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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

AI Should Facilitate Democratic Deliberation at Scale

This position paper argues that AI-assisted deliberation offers a more promising path by lowering barriers to meaningful engagement without substituting machine judgment for human choice.

José Ramón Enríquez, Jia-Xin Pei, A. Pentland · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

DataCanvas-EDU: An Agentic Framework for Instructor-Guided Synthetic Data Generation in Business Analytics Education

Business analytics education requires diverse datasets to support different learning objectives, student backgrounds, and analytical tasks. Real-world data can be difficult to obtain and offer limited flexibility for adapting a case to a particular course. Even when suitable data are available, instructors must investi...

Bang An, Maria Hamdani, Joseph Fox · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

Ownership in AI-Assisted Everyday Tasks

It is found that felt ownership depends on the process of collaboration: people disown work when they merely approve AI's suggestions, but retain ownership when they lead, iterate, or rewrite, but retain ownership when they lead, iterate, or rewrite.

Megan Wei, Melanie Subbiah, Audrey Lee et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

EgoPHI: Estimating 3D Hand-Object Contact and Force from Egocentric Vision

This work presents EgoPHI, the first method that jointly estimates dense contact maps and 3D force distributions on hand and object meshes from a single monocular RGB image and object geometry, and demonstrates that EgoPHI improves force estimation over existing approaches while generalizing to unseen datasets.

Andela Ilic, Rachel Schuchert, Yi-Jing Jiang et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Evaluating Glanceable Multi-Device Family Health Tracking with Smartwatches and Home Displays

While ubiquitous computing research has explored diverse devices for personal health tracking, we know less about multi-device designs for family informatics, where health management is inherently collaborative. To understand how families adopt and perceive ubiquitous access to shared health data across contexts, we ev...

Lucas M. Silva, Evropi Stefanidi, Aehong Min et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Sep 2026

Examining the Difference in Human Behavior Between Virtual and Real-World Human-Robot Teaming

A user study examining the difference in human behavior between an HRT scenario conducted in a virtual vs real environment and found differences in participants's strategy, their mental model of robots, and the type of trust they had for robots between modalities.

Sean Dallas, Absalat Getachew, Motaz Abuhijleh et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Sep 2026

Hardware-Free Robotics Laboratories in Mixed Reality

Teaching robotics relies on screen-based simulation, showing robot motion in an abstract coordinate frame rather than at real scale in the learner's own space, while access to physical hardware is limited by cost, safety, and scheduling constraints. We present MR-Robotics LAB, a mixed-reality (MR) platform that replays...

Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Habiba-Loai Khalil, A. Koshelev et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Conference Open access Jul 2026

Real-Time Service Robot Replanning Via Simple Button Interaction for Improved Task Success and User Experience

Experimental results support the study's hypothesis and indicate that incorporating this real-time feedback function can simultaneously improve task success and the user experience.

Ryo Terashima, Yuga Yano, Koshun Arimura et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

EarStreAM: A Closed-Loop Earable System for Personalized Stress-Adaptive Meditation

EarStreAM is presented, a closed-loop earable system for stress-adaptive meditation that integrates in-ear physiological sensing with personalized, real-time intervention and highlights how in-ear sensing, closed-loop adaptation, and personalized generative meditation can be integrated into an earable system for real-t...

Jonas Hummel, Luisa Faust, Elias Müller et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

"Okay, I've Actually Softened My Take on This": How People in Decentralized Social Media Reason about the Appropriateness of Generative AI

This work examines how people reason about GenAI's appropriateness in DSM and conceptualizes this as boundary drawing and shows how making such boundaries visible can support more grounded design, policy, and collective deliberation around GenAI in DSM.

Romina Mahinpei, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Andrés Monroy-Hernández et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Integrating Flipped Learning and Generative AI for Practice-Based Design Education: Evidence from a Knit Yarn Design Course

In practice-based design courses such as knit yarn design, students must turn visual ideas into feasible material outcomes. This is difficult because creative decisions are tied to yarn properties, stitch structures, machine operation, and limited opportunities for physical sampling. This study presents an integrated p...

Hong Qu, Zichao Ling, Yadie Yang · 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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