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#human-computer interacti... Preprint Jul 2026

Collaboratively Eliciting Gestures for Geospatial Data Exploration on an MSE with Tangibles and Styluses

A gesture elicitation study was conducted in which users suggested interactions for 16 geospatial data visualization tasks, presented as a realistic collaborative workflow co-designed with geography and migration researchers, producing a taxonomy of user-defined gestures using tangibles and styluses for engaging with g...

K. P. Valdivia, Nujaimah Ahmed, Aswah Butt et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Book Open access Sep 2026

TEIDAN: A Multilingual Multiparty Dialogue Corpus

This paper describes the collection design, participants, recording setup, transcription format, and corpus statistics, and provides preliminary analyses to illustrate how TEIDAN can support research on turn-taking, addressee recognition, and multimodal grounding in human-human and human-agent interaction.

Taiga Mori, K. Inoue, Mikey Elmers et al. · 2 citations
#natural language process... Book Open access Apr 2026

MemeBridge: A Dataset for Benchmarking and Mitigating the Bidirectional Cultural Gap in Meme Interpretation

MemeBridge, a curated dataset centered on U.S.-originated memes, is introduced, designed to capture two complementary perspectives: how Chinese participants interpret these memes, and how U.S. participants anticipate how people from other cultures might misunderstand them.

Hangxiao Zhu, Ming Jiang, Yu Zhang · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

ToSCA: Leveraging Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning on Temporal and Strategic Abstractions of Conversational Agents

A two-level hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) framework for conversational agents that bridges the gap between existing token-level and utterance-level RL methods and introduces a dual-granularity reward mechanism that combines the utterance-level satisfaction score with token-level intrinsic self-consistency a...

Xiaoyu Wang, Qing-Qing Gu, Yue Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

NeuroPriv: Adversarial Representation Learning for Privacy in Wearable EEG Systems

It is shown that commonly used EEG features can reveal participant identity and demographic attributes in addition to supporting the intended cognitive task, motivating purpose-limited representations and explicit privacy auditing in wearable neurohealth systems.

Sarmistha Sarna Gomasta, Bhawana Chhaglani, Prashant J. Shenoy · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Jul 2026

Anamnesis: An Open-Source Platform for Large-Scale Backstory-Conditioned Survey Simulation

Anamnesis produces opinion distributions that more closely match real-world survey data than standard persona-prompting baselines, offering a transparent, reproducible, and open-source alternative to proprietary simulation services.

Song Yu, Joseph Suh, Serina Chang et al. · 0 citations

DigitalCoach: Communication and Grounding Gaps in Human and Agentic Computer Use Coaching

DigitalCoach, a multimodal dataset of 72 human expert-novice computer use coaching sessions consisting of 22,752 dialogue turns grounded in 28.1 hours of screen and input event recordings across five software applications, evaluates whether state-of-the-art models can teach humans how to use computers.

Meng Chen, An-Ya Ji, Tsung-Han Wu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Conference Open access Apr 2026

Self-EmoQ: Plutchik-Guided Value-based Planning to Drive Streaming Emotional TTS

An emotion-planning framework that determines the emotion prior to the textual generation, grounding the downstream emotional TTS in a streaming manner, and finally implements an entire streaming pipeline for real-time deployment.

Yue Zhao, Hongyang Li, Yong Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Nov 2025

Individualized Algorithmic Advice as a Strategic Signal on Competitive Markets

This experiment examined how algorithmic advice affects human behavior in a classic economic game with a unique, non-collusive, and analytically traceable equilibrium, finding that algorithmic advice can function as a strategic signal, shaping coordination even without explicit communication.

T. Rebholz, Maxwell Uphoff, Christian H. R. Bernges 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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