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#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Cross-Modal Guidance for Out-of-View Object Search in Simulated Prosthetic Vision

Out-of-view guidance is well established in virtual and augmented reality, but its effectiveness may depend on the visual bandwidth available to the user and under severe visual constraints, guidance performance depended on cue implementation and search stage.

Adyah Rastogi, Apurv Varshney, Tobias Höllerer et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Beyond Technological Solutionism: Rethinking XR in Healthcare

This research challenges the HCI community to confront its role in perpetuating healthcare inequities, demands a fundamental rethinking and proposes a new framework for healthcare innovation that prioritizes human relationships over technical capability, systemic change over feature sets, and actual care delivery over...

M. Akhtar, Cecilia Landa-Avila, Shital Desai et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Book Open access Apr 2026

No Pixel Left Behind: Filling Gaps in Anime Colorization

This work introduces GapFill, a tool grounded in professional practices that reduces the effort of gap detection, zooming, and color selection and suggests appropriate fill colors by referencing surrounding regions, leveraging the flat-color nature of anime-style images.

Masahiro Kono, Akinobu Maejima, Yuki Koyama et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

GazeTune: Facilitating Precise Gaze-Driven Interactions with Cascaded Touch Input

This work investigates how gaze-and-touch enhances dragging and mitigates Motion-Induced instability, and presents GazeTune, a cascaded multimodal interaction technique combining gaze and touch to refine gaze-based selection and manipulation.

Jina Kim, Eric J. Gonzalez, Yang Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Learning Feasibility-Aware Latent Spaces for Preference-Based Exploration of Procedural Automotive Wheel Designs

The results suggest that, for intelligent user interfaces in engineering design, the representation exposed to the user is a central part of the interaction design, not merely a preprocessing step for the optimizer.

T. Owaki, Yuki Koyama, Tomoyasu Nakano et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Aug 2026

Design principles to Increase Technology Self-efficacy for Older Australians with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Older Carers

Results of inductive, reflective, thematic analysis indicate that a desire for independence, autonomy and quality of life motivate use of technology, and perceived technology self-efficacy and IT literacy are enablers.

S. Schmidt, N. D'Cunha, S. Isbel et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Jul 2026

FocusBuddy: Encouraging Healthy Desk-Work Habits by Caring for a Virtual Pet on a Water Bottle

FocusBuddy, a proof-of-concept fabric case that wraps a standard water bottle and houses a microcontroller, environmental sensors, and a small display showing a virtual pet, is presented, suggesting that wellness prompts must respect focused work and that pet neglect can convert a wellness prompt into a source of guilt...

Mohamed Ouf, Rowan Hussein · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Jul 2026

MorphPatch: Enhancing VR Interaction on Shape Displays using Surface Approximation and Visuo-Haptic Illusions

MorphPatch is a system that enables real-time alignment between a dynamic shape display and virtual surfaces, using a Signed Distance Field-based surface approximation pipeline to find practical alignments for diverse geometries.

Wen Ying, Kyeongmin Kim, Adil Rahman et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Jul 2026

AniMaster: From Story Texts to Animated Videos via Cinematic Script Generation and Interactive Authoring

AniMaster is presented, a VGM-powered authoring tool to enable everyday creators to easily produce smooth animated videos from free-form story texts that automatically expands brief story texts to detailed cinematic scripts, and further translates cinematic scripts into polished videos by following professional visual...

Ruiqi Yu, De-Kun Qian, Jia-Le Xu et al. · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 7, 2026

Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry

Students in MIT’s Concourse program delve deeply into the human condition, debate challenging questions, and learn to develop judgment about issues that can’t be quantified.

Microsoft Research Blog Oct 6, 2026

What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us

Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity.  The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Sep 30, 2026

This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego

Able to defeat top-ranked human players and more efficient than other models, the new system could help decision-makers in military maneuvers or business negotiations.

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