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#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Opacity Is Not Just Opacity

Background-adaptive contrast enhancement thus becomes part of the object's compositing properties, reducing the design and maintenance of separate color variants, and is implemented in the same WebGL pipeline, with no sustained additional runtime observed.

Chunran Zhang, Tian-Rui Li · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Trust by Design: Trust Calibration Through Non-Advisory Socratic Dialogue in Conversational Agents

As conversational AI systems increasingly operate in sensitive domains, the central challenge shifts from usability to trust calibration, ensuring that users rely on systems neither too much nor too little. Systems that provide advice or interpretations risk encouraging inappropriate reliance, particularly when users p...

R. Hassan, Nahla Aboromi, Naomi Unkelos-Shpigel · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

The CAST-framework: Measure and model social media use as a multi-level phenomenon through real-world applications

This work introduces the CAST framework to connect measurement choices with person-specific models of exposure, behavior, physiology, and experience and proposes four synchronized measurement modules linking mobile and wearable data with self-reports and intervention responses.

D. Grüning, Jasper Doeninghaus, Zina Efchary et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Pulla: A Parsons Problem Tool for Fine-Grained Behavioral Tracing and Instructor-Facing Problem-Solving Analysis

Existing Parsons problem tools primarily focus on correctness, indicating whether a student solved a problem, but providing limited visibility into the underlying problem-solving process. We address this gap by introducing Pulla, a Parsons problem tool that instruments programming assignments to capture fine-grained in...

Daniel Prol, Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas et al. · 0 citations

How do people plan digitally: An in-the-wild investigation of task planning through a smartphone app

An in-the-wild study of task planning using time-stamped logs of 24,265 tasks from 957 users of a widely used daily planner app, observed over six weeks alongside self-reported surveys to support evaluating planning tools across the task lifecycle.

Srija Halder, I. Zimmermann, Linnea Körte et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Towards Scalable Measurement of Durable Skills

Durable skills, such as collaboration, creativity and critical thinking, are instrumental to success in the modern workforce. Yet, measuring these skills remains a persistent challenge. Moreover, because what is not measured is often not taught, these skills are often overlooked in mainstream educational curricula. Des...

Amir Globerson, A. Keeling, Anisha Choudhury et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Can a Neural Encoding Model Replicate an fMRI Visualization Study?

Most knowledge of graphical perception comes from behavioral studies. Understanding from a neural perspective is much more limited due in part to neuroimaging studies' expensiveness and difficulty to conduct. In this paper, we evaluate whether Meta's Tribe V2 neural encoding model can recover neural contrasts from a vi...

Erfan Nasirzadeh Orang, Zack While · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Who Chooses the Artwork? Curatorial Agency and Distributed Intent in Botto

Botto is often described as a decentralized autonomous artist, but its authorship cannot be located in image generation alone. This paper examines Botto as an agentic curatorial system in which generation, ranking, voting, feedback, and minting form a recursive loop. Drawing on Botto's documentation and prior accounts...

Haoting Alexa Yu, Bea S. Wohl · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

When AI Companions Disappear: Relational Continuity and Collective Contestation during China's National AI Regulatory Transition

AI model updates and service withdrawals can disrupt relationships with AI companions, but research has largely examined individual platform events. Less is known about users' responses when multiple providers implement shared national regulations. We examine users' reactions and collective contestation surrounding Chi...

Yunhao Yuan, Kejia Zhang, Yuqi Niu et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Time Machine Experiments: Using Historically-Bounded AI for Inquiry into the Human Mind

Can interacting with someone from 1930, with no knowledge of what happened after, influence a person's perception of the past? People reason about the present against a picture of the past without observing it. The past is reconstructed from memory and testimony, but this reconstruction has been filtered through everyt...

Hiromu Yakura, Robin Schimmelpfennig, Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez 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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