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

Baseline Exposure to Common Data Visualization Types Among the U.S. Adult Population

Data visualizations are a primary means of communicating statistical information to the public. Their expanding use across news media, public health, education, and government reporting places greater importance on audiences' ability to recognize and interpret them. While a significant body of prior research has establ...

Kiegan Rice, Nola du Toit, Quentin Brummet et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RealGUINoise: An Interactive Cross-Platform Benchmark for GUI Agent Robustness under Real-World Interface Noise

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents and Computer-Using Agents (CUAs) are rapidly becoming practical tools. However, real-world deployment increasingly exposes performance failures and safety risks, while a major yet underexplored source of these problems lies in the complex and noisy conditions of everyday interfaces...

Yongjiang Wu, Junyuan Zhang, Ada Chen et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

One Tool, One Taste? How Vibe Coding Trades Collective Diversity for Individual Creativity

Vibe-coding systems turn natural-language instructions into deployed websites, but little is known about the diversity of designs produced within a shared production context. We study 73 promotional websites created by graduate students with Lovable for distinct real businesses under a graded assignment that rewarded o...

L\'eonard Boussioux, Ziyi Zhao, Kanghyun Cho · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EmAvatar: Multimodal Empathetic Response Generation via Conflict Resolution and Expressive Guidance

Avatar-based multimodal empathetic response generation has emerged as a pivotal capability in human-centric systems, aiming to recognize user emotions and synthesize responses with synchronized text, audio, and talking-face video. Despite recent progress, existing methods still suffer from three critical limitations: (...

Xiaolin Chen, Xuemeng Song, Jinlan Fu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Fairness Theatre: Evaluating Post-Hoc Fairness Interventions in Vendor-Controlled Early Warning Systems

Public institutions increasingly procure AI systems whose design they cannot inspect or change. In higher education, proprietary Early Warning Systems (EWS) leave colleges with few options beyond adjusting model outputs to address inequity. This raises the question of how fairness work is coordinated among vendors, ins...

Kelly McConvey, Angelina Zhai, Rebecca Li et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

EFormer: Temporally Aligned Local Correction for Continuous sEMG-Based Hand Pose Tracking

Surface electromyography (sEMG) provides a wearable, camera-free signal for continuous hand-motion inference. Mapping muscle activity to joint kinematics remains challenging because the recorded waveforms are indirect measurements, their relationship with motion changes over time, and individual anatomy and sensor plac...

Jia-Cheng Ge, Si-Yu Zhang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Open access Jul 2023

ETHER: Aligning Emergent Communication for Hindsight Experience Replay

This work bridges Emergent Communication and goal-conditioned RL, opening the door to wider applications of HER, and proves that the relabelling and predicate functions that ETHER derives from the RG avoid the degenerate solutions of the Hindsight RL problem, namely trivial predicates and collapsed relabelling function...

Kevin Denamganaï, Daniel Hernandez, Ozan Vardal et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Richard: Voice-First Mobile Interaction for Persistent Tasks

This work presents Richard, a system prototype that manages voice sessions, task execution, and result delivery separately, linking them through persistent request records, and examines this design through Android functional records, controlled lifecycle verification, and execution records of a real programming request...

Xin-Yang Chen · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Understanding Parents' Complex Views of AI for Children's Pretend Play

AI could support children's pretend play, but it could also direct the play on behalf of children. Whether AI should have roles in children's lives is controversial because its influence on children remains uncertain. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 10 U.S. parents, each with at least one child aged 4-15....

Sungho Oh (Sander Oh), Mohammad Namvarpour (Matt Namvarpour), Maxi Heitmayer et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

When a Kindergartener Solves Calculus: Measuring Capability Leakage in Role-Prompted Reasoning Models

Injection is proposed, an inference-time intervention that combines explicit, role-specific capability guidelines with a guiding prefilled response prefix that improves role-capability alignment across models, reducing above-role accuracy by up to 0.562 while preserving in-role accuracy with a marginal drop of less tha...

Pakhapoom Sarapat, Saksorn Ruangtanusak, Kunat Pipatanakul et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

NarrativeSteward: Coordinating Delegation, Guidance, and Verification in Agent-Assisted Interactive Narrative Authoring

Qualitative findings show how reviewing the work and feedback helps authors develop requirements and guide subsequent delegation and NarrativeSteward supported easier formulation of revision requests and inspection of changes, than general-purpose agents.

Wenjin Wang, Jia-Zhen Lei, Yu-Xin Sha et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Characterizing Questioning Patterns and Student Engagement Through Contextual Analysis of Real-Time Classroom Interactions

Real-time classroom polling is now routine, yet the data it produces is usually read narrowly, as a correctness score or a headcount. Such readings say little about what a poll is doing within a lecture or how it shapes engagement. This is particularly relevant for short-response formats such as True/False, where the s...

Rohit Sharma, Pavani Ayinampudi, Aditya B. M. V. 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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