Companies and brands increasingly use dynamic pricing, including targeting social media ads to users based on their income. In this work we audit TikTok's feed using 56 automated accounts, which collect data on over 80,000 videos, across two studies. We test the impact of device price on ad load and ad types, using 12...
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This technical report presents TeamLens, an optional Critsly interface for voluntarily sharing a self-reported MBTI type with a particular board, an implemented disclosure-to-aggregation workflow and an auditable technical account of its correctness boundaries, privacy limitations and scaling cost.
Although not exhaustive, the findings indicate that the card-sorting approach can organise and streamline the design of the evaluation process, encouraging a more comprehensive and multidisciplinary assessment of XAI systems in research and development.
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Generative AI can support writing, but frictionless access may cause cognitive offloading before users develop their own ideas. We introduce Engage-to-Unlock, a productive-friction mechanism that unlocks generative capabilities after users meaningfully engage with the task. In a controlled experiment (N = 398), partici...
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Assessing learning in large classrooms presents a significant challenge for individual instructors, who may have limited capacity to evaluate the understanding, participation, and assessment behaviour of every student. Peer assessments have been a way of distributing this responsibility among learners, allowing them to...
Jinal Gupta, Pavani Ayinampudi, Aditya B. M. V. et al.· 0 citations
Large language models are increasingly used as collaborators on deductive-reasoning tasks, but their outputs can hallucinate or pull users away from intended reasoning. Formal proof assistants provide machine-checked verification, but have a steep learning curve and require more granular reasoning than human written pr...
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Multimodal large language models (LLMs) increasingly integrate vision and text, yet how people use them in natural settings remains underexplored. We seek to answer the question: when users upload images, what tasks are they trying to accomplish? Analyzing over 40,000 de-identified image-upload conversations from Micro...
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Users experience different balance challenges while standing, walking, and turning in virtual reality (VR), yet most locomotion techniques apply the same visual behavior regardless of movement state. We present a real-time movement-smoothing design framework in this paper that organizes visual adaptations according to...
We present three locomotion adaptation approaches: Motion Acceleration, Turn Acceleration, and Motion Deceleration to improve postural stability during body-state transitions in virtual reality (VR). The system detects standing-to-walking, turning, and walking-to-stopping transitions and applies adaptive locomotion smo...
How students interact with artificial intelligence (AI) systems in educational settings may determine whether that interaction supports or displaces critical thinking. This paper introduces two contributions. The first is the Three Paths of Student-AI Interaction, a typological framework identifying three qualitatively...
Critique in design education depends on interpreting work in progress, articulating intentions and translating feedback into revisions. This technical report presents Critsly, an artefact-aware AI critique workspace, and StudioCrit, its architecture-studio research mode. Critsly combines a visual board, design-intentio...
The growing complexity in home energy management (HEM) demands advanced systems that guide occupants toward informed energy decisions reflecting their background, preferences, and context. Large language model (LLM)-integrated HEM systems (HEMS) have demonstrated promise, but previous studies relied on single-turn or s...
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.
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· news.mit.eduSep 30, 2026
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.
Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist will collaborate with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to advance AI and scientific discovery.
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