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AI-Assisted Submissions in Online Research Are Rare and Highly Concentrated but Routinely Approved

The results do not support the view that AI assistance currently poses an existential threat to online research, but reveal limited payment consequences for prohibited use and gaps in platform safeguards, leaving platforms poorly prepared should that threat materialize.

N. K. R. Sehgal, Manuel Tonneau, D. Folk et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Oct 2026

Drawing the Line: Where AI Guidance and Human Creativity Meet in Emotion-Driven Comic Storyboarding

While generative AI models can produce visually faithful artwork, they often fall short in conveying emotional authenticity--a key driver of human expression. In visual storytelling, particularly comic storyboarding, this gap becomes pronounced: effective storyboards require both technical knowledge (e.g., anatomical a...

Jocelyn Jiayue Shen, Isabella Pu, Alessandro Briseño et al. · 0 citations

"Just Like This": Manner Deixis at the Graphics Interface

People communicate how things should move by combining words with demonstrations:"open it like this."We present an interaction technique that brings this expressive resource to conversational 3D authoring. Building on"Put-That-There,"our system combines speech, pointing, and spatiotemporal demonstrations to specify edi...

Hamza El Alaoui, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Jun Rekimoto · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Move Fast and Mend Things: Keeping Up with Evolving AI Harms Using Social Media Commentary

The rapid deployment of AI systems has created socio-technical, psychological, and operational harms that can elude ex-ante threat modelling and ex-post incident tracking. We introduce an LLM-assisted thematic analysis pipeline to dynamically detect, categorise, and track emerging AI harms from large-scale social media...

Jacqueline Rowe, Animesh Srivastava, Sai Teja Peddinti et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Oct 2026

Supporting Allyship in Virtual Collaboration with Artificial Intelligence: A Scenario-Based Study

Recent research has revealed that accessibility in virtual collaboration is not only a technical problem but also depends on allyship: the informal, interpersonal practices through which people support others'accessibility needs. Yet little research has examined how artificial intelligence (AI) might support allyship i...

Crescentia Jung, Ricardo E. Gonzalez Penuela, Prashita Biswas et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

"I'm Very Happy for It to Start Hallucinating a Little Bit": Using ClayFlect to Negotiate Multimodal AI Representations in Material Meaning-Making

As AI enters reflection and emotional support, understanding how it can participate in personal meaning-making while preserving users' authority over interpretation is increasingly important. We present ClayFlect, a novel MLLM-powered system integrating tactile clay-making with conversational and visual generative AI,...

Kellie Yu Hui Sim, Quoc-Nam Nguyen, Shuenn Yuen Han et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

MorphCL: Morphological Contrastive Learning for Inertial-based Human Activity Recognition

Despite the ubiquity of sensors in wearable and mobile devices and the abundance of human movement data they generate, translating unlabeled recordings into foundational motion models remains an open challenge. Self-supervised learning (SSL) has alleviated the need for costly annotations, yet existing approaches leave...

Marius Bock, Yu-Wei Zhang, Juergen Gall et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

REFIT: Recognize, Fix, and Test Wearable Sensor Placement Shifts without Labels

We present REFIT, an input calibration for frozen activity-recognition models whose inertial sensors are worn differently at deployment than in training. When users move a watch to the other wrist or put a strap sensor back on turned, the model sees the same motion on changed axes. REFIT undoes such shifts without labe...

Bangxun Tang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

An LLM-Native Psychometric Instrument Reveals a Self-Report--Behavior Gap Across 25 Models

Do large language models' (LLMs') answers to self-report questionnaires predict how they behave? Prior work finds they do not, but it uses human personality inventories, so the gap could reflect borrowed human constructs rather than LLM self-report itself. We test this with a self-report instrument built from LLM-speci...

Juan Manuel Contreras · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Linking Behaviour and Perception to Evaluate Meaningful Human Control over Partially Automated Driving

Partial driving automation creates a tension: drivers remain legally responsible while being less active in control. Meaningful human control (MHC), a normative framework that can potentially address this tension, proposes that automated systems are designed to track relevant human reasons and that humans should at all...

Ashwin George, Lucas Elbert Suryana, Lorenzo Flipse et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Bridging Natural Language and Interactive What-If Interfaces via LLM-Generated Declarative Specifications

What-if analysis (WIA) lets users explore hypothetical scenarios by adjusting parameters, applying constraints, and scoping data through interactive interfaces. Current tools fall short: spreadsheet and BI tools require laborious setup, while LLM-generated interfaces frequently misinterpret analytical intent. It remain...

Sneha Gathani, Sirui Zeng, Diya Patel et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How assigned AI use before class shapes active student engagement in class

AI learning tools are rapidly entering classrooms, but evidence about whether they help students learn is mixed and rests mostly on test scores. Comparatively less research addresses whether the use of AI changes students' live learning behaviors in class. Here, we report the results of a preregistered field experiment...

Dan J. Wang, Neelam Modi Jain, Vanessa Burbano 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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