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MORA: Designing an AI-Mediated Role-Playing System for Child-Caregiver Speech Sound Practice

MORA, an AI-mediated role-playing story-based system in which target-bearing words recur as characters, locations, and props, eliciting productions under two response constraints while retaining recordings for clinician review is presented.

Su-Min Hong, Yi-Nuo Yang, Jia-Wen Li et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Sep 2026

Rethinking Legibility in Social Robot Hallway Navigation: Impact of Intent Representation and Human Distraction

It is suggested that effective legible motion in social robot navigation benefits from interaction-level intent representations that support coordination, with some effects persisting even when human attention is divided.

Pranav Goyal, Andrew Stratton, Christoforos Mavrogiannis · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DuplexAct-Bench: Broadening Full-Duplex Speech Evaluation toward Proactive Interaction across Diverse Behavioral Requirements

Existing full-duplex speech benchmarks cover only subsets of real-time interaction behaviors, often under limited contextual conditions. We introduce DuplexAct-Bench, a bilingual benchmark that systematically covers six complementary behaviors, from interruption and yielding to proactive initiation, active silence, and...

Keyue Xing, Wentao Ding, Mengmeng Wang et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Perceptual Color Difference Modeling Using Machine Learning and Human Similarity Judgments

Accurate assessment of color differences is essential for applications ranging from digital design to quality control. While existing color difference metrics, such as CIEDE2000, aim to approximate human perception, they may still exhibit inconsistencies with perceptual judgments. In this study, we investigate a data-d...

Elnara Kadyrgali, Muragul Muratbekova, Adilet Yerkin et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

DiFF: Doppler-informed Flow Matching for Human Motion Flow

Perceiving human motion via privacy-preserving 4D millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar is critical for next-generation human-robot interaction (HRI), where point cloud scene flow serves as a foundational motion representation. Yet the extreme sparsity and noise of 4D radar point clouds make non-rigid motion flow estimation s...

Kai Wang, Ming-Le Zhao · 0 citations

Breaking News Out of the Filter Bubble: Generative AI Search Diversifies Collective Attention and Raises Shared Information Consumption

Generative AI search and AI overviews are transforming access to information and news, renewing concerns that readers will encounter a narrower range of topics and have less in common. We examine these concerns via a randomized field experiment with 37,561 readers at The Washington Post. Both groups searched the same a...

Heeseung Andrew Lee, Dok-Yun Lee, Gwanhoo Lee et al. · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

A barrier or a booster? Familiarity effects on Mandarin emotion prosody recognition using AI-powered voice cloning

Emotion prosody perception requires simultaneous processing of acoustic cues and speaker identity. While listeners effortlessly decode natural speech, AI synthetic voices introduce cognitive complexities due to subtle acoustic atypicalities. It remains unclear how these synthetic features interact with a listener's pri...

Feng-Yi Xu, Gao-Yuan Zhang, Shan-Shan Xue et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Open access Oct 2026

AIfred: Augmented Learning through Functional Robotic Embodiment at the Desk

Desk-based learning and creative activities benefit from handwritten engagement. However, current generative AI tools deliver guidance through a separate screen, creating a gap between where users think and where assistance appears. To address this, in this work we design AIfred, a desk-based robotic arm with a project...

Gregorio Orlando, Milan Groshev, Eduardo Castell\'o Ferrer · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EPIC: Epipolar-Consistent 360{\deg} Immersive Stereo Video Generation

Immersive displays can enable rich and diverse virtual experiences. Manually authoring every possible experience to realize this potential, however, is prohibitively expensive, difficult to scale, and impractical. Generative AI models could remove this bottleneck, but today's models are built for conventional displays...

Debabrata Mandal, Dongdong Fu, Jonathon Miller et al. · 0 citations

Recursive Organization Improvement: A Modeling Specification for Human--Agent Organizations

Stronger AI agents do not automatically produce better organizations: teams must also learn which work arrangements to retain and when to reconsider them, while those arrangements determine what evidence the team can learn from. We propose a modeling specification for recursive organization improvement and evaluate it...

Zi-Long Wang · 0 citations
#human-computer interacti... Preprint Sep 2026

Navigating the Changing Landscape of Online Knowledge Consumption and Production in the Age of Generative AI: Evidence from Stack Overflow

Online knowledge communities rely on a division of epistemic labor between users who seek information and those who produce it. Generative AI may blur these roles, but how it reallocates knowledge-seeking and knowledge-producing activities and reshapes the nature and returns of participation remains unclear. We examine...

Ji Eun Kim, Léa Vitale, Libby Hemphill 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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