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#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Exploring 3D Glyph Physicalizations for Public Engagement through River Health

Introduction: In this paper, we present the preliminary design of a toolkit for making glyph-based physicalizations for public engagement. We use London river health data as a case study: a data set of significance to urban issues related to climate change and of interest to draw public attention, as part of the Greate...

Maria Teresa Ortoleva, Min Chen, Rita Borgo et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

"It's Like Drinking from a Fire Hose": Understanding and Characterizing Video Learning Experiences for Individuals with ADHD

Video lectures have become increasingly prevalent for education and professional development, yet their static visuals, dense information, and long duration pose attentional challenges for individuals with ADHD. While adaptive learning offers opportunities towards ADHD-accessible video learning, little is known about h...

Hanxiu 'Hazel' Zhu, Weiyu Zhang, Ru Wang et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Agentic Web Accessibility Auditing: A Criterion-Specific Framework for Translating WCAG Requirements into Assessments

Web accessibility auditing requires interpreting diverse requirements and examining interface behavior. Rule-based checks and noninteractive model assessments can miss barriers requiring contextual or interactive evidence. We present an agentic framework that assigns a vision-language agent to each accessibility requir...

Arjun Mishra, P. Karthik, Byungjun Bae et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Echoes in the Algorithm: Analyzing the Fidelity of User Preferences Against Realized Platform Reach

What does popular content look like when platforms withhold the usual cues? On TikTok, users still form impressions about which videos are taking off even when likes and view counts are hidden, delayed, or pushed to the margins of the interface. We study this problem through TokOrNot, a web-based game in which particip...

Emelia Hughes, Tim Weninger · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Where Does the Human End? Creative Agency with Generative AI across Five Years of Chinese Digital Painting

A five-year interview study with 17 Chinese digital painters, based on annual semi-structured interviews from 2021 to 2025, frames these accounts as longitudinal agency partitioning, the situated work of deciding which stages, responsibilities, values, and claims remain human in creative human-agent interaction.

Yi-Bo Meng, Rui-Qi Chen, Shu-Heng Cao et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Early Epistemic Settlement in AI-Assisted Writing

A language model can resolve a writer's current organizing problem while the construction needed for her own resolution remains unfinished. I call this early epistemic settlement. The supplied organization meets every demand then governing the passage, yet proceeding from it can displace work through which the writer w...

Han-yu Wang · 0 citations

Ephemeral Feeds and Enduring Rituals: RushTok and the Formation of Event-Based Algorithmic Communities

RushTok is examined as an event-based algorithmic community: a collective assembled around a bounded offline ritual and sustained by recommendation that outlines implications for platform governance, including time-bounded context, graduated visibility, and aftercare.

E. Hughes, Tim Weninger · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Beyond Top Words: MonoTM for Topic Modeling with Interpretable Monosemantic Features

Topic models summarize large text corpora, but top-ranked words often provide only a limited representation of topic semantics. Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) offer a way to move beyond word-level descriptors by extracting interpretable features from dense representations, yet how feature interpretability relates to topic-...

Una Joh, Bei-Yang Yu · 0 citations

The Mutations of Machine Speech

This piece bridges the gap between observing technological transformation and critically assessing the constitutive role of law within it, offering a conceptual resource for researchers, students, policymakers, and practitioners navigating and contesting this evolving landscape.

Mauricio Figueroa · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

"What Are You Really Trying to Do?": Co-Creating Life Goals from Everyday Computer Use

Recent advances in user modeling make it feasible to conduct open-ended inference over a person's everyday computer use. Despite longstanding visions of systems that deeply understand our actions and the purposes they serve in our lives, existing systems only capture what a person is doing in the moment, not why they a...

Shardul Sapkota, Matthew J\"orke, Zane Sabbagh et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Cognitive Amplification vs Cognitive Delegation in Human-AI Systems: A Metric Framework

Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in human decision-making, yet distinguishing systems that genuinely amplify human cognition from those promoting excessive dependence remains underdefined. This paper introduces a framework to distinguish cognitive amplification (improving hybrid performance without degr...

Eduardo Di Santi · 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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