#Human-Computer Interaction

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• 🇺🇸 Sierra’s Bret Taylor says the era of clicking buttons is over — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Co-founder of Sierra predicts that AI agents will make software interfaces obsolete.

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Technology Futures
• 🇺🇸 Multi-Faceted Self-Consistent Preference Alignment for Query Rewriting in Conversational Search — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.06771v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational Query Rewriting (CQR) aims to rewrite ambiguous queries to achieve more efficient conversational search. Early studies have predominan...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Information Retrieval
• 🇺🇸 Negotiating Privacy with Smart Voice Assistants: Risk-Benefit and Control-Acceptance Tensions — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.06235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Smart Voice assistants (SVAs) are widely adopted by youth, yet privacy decision-making in these environments is often characterized by competing cons...

  Related: #Digital Privacy, #Youth Technology Use
• 🇺🇸 Say Something Else: Rethinking Contextual Privacy as Information Sufficiency — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.06409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents increasingly draft messages on behalf of users, yet users routinely overshare sensitive information and disagree on what counts as private...

  Related: #AI Ethics, #Data Privacy
• 🇺🇸 AV-SQL: Decomposing Complex Text-to-SQL Queries with Agentic Views — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.07041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-SQL is the task of translating natural language queries into executable SQL for a given database, enabling non-expert users to access structu...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Database Technology
• 🇺🇸 STRIDE-ED: A Strategy-Grounded Stepwise Reasoning Framework for Empathetic Dialogue Systems — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.07100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Empathetic dialogue requires not only recognizing a user's emotional state but also making strategy-aware, context-sensitive decisions throughout res...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Natural Language Processing
• 🇺🇸 Mixed-Initiative Context: Structuring and Managing Context for Human-AI Collaboration — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.07121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the human-AI collaboration area, the context formed naturally through multi-turn interactions is typically flattened into a chronological sequence...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Software Design
• 🇺🇸 Multi-modal user interface control detection using cross-attention — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.06934v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Detecting user interface (UI) controls from software screenshots is a critical task for automated testing, accessibility, and software analytics, yet...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Computer Vision
• 🇺🇸 HingeMem: Boundary Guided Long-Term Memory with Query Adaptive Retrieval for Scalable Dialogues — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.06845v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term memory is critical for dialogue systems that support continuous, sustainable, and personalized interactions. However, existing methods rely...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Natural Language Processing
• 🇺🇸 AdaZoom-GUI: Adaptive Zoom-based GUI Grounding with Instruction Refinement — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.17441v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GUI grounding is a critical capability for vision-language models (VLMs) that enables automated interaction with graphical user interfaces by locatin...

  Related: #AI in GUI
• 🇺🇸 Informative Semi-Factuals for XAI: The Elaborated Explanations that People Prefer — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.17534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, in eXplainable AI (XAI), $\textit{even if}$ explanations -- so-called semi-factuals -- have emerged as a popular strategy that explains how a...

  Related: #Explainable AI
• 🇺🇸 The Midas Touch in Gaze vs. Hand Pointing: Modality-Specific Failure Modes and Implications for XR Interfaces — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.15991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Extended Reality (XR) interfaces impose both ergonomic and cognitive demands, yet current systems often force a binary choice between hand-based inpu...

  Related: #Extended Reality
• 🇺🇸 AI Phenomenology for Understanding Human-AI Experiences Across Eras — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.09020v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: There is no 'ordinary' when it comes to AI. The human-AI experience is extraordinarily complex and specific to each person, yet dominant measures suc...

  Related: #AI Philosophy
• 🇺🇸 HumanMCP: A Human-Like Query Dataset for Evaluating MCP Tool Retrieval Performance — 02/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.23367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers contain a collection of thousands of open-source standardized tools, linking LLMs to external systems; however, ex...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Dataset Development
• 🇺🇸 A robot arm with puppy dog eyes is just one of Lenovo’s new desktop AI concepts — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  Alongside a handful of new laptop concepts (and a range of real products too), Lenovo used MWC to announce a pair of AI-based productivity companion concepts. Both are standalone desk devices designed...

  Related: #AI Technology, #Productivity
• 🇺🇸 EyeLayer: Integrating Human Attention Patterns into LLM-Based Code Summarization — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.22368v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Code summarization is the task of generating natural language descriptions of source code, which is critical for software comprehension and maintenan...

