly built for speed, and generative AI now answers before a question is fully formed. Yet the capacity to pause, interpret and decide for oneself is central to wellbeing, learning and meaningful use. HCI has named paradigms for sensing emotion, changing behavior, calming attention and...

M. Akhtar · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Being Accurate: Implications for Using Natural Language Descriptions for Accessible 3D Modeling with~Blind and Low Vision Makers

People who are blind or have low vision (BLV) are largely excluded from 3D modeling tools that rely on visual representations of geometry. Natural language descriptions offer a potential path to accessibility, but it is unclear whether language alone can support the deep spatial understanding that editing, not just bro...

Gene S-H Kim, Nicholas Oskiper, Sean Follmer et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Visible Reasoning: User-Facing Decision Transparency for Generative AI Systems

Across multiple waves of computing, public trust in new technology has followed the emergence of governance mechanisms that made dominant risks legible and manageable. Generative AI shifts this pattern: these systems synthesize across heterogeneous sources, and users increasingly experience them as reasoning systems. T...

Sanjay Krishna Anbalagan, Xinrui Nie, Anughna Kommalapati et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ECHOES: An Adaptive LLM-Powered AR Glasses Docent for Evidence-Grounded Urban Heritage Interpretation

Urban heritage tours are often delivered through fixed scripts, leaving limited room for visitors' situated questions, language preferences, or requests for evidence. We present ECHOES, an adaptive LLM-powered AR glasses docent for evidence-grounded interpretation of historical buildings. Specifically, the agent adapts...

Bang Xiao, Baosheng Jin, Jinhan Niu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

The Impact of Personalized AI Response Suggestions on Content Creators'Direct Messaging

A system providing personalized, AI-generated response suggestions tailored to creators'writing styles to maintain their media personas is designed, indicating that while AI suggestions enhance efficiency, they can undermine a creator's engagement in communication by shifting their attention toward monitoring AI.

Eun Jeong Kang, Jing-Ruo Chen, Jadon Geathers et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Babysitting AI Agents: A User-Centered Taxonomy and Study of Agentic Delegation Failures

Users are increasingly delegating tasks to AI agents, allowing agents to perform long-running, multi-step workflows on their behalf. However, agents may perform these tasks in ways that depart from users'expectations for how they should be carried out, leading to what we call agentic delegation failures. We leverage a...

Shravika Mittal, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Scott Counts et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Affective and Functional Needs in AI Use: User Patterns and Their Relation to Real-Life Support and Well-Being

Conversational AI systems are increasingly used to fulfill both functional and affective needs, yet how users perceive the AI-adoption effects varies. Existing research tends to treat these two needs as binary categories and to classify users by a single dominant need. However, this approach fails to capture users who...

Jessy Wang-Sun, Estelle Yiyuan Sun, Hualin Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The CAPED Framework: Characterizing User Skills in Chart Authoring through the Lens of Tasks and Tools

In this paper, we introduce a new framework for characterizing the user skills required for chart authoring. Despite growing attention to authoring systems, we lack a conceptual framework that characterizes the diverse and multifaceted skills involved and helps identify opportunities for system design and development....

Bongshin Lee, Zhicheng Liu, John Thompson et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Rewriting the Self: User Perceptions of AI-Mediated Cognitive Reframing

Individuals are increasingly using AI for psychological support. One specific paradigm, AI-mediated cognitive reframing (AIM-CR), uses AI to automatically reframe users' negative thoughts ("I failed...") into more adaptive perspectives ("I am learning..."). While prior work suggests that AIM-CR tools reduce users' nega...

Yuewen Yang, Olzhas Yessenbayev, Anna R. Van Meter et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Perceived Acceptability of Sensory Augmentation

Sensory augmentation (SA) can extend how people perceive and engage with public environments through the body, offering opportunities to support shared multimodal experiences between deaf and hearing visitors. Designing such systems requires understanding which combinations of tactile stimuli and body locations users p...

Michel Witter, Alwin de Rooij, Michel van Dartel 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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