Creative and artistic data visualizations communicate stories and invite engagement, yet how designers develop their expressive forms remains poorly understood. We investigate the design process of data artists through three complementary studies: an analysis of 40 public project accounts, artifact-anchored interviews...
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Social media platforms are embedded in teenagers'daily lives, supporting friendship and identity while exposing teenagers to unwanted contact and privacy harms. Previous scholarship has documented how attention capture strategies and dark patterns shape social media use, and we extend this work to better understand pla...
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An expert evaluation of six privacy and safety tasks across TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube with moderated think aloud sessions and a wayfinding audit that integrates expert evaluation, usability testing, interaction cost, and dark pattern analysis are proposed.
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Overall, persona prompting affects interpretive framing more strongly than descriptive grounding, and profile-pair similarity patterns are strongly correlated for all three output types, although agreement is lowest for justifications.
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A three-stage audit of six widely accessible conversational AI systems compares refusal behaviour across 1,600 crossed prompts per system, isolates relational framing through 300 matched prompt pairs, and contrasts pre-submission framing with post-output critique across fresh sessions.
Artificial intelligence helps education most where an essential provision has been rationed by cost. For language learners that provision is a teacher's voice, which binds listening, reading, speaking, and writing into one act. Published evidence shows why most learners lack it, from a global shortage of 44 million tea...
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A lightweight backchannel head is introduced that predicts, from a full-duplex model's own hidden states, when a backchannel should begin, and once this probability crosses a tunable threshold, a backchannel is force-decoded.
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Studying the spatiotemporal evolution of scientific phenomena often relies on costly simulations and experiments. Machine learning-based surrogate models reduce this cost, but most are limited to deterministic forward prediction. Scientific temporal analysis often requires both forward prediction and backward inference...
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Radiology AI systems increasingly inform clinical decisions such as triage, follow-up imaging, and treatment planning. For these decisions to be made safely, model outputs must be well calibrated, meaning predicted probabilities accurately reflect true risk. Many standard techniques for improving calibration, such as M...
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IDRBench is introduced, a benchmark for evaluating interactive deep research with controlled opportunities for clarification, and shows that access to clarification alone does not guarantee better outcomes: success depends on what agents ask and how effectively they incorporate the resulting feedback.
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Conversational DNA, a visual language and interactive atlas for exploring human and AI dialogue, supports a view of conversation as jointly organized activity, with visual patterns serving as starting points for examining evidence rather than substitutes for interpretation.
Spreadsheet agents are converging on elaborate multi-agent designs, yet it is unclear how much of their performance comes from the agents rather than from the action interface they share. We answer this with SheetMind, a Manager-Action-Reflection framework, in a controlled study over all 221 tasks of the SheetCopilot B...
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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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