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#robotics Preprint Open access Sep 2026

MarineCraft: Enabling Rapid Prototyping of Underwater Robots via Modular Construction

Underwater robot development is often hindered by the complexities of waterproofing and wiring, which significantly delay the rapid prototyping process. This paper presents MarineCraft, a modular toolkit designed to accelerate the development cycle through structural reconfiguration. The system features self-contained,...

Yuta Sugiura · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

RobotEQ-Video: A Video-Centric Benchmark for Social Proactive Intelligence with World-State Taxonomy

This work advances SPI research from static images to dynamic videos and ensures more comprehensive scenario coverage during benchmarking with RobotEQ-Video, a hierarchical world-state taxonomy organized into a four-level coarse-to-fine structure.

Xin-Yi Che, Zheng Lian, Kuo-Fei Fang et al. · 1 citation
#robotics Preprint Open access Sep 2026

OpenRoIS: A Community-Driven Open-Source Middleware Implementing the Robotic Interaction Service (RoIS) Framework for Physical Robots and Virtual Agents

Service applications for human-robot interaction are commonly written against the hardware-specific interfaces of one platform, so a change of hardware forces a rewrite of the application. The Robotic Interaction Service (RoIS) Framework 2.0, standardized by the Object Management Group (OMG), addresses this fragmentati...

Sebastian Carrera Villalobos, Christopher Nolan Arellano, Arne Hitzmann et al. · 0 citations

A Sociotechnical Review of Algorithms in Health Systems: Technical, Cost, and Human-Centered Considerations

Artificial intelligence (AI) applications in healthcare are becoming increasingly prevalent, to assist health systems, providers, and patients with tasks such as decision-making, risk prediction, and diagnosis. This increasing computational potential brings AI applications to the forefront of workplace decision making,...

Victoria Chui, Kelly McConvey, Shion Guha · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Beyond Reactive Assistance: PV-Care Using Low-Density EEG and AI to Provide Proactive, Context-Aware Help for MCI

The growing elderly population gives rise to an urgent need for intelligent support systems, particularly for individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). This paper presents PV-Care, a proactive AI-driven assistance scheme that integrates wearable electroencephalogram (EEG) sensing with visual environmental perce...

Simon L Liu, Manish Kumar Krishne Gowda · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Can I Trust My Body? A Three-Year Autoethnography of ChatGPT's Place in My Support System for Panic Attacks

People increasingly seek mental health support from large language models, yet little is known about their use across years of recurrent panic. We present a three-year analytic autoethnography of the first author's ChatGPT use while living with panic disorder, drawing on conversations, personal records, and accounts fr...

D. Pan, Pan Hui, Mirjana Prpa · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Depressive symptoms are reflected differently across digital contexts

As more of everyday life takes place online, digital behavior may provide a potential window into how depressive symptoms are reflected in daily life. Yet digital mental health studies have produced mixed findings. These inconsistencies may partly reflect how digital behavior is measured: self reported use, single devi...

Yajing Wang, Emilia Marchese, Talayeh Aledavood et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Comparing Haptic Feedback Across Hand Tracking and Controllers in VR Object Interaction Tasks

Hand tracking offers natural VR interaction but lacks controllers'inherent tactile feedback, while haptic feedback across input methods remains understudied. We conducted a participant study comparing vibration, impulse, and no feedback in hand- and controller-based VR interaction across grasp-, pinch-, and tap-like ge...

Natalia Ocampo, J. Gonzalez, Robert J. Teather et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Beyond Counting Blessings: Tracing the Evolution of Gratitude Practices and Technology Needs

Gratitude technologies support well-being by prompting reflection on what people appreciate. But gratitude does not serve the same purpose in every circumstance: as life situations change, so does what people seek from it, and whether it feels appropriate at all. To understand how technology can adapt to and support su...

Joy Qiuyue Zhong, Jeongah Lee, Drishti Goel et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Comparing Hand and Controller Avatars with Hand Tracking and Controller-Based Interaction

Previous research suggests that the congruency between common VR input devices - such as controllers or hand tracking - and their visual representations (e.g., hand or controller avatars) influences user experience and performance. However, the specific effects of input-avatar combinations remain underexplored. We stud...

Natalia Ocampo, J. Felipe Gonzalez, Robert J. Teather · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Notrix: Understanding Machine Learning Solutions Across Computational Notebooks at Scale

Computational notebooks make problem-solving visible, but typically only one notebook at a time. Meanwhile, in data science platforms like Kaggle, one competition can accumulate hundreds of notebooks. Effective collection-level analysis requires characterizing recurring solution patterns across all notebooks, as well a...

Xiaotian Su, Hongxin Fu, Xiaoyu Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Book Open access Sep 2026

Do We Care About Personalization and Explainability? An Interview Study with News Recommendation Engineers

This study examines how news engineers and related technical stakeholders perceive and implement personalization and explainability in practice, and provides actionable and practical guidelines for news engineers and researchers on how to adopt explainability methods within a news personalization pipeline.

Jasmin Kareem, Siddharth Mehrotra, M. Willemsen 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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