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Human-Computer Interaction

Research on user interfaces, interaction design, accessibility, and UX.

cs.HC · 436 papers

Can providing feedback on gaze and mental-effort synchrony improve pair programming performance?

AI feedback on gaze and mental effort synchrony significantly improves pair programming performance, with proactive timing being most effective.

2605.05836May 7, 2026Anahita Golrang, Kshitij Sharma

GazeMind: A Gaze-Guided LLM Agent for Personalized Cognitive Load Assessment

GazeMind is a gaze-guided LLM agent for personalized, interpretable cognitive load assessment on smart glasses, outperforming baselines by over 20%.

2605.05790May 7, 2026Bin Wang, Yue Liu, Benjamin Newman +9

Priming, Path-dependence, and Plasticity: Understanding the molding of user-LLM interaction and its implications from (many) chat logs in the wild

This paper analyzes 140K LLM chat logs, revealing that user interaction patterns stabilize rapidly, leading to less exploration despite open input.

2605.05767May 7, 2026Shengqi Zhu, Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski, David Mimno

Closing the Loop: Unified 3D Scene Generation and Immersive Interaction via LLM-RL Coupling

This paper unifies language-driven 3D scene generation with immersive user interaction using LLMs and RL, enabling adaptive VR experiences.

2605.05711May 7, 2026Anh H. Vo, Sungyo Lee, Phil-Joong Kim +2

PersonaTeaming: Supporting Persona-Driven Red-Teaming for Generative AI

PersonaTeaming introduces persona-driven red-teaming, enhancing both automated and human-AI collaborative methods for identifying generative AI risks.

2605.05682May 7, 2026Wesley Hanwen Deng, Mingxi Yan, Sunnie S. Y. Kim +5

The Capacity to Care: Designing Social Technology for Sustained Engagement With Societal Challenges

This paper explores how social media design hinders sustained engagement with societal challenges and proposes designs for 'sustainable care'.

2605.05651May 7, 2026JaeWon Kim, Lindsay Popowski, Louisa Conwill +12

The Missing Evaluation Axis: What 10,000 Student Submissions Reveal About AI Tutor Effectiveness

This paper introduces a new evaluation framework for AI tutors, focusing on student behavioral responses to feedback using over 10,000 code submissions.

2605.05648May 7, 2026Rose Niousha, Samantha Boatright Smith, Bita Akram +5

UX in the Age of AI: Rethinking Evaluation Metrics Through a Statistical Lens

This paper introduces ADUX-Stat, a novel statistical framework to evaluate user experience in AI systems, addressing limitations of traditional metrics.

2605.05600May 7, 2026Harish Vijayakumar

Tailoring Scaffolding to Diagnostic Strategies: Theory-Informed LLM-Based Agents

This paper proposes a KLI-informed hybrid LLM agent that adapts scaffolding based on a learner's diagnostic strategy for improved learning.

2605.04996May 6, 2026Fatma Betul Gures, Tanya Nazaretsky, Tanja Kaser

To Fuse or to Drop? Dual-Path Learning for Resolving Modality Conflicts in Multimodal Emotion Recognition

DCR is a dual-path framework that intelligently fuses or drops modalities to resolve conflicts in multimodal emotion recognition, improving robustness.

2605.04877May 6, 2026Yangchen Yu, Qian Chen, Jia Li +5

Not All Scaffolds Are Equal: How Initiation Mode Determines EMME Effectiveness in Debugging

This study finds that human-initiated Eye Movement Modeling Examples (EMME) are more effective than automated triggers for novice programmers debugging.

2605.04868May 6, 2026Anahita Golrang, Kshitij Sharma, Halszka Jarodzka +1

RTMS: A Real-Time Multimodal Scaffolding System for Improving Debugging in Computing Education

A real-time multimodal system (RTMS) uses cognitive load and stress indicators to provide adaptive feedback, significantly improving debugging for students.

2605.04848May 6, 2026Anahita Golrang, Kshitij Sharma

Patterns of Developer Adoption of LLM-Generated Code Refactoring Suggestions

This paper analyzes how developers adopt LLM-generated code refactoring suggestions, finding most are accepted, with major changes following five patterns.

2605.04835May 6, 2026David Schön, Faiza Amjad, Tehreem Asif +4

Building AI Companions that Prioritise Learning over Performance

This paper proposes AI learning companions designed to prioritize genuine learning and cognitive growth over immediate task performance in education.

2605.04816May 6, 2026Hassan Khosravi, Dragan Gasevic, Shazia Sadiq +7

OpenWatch: A Multimodal Benchmark for Hand Gesture Recognition on Smartwatches

OpenWatch introduces a multimodal benchmark for smartwatch hand gesture recognition, along with novel methods (MixToken, NormWear-Lora) and key findings.

2605.04791May 6, 2026Pietro Bonazzi, Youssef Ahmed, Daniel Eckert +4

Gaze4HRI: Zero-shot Benchmarking Gaze Estimation Neural-Networks for Human-Robot Interaction

Gaze4HRI introduces a large-scale benchmark for zero-shot gaze estimation in HRI, revealing current methods' failures and highlighting data diversity as key to robustness.

2605.04770May 6, 2026Berk Sezer, Ali Görkem Küçük, Erol Şahin +1

Cognitive Twins: Investigating Personalized Thinking Model Building and Its Performance Enhancement with Human-in-the-Loop

This paper introduces a Personalized Thinking Model (PTM) for AI education, building cognitive twins from learner journals with LLMs and HITL refinement.

2605.04761May 6, 2026Wu-Yuin Hwang, Nur Alif Ilyasa, Muhammad Irfan Luthfi +1

3D Printing of Passively Actuated Self-Folding Robots with Integrated Functional Modules

A 3D printing method creates passively actuated, self-folding robots from conductive PLA nets, integrating electronics and a predictive folding model.

2605.04757May 6, 2026Gaolin Ge, Qifeng Yang, Haoran Lu +3

AICoFe: Implementation and Deployment of an AI-Based Collaborative Feedback System for Higher Education

AICoFe is an AI-based system for higher education that improves peer feedback quality using a multi-LLM pipeline and teacher-in-the-loop curation.

2605.04740May 6, 2026Alvaro Becerra, Alejandra Palma, Ruth Cobos

AISSA: Implementation and Deployment of an AI-based Student Slides Analysis tool for Academic Presentations

AISSA is an AI-powered web tool using LLMs and analytics to provide scalable, rubric-based feedback on student presentation slides.

2605.04729May 6, 2026Alvaro Becerra, Diego Gomez, Ruth Cobos
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