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#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PalmSpace: Towards a Versatile On-Palm Interaction Space through Unified Touch Modeling

As smart glasses and lightweight MR devices become increasingly practical, input remains a key challenge. The bare palm is an always-available, tactile, and proprioceptively accessible surface, but it has neither an explicit coordinate system nor embedded touch sensing. Prior on-palm systems typically expose isolated t...

Chentao Li, Mingze Gao, Runze Sun et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Active Inference for Interaction-Mediated Control of a High-Dimensional Robotic Arm

We propose interaction-mediated control via Active Inference as a general architectural approach to high-dimensional control problems in Human--Computer Interaction (HCI). This architecture recasts user interaction as the provision of evidence about a latent task objective, rather than the direct specification of plant...

Fraser C. Paterson, Sebastian Stein, Markus Klar et al. · 0 citations
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DuoSketch: How Pairs Navigate Challenges in AI-Supported Collaborative Design Ideation

Generative AI offers new resources for collaborative design ideation, yet how designers work with it as a shared concept develops remains underexplored. We developed DuoSketch, integrating a shared canvas and live transcripts with a separate AI for each member of a pair. An exploratory qualitative study with 12 pairs i...

Weiyan Shi, Darryl Lim, Geraldine Quek et al. · 0 citations
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A Scale For Value Alignment In Human-AI Interaction

Value alignment is a central objective in AI and HCI research, yet no validated instrument measures how users perceive it. This gap hampers the comparison and accumulation of findings and limits the effectiveness of applications, where understanding users' viewpoints is critical. We construct and evaluate a 13-item psy...

Lena Hegemann, Steeven Villa, Hyemin Bang et al. · 0 citations
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Love for Believable AI: Artificial Partiality and Relationship Persistence as an Engineerable Stance

We study a behavioral mechanism for artificial partiality in conversational agents. The paper reports no human-subjects data and makes no claim about attachment, trust, perceived mind, or machine interiority. Partiality has two components: caring, defined as allocation of a finite interaction surplus above a guaranteed...

Sebastian Cochinescu · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Empowering Users in Graph Rule Mining via Large Language Models

In the era of interconnected data, graphs have emerged as an effective abstraction for modeling complex systems in an intuitive format, especially with the rise of Property Graphs, which offer an intuitive and scalable way of navigating non-intuitive structures. In this context, graph mining techniques have been develo...

Francesco Cambria, Francesco Invernici, Andrea Colombo et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

AI-Driven Urge Regulation Assistant (AURA): Designing Preemptive Smart Wearables for Smoking Cessation

Smoking cessation remains a complex self-regulatory challenge, often undermined by cue-triggered cravings arising from habitual, emotional, and social contexts. Existing wearable cessation systems are largely reactive, detecting smoking events only after lapses occur and thus missing the critical window for timely inte...

Antoni Timothy, Lam Fu Yuan Kevin, Hou Junyi et al. · 0 citations
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When My Skill Becomes Agent Skill: How Knowledge Workers Share Their Expertise with AI Systems

Organizations have long sought to make workers' expertise reusable by others. Agentic AI changes the nature of such reuse by enabling AI systems to act on workers' knowledge with limited human involvement. This raises the question of how this shift shapes workers' willingness to share their expertise. We conducted an e...

Tianqi Song, Zicheng Zhu, Hancheng Cao et al. · 0 citations
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Human-AI Conversational Behaviors Predict Unassisted Task Performance

Assistance from AI tools has supported and improved human performance across domains. However, recent research suggests that these immediate benefits may entail future costs, including diminished performance when AI assistance is no longer available. We study how human-AI interaction behaviors correlate with immediate...

Li Siyan, Federico Bianchi, James Zou et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Before Bringing It Up: When and How AI Companions Should Use Memor

Memory can sustain AI companionship, yet even accurate recollection can be inappropriate to use. Two rounds of formative interviews with 14 users (n = 6 exploratory, n = 8 memory-focused) motivate asking what a companion should consider before using past information. Eight themes inform Reconsider, a single-call proced...

Zihan Guo, Roxy He, Junwei Quan · 0 citations
#neuroscience Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Many Brains, One Geometry: A Shared Visual-Semantic Space for Cross-Dataset fMRI Decoding

Visual decoding from fMRI is typically siloed by participant and experiment, obscuring whether heterogeneous neural measurements can be organized within a common computational geometry. Here we introduce BRAID-fMRI (Brain Representation Alignment across Individuals and Datasets), a shared CLIP-supervised decoding frame...

Moein Khajehnejad, Michelangelo Tronti, Forough Habibollahi et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Activation: Gaze Invocation with Visible Status for an Embodied AR Assistant in Co-Located Collaboration

Wake words face an inherent trade-off: higher sensitivity reduces missed commands but increases accidental activations. In co-located augmented reality (AR), the system must also determine whether the user is speaking to the assistant or to a nearby person. We introduce a new perspective on this problem: combining gaze...

Chenrui Ma, Yoshio Ishiguro, Qing Zhang · 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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