  Related: #AI Research, #Software Engineering
• 🇺🇸 Toward Personalized LLM-Powered Agents: Foundations, Evaluation, and Future Directions — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.22680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have enabled agents that reason, plan, and interact with tools and environments to accomplish complex tasks. As these agents oper...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Personalization
• 🇺🇸 When Should an AI Act? A Human-Centered Model of Scene, Context, and Behavior for Agentic AI Design — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.22814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI increasingly intervenes proactively by inferring users' situations from contextual data yet often fails for lack of principled judgment abou...

  Related: #AI Ethics, #AI Decision Making
• 🇺🇸 CoLyricist: Enhancing Lyric Writing with AI through Workflow-Aligned Support — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.22606v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose CoLyricist, an AI-assisted lyric writing tool designed to support the typical workflows of experienced lyricists and enhance their creativ...

  Related: #AI in Creative Fields, #Creative Workflow Enhancement
• 🇺🇸 ConceptRM: The Quest to Mitigate Alert Fatigue through Consensus-Based Purity-Driven Data Cleaning for Reflection Modelling — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.20166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In many applications involving intelligent agents, the overwhelming volume of alerts (mostly false) generated by the agents may desensitize users and...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Data Science
• 🇺🇸 MoEMba: A Mamba-based Mixture of Experts for High-Density EMG-based Hand Gesture Recognition — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2502.17457v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: High-Density surface Electromyography (HDsEMG) has emerged as a pivotal resource for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), offering direct insigh...

  Related: #Signal Processing, #Machine Learning
• 🇺🇸 The Initial Exploration Problem in Knowledge Graph Exploration — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.21066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge Graphs (KGs) enable the integration and representation of complex information across domains, but their semantic richness and structural comp...

  Related: #Knowledge Graphs, #User Experience, #Information Architecture
• 🇺🇸 Examining and Addressing Barriers to Diversity in LLM-Generated Ideas — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.20408v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ideas generated by independent samples of humans tend to be more diverse than ideas generated from independent LLM samples, raising concerns that wid...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Innovation
• 🇺🇸 What Drives Students' Use of AI Chatbots? Technology Acceptance in Conversational AI — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.20547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational AI tools have been rapidly adopted by students and are becoming part of their learning routines. To understand what drives this adopti...

  Related: #Technology Acceptance, #Educational Technology
• 🇺🇸 Hybrid LLM-Embedded Dialogue Agents for Learner Reflection: Designing Responsive and Theory-Driven Interactions — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.20486v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dialogue systems have long supported learner reflections, with theoretically grounded, rule-based designs offering structured scaffolding but often s...

  Related: #Educational Technology, #AI in Education
• 🇺🇸 SparkMe: Adaptive Semi-Structured Interviewing for Qualitative Insight Discovery — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.21136v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Qualitative insights from user experiences are critical for informing product and policy decisions, but collecting such data at scale is constrained ...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Research Methodology
• 🇺🇸 MindPower: Enabling Theory-of-Mind Reasoning in VLM-based Embodied Agents — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2511.23055v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Theory of Mind (ToM) refers to the ability to infer others' mental states, such as beliefs, desires, and intentions. Current vision-language embodi...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Cognitive Computing
• 🇺🇸 ShaRP: Shape-Regularized Multidimensional Projections — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2306.00554v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Projections, or dimensionality reduction methods, are techniques of choice for the visual exploration of high-dimensional data. Many such techniques ...

  Related: #Data Visualization, #Dimensionality Reduction
• 🇺🇸 The Bots of Persuasion: Examining How Conversational Agents' Linguistic Expressions of Personality Affect User Perceptions and Decisions — 20/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.17185v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model-powered conversational agents (CAs) are increasingly capable of projecting sophisticated personalities through language, but how...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Conversational Agents, #User Perception, #Behavioral Influence
• 🇺🇸 MyoInteract: A Framework for Fast Prototyping of Biomechanical HCI Tasks using Reinforcement Learning — 18/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.15245v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL)-based biomechanical simulations have the potential to revolutionise HCI research and interaction design, but currently la...

  Related: #Biomechanics and Kinematics, #Reinforcement Learning, #Simulation and Modelling, #Design Prototyping