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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Incremental Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Human-in-the-Loop Decision Support

We introduce iRAG, a human-in-the-loop decision-support system combining Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Hybrid Decision-Making. Unlike conventional RAG systems, relying on static Knowledge Bases (KBs), our proposal addresses settings where the KB is initially empty and is progressively populated through huma...

Federico Mazzoni, Andrea Failla · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Work2Skill: Capturing Human GUI Experience for Reusable Agent Skill Induction

Computer-use agents can perform increasingly complex GUI tasks, yet unfamiliar software and workflows requiring human domain knowledge remain challenging. Human demonstrations convey procedural knowledge through the same GUI interaction space, but reuse requires interpreting actions in context and separating workflow r...

Yuqi Huang, Hui Li, Yifei Cao et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CaRing: Preventing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome based on Daily Activities from Always-Available Input Device

We present CaRing, a ring worn on the base knuckle of the index finger, a wearable system for detecting the start and end of mouse use to help prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, in which the damage to the median nerve is permanent. CaRing senses finger movement, which neither a software timer nor a wrist-worn device detec...

Shuowei Li, Houdong Liang, Xingjian Dong · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TRACE: Temporal Reasoning over Context and Evidence for Activity Recognition in Smart Homes

Human activity recognition (HAR) in smart homes remains challenging because many daily activities exhibit similar local sensor patterns, while minimally intrusive sensing provides sparse and ambiguous observations. As a result, methods based on short temporal or event windows often fail to capture the broader temporal...

Yingtian Shi, Abivishaq Balasubramanian, Jessica Herring et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

It's Always 10:10: Reference Images Break a Bias That Prompts Only Dent

Text-to-image models appear to reproduce the habits of the photographs they learned from. Analog clocks are an extreme case: in advertising, watches almost always show 10:10, and generated clocks return to 10:10 even when another time is requested. We measure this bias and test three ways of overcoming it on 52 models...

Luca Cazzaniga · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

TAP3D: Thermal-Assisted 3D Human Point Clouds

By transforming body heat into point clouds for the first time, TAP3D pioneers a new paradigm for privacy-first, fully passive human sensing for many applications, offering significant advantages in cost, density, human sensitivity, and privacy.

Xie Zhang, Cheng-Xiao Li, Xuan Liu et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

An ecology of participation for fusion energy development

Decisions that will shape future fusion facilities, including the production of waste, the management of tritium, the achievement of safety, and impacts on land, water, and local communities, are increasingly becoming sociotechnical in nature. For prior energy technologies, fission among them, such decisions were made...

Aditi Verma, Katie Snyder, Andrea Morales Coto et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Oct 2026

Improving social media for democratic discourse

Social media have expanded opportunities for communication and political participation, but today's dominant platforms are optimized primarily for engagement and advertising revenue, contributing to concerns about polarization, misinformation, social isolation, and loss of civility. We explore how social media might in...

Fang-Hui Cheng, Amirhossein Farzmahdi, Pin-Yuan Feng et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Hybrid Cinematography: Previsualizing and Managing Hallucination Risk in Generative Video Reshooting

On a film set, the camera move is committed during a take. Generative video reshooting lets filmmakers change it afterward, but may require hallucinating unrecorded content, a gap sometimes discovered only after leaving the set. We present Hybrid Cinematography, a workflow that bridges physical capture and generative r...

Nhan (Nathan), Tran, Neal Wadhwa et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

"Hot-Blooded" vs "Cold-Blooded": Simulating the Behavioral Phenotypes of Childhood Aggression via Generative Agents

This study examines the construct validity of LLM-based generative agents in simulating reactive, proactive, and co-occurring aggression in children. Four distinct agents were instantiated using a theory-driven parameterization grounded in the social information processing model. A total of 1,920 simulation runs were c...

Liping Fu · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

STcubeOperator: A Framework for Analyzing Spatiotemporal Event Data

The analysis of spatiotemporal event data is essential for informed decision-making in domains such as disaster response, conflict analysis, or intelligence investigations. However, the complexity and interdependence of spatial, temporal, and multiple thematic attributes pose significant challenges for both analysis an...

Julius Rauscher, Lucas Joos, Mark Rohonyi et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

NeuroDivSim: An Interactive Tool for Model-Based Reflection on Cognitive Diversity in Interface Design

Recent approaches to simulated and synthetic users offer new ways to support design, but raise questions about how computational representations of users should contribute to design practice. We present NeuroDivSim, an interactive tool that explores simulation as an inspectable mechanism for reflecting on cognitive div...

Eske Beckefeld, Henrik H. J. Detjen · 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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