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#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2025

Mind Your Ps and Qs: Positive Moderation Practice in the Positive Queue

The Positive Queue is introduced as a positive counterpart to Reddit's modqueue: a dedicated space for moderators to discover contributions and behaviors they want to encourage and positively reinforce, and conceptualize positive moderation as recognition infrastructure that shapes what moderators notice, whose judgmen...

Charlotte Lambert, Agam Goyal, Eunice Mok et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Beyond the Personal Assistant: How Expectations for Enterprise AI in Teamwork Diverged as Generative AI Took Shape, 2023-2025

HCI often draws on users' articulated needs and expectations to explore design opportunities for emerging technologies. Yet, these accounts are shaped by how technologies take form over time. We examine this dynamic through a two-phase interview study of enterprise AI in a project-based software development organizatio...

Qing Xiao, Xinlan Emily Hu, Mark E. Whiting et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Feb 2025

Bringing Religious Values Into Design: How Theologians and Engineers See the Same Patterns Differently

The results suggest that differences in both experience with values and professional domain can impact how values are translated into designs, and that while software engineers did not misunderstand the principles, theologians had a broader understanding.

L. Conwill, Megan K. Levis, Karla A. Badillo-Urquiola et al. · 3 citations
#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, A. 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

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 5, 2026

Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit

AI agents can generate code at a scale that’s hard for humans to review line-by-line. PDD Kit helps ensure the code is doing what the developer intended by creating formal specifications and testing against them. It converts developer intent into a Verus specification, proves AI-generated code meets it for every input, and uses tests where proofs aren't practical. Developers review intent, not every line. The post Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit appeared first o…

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 28, 2026

Making machines that can listen

Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 23, 2026

Reinforcing the value of human understanding at MIT

During the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, President Sally Kornbluth said “MIT has never needed your particular insight and guidance more than we do now.”

MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 23, 2026

Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind

Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.

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