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

Souffleur: A Glanceable Display for Mobile Voice Conversations

The speech capabilities of mobile devices have grown, but their displays still rely on a text-based chat. When resuming a voice chat after a context switch, the last messages may not convey the key points of the conversation. Autobiographical use and sessions with external participants led to design goals for a mobile-...

Anton Wolter, William Benjamin, Niklas Elmqvist · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

ControlAnything: Generative UI and On-Demand Device Integration for Mixed-Reality Hand Interaction by a Coding Agent

Connecting hand input in mixed reality (MR) to a nearby physical device typically requires an integration written in advance for that device, its transport and the mapping. ControlAnything defers this integration to the moment of use and assigns it to a coding agent. On a Meta Quest 3, the wearer selects an object outl...

Bektur Ryskeldiev · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

IntentWeaver: Sustaining Coherence across Evolving Intents in Human-AI Co-Writing

Writers hold intents at many levels, from overarching goals to concrete wording, and evolve them by periodically popping back up from the text to higher-level intents. Generative AI co-writing disrupts this practice. Dense drafts capture attention and trap writers in local editing; higher-level intents stall while lowe...

Yuanhao Zhang, Xinru Cheng, Baiqiao Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Reflective Nature Experiences in Virtual Reality

This paper presents the design and evaluation of an accessible virtual reality (VR) nature experience developed to promote mindfulness, reduce stress, and support emotional well-being. The system immerses users in a calming natural environment through realistic landscapes, ambient soundscapes, guided breathing exercise...

Shiva Ghasemi, Maddie Oehler, Annie Xenakis et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Tasteply: Externalizing Stable and Situational Preference as Manipulable Spatial Objects

Most recommender systems treat user preferences as a single signal to infer and optimize, yet human preferences are a mix of a stable preference and situational preferences that turn on and off depending on context. Through Tasteply, we externalize this preference structure as manipulable spatial objects. Tasteply repr...

DaEun Choi, Daniel Lee · 0 citations
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VocabulARy 2.0: A Generative AR System Enabling Personalised 3D Mnemonics for Vocabulary Learning in Context

Mnemonics support vocabulary learning by linking unfamiliar words to familiar concepts through memorable verbal and visual associations. We present a generative AR system that enables learners to create personalised 3D mnemonics by transforming familiar objects in their surroundings into situated mnemonic anchors. The...

Karolina Trajkovska, Matja\v{z} Kljun, Maheshya Weerasinghe et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Thinking Is Not Writing: Designing AI Chatbots to Connect Reasoning and Revision

Supporting students' argumentative writing with AI requires connecting reflection to their revision processes. We present Maike, a Socratic chatbot supporting writing through argument diagnosis, targeted questioning, and a student model across Think and Write modes. In a classroom study, 65 secondary-school students us...

Lucile Favero, Tanja K\"aser, Juan Antonio P\'erez-Ortiz et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Breaking the Modality Barrier: Multimodal Fusion With Missing Modalities for Cybersickness Prediction

Cybersickness is a major barrier to comfortable VR use, and reliable prediction often requires multiple physiological and behavioral sensors. However, existing models typically assume a fixed set of modalities, making them vulnerable when sensors are unavailable and difficult to generalize across datasets with differen...

Purnata Saha, Rifatul Islam, John Quarles · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Slide to Report: Continuous Reporting Symptom-Specific Cybersickness in VR

Cybersickness is often assessed during VR exposure through discrete overall sickness, which cannot capture specific symptoms or their changes over time. Post-exposure questionnaires such as the Simulator Sickness Questionnaire provide symptom-specific measures but cannot be collected during immersion. We investigate wh...

Purnata Saha, Rifatul Islam, Qiliang He et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Growing One's AI Tools: A Paradigm of Practice-Grown Tools

Professionals have long used software built for them by others. This article reports the growth of a professional computer-assisted interpreting (CAI) tool built by its own user, a conference interpreter without programming training. Drawing on an eight-week version-controlled record with telemetry from 133 logged sess...

Zeming Zhao · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Robots in the City: Persona-Based Perceptions of Urban Robots

Pedestrians increasingly encounter robots in urban public spaces without interacting with them, but how robots change the perceived safety of a street remains unclear. We examine how robot presence and type affect perceived safety across urban contexts. We generate 18 images of Seoul streets that vary in time of day, r...

Keonhee Jang, Kanghoon Lee, Seokwoo Yun et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Nov 2026

The Male Abstraction Bias in Internet Culture and Large Language Models

Conceptual abstraction and gender are two equally central aspects of the human mind, yet they have traditionally been studied in isolation from one another, as though they were fundamentally separate. Here, we find gender and abstraction are systematically linked throughout the space of concepts spanning single (N = 40...

Douglas Guilbeault, Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan · 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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