Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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IUI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

"Un-default" Behavior Tuning: Specifying Model Behavior outside the Norm with LLM Self-Playing and Self-Improving

Specifying model behavior is challenging—especially when the desired behavior is unpopular relative to the model’s training data. Reversing the influence of massive training corpora is both time-consuming and costly, and such interventions are typically inaccessible to end users. While Large Language Models (LLMs) mak…

IUI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

The Shape of My-AI: How Multimodality Shapes Trust and Persuasion in Interactions with an AI-Generated Future Self

AI-generated future selves allow people to engage in dialogue with a personalized digital representation of themselves decades ahead, yet it remains unclear how presentation modality shapes their psychological impact. We report a randomized between-subjects study (n=92) comparing three modalities of an AI-generated fu…

IUI '26Generative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +4

Mind Mapper: Modeling and Predicting Behavioral Patterns from Everyday Conversations with Wearable AI Systems and LLMs

Everyday conversations are more than exchanges of words—they reveal how people think, react, and adapt across situations. Through our speech we reveal the cognitive patterns that shape our behavior over time. Yet much of these patterns remains implicit: people operate through recurring heuristics and habits—some helpf…

IUI '26Music Composition & Sound Design Tools +2

Agents in Concert: A Case-Study of Bringing AI to the Stage in Practice

Recent years have seen a surge in musical performances accompanied by generative agents. Artificial voices, timbres synthesized by neural networks, and agents that mirror or respond to human performers are rapidly taking the stage. In parallel, practitioners in human-computer interaction (HCI) and music technology hav…

IUI '26AI-Assisted Writing & Text Generation +4

RankCut: A Ranking-Based LLM Approach to Extractive Summarization for Transcript-Based Video Editing

Video recordings of interviews, lectures, and meetings contain valuable moments surrounded by less essential talk. Making a shareable and meaningful shorter version of this content requires significant effort because it combines tedious, repeated operations with personal editorial decisions, which require human judgme…

IUI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Strategic Tradeoffs Between Humans and AI in Multi-Agent Bargaining

Markets increasingly accommodate large language models (LLMs) as autonomous decision-making agents. As this transition occurs, it becomes critical to evaluate how these agents behave relative to their human and task-specific statistical predecessors. In this work, we present results from an empirical study comparing h…

IUI '26Explainable AI (XAI) +4

Neural Transparency: Mechanistic Interpretability Interfaces for Anticipating Model Behaviors for Personalized AI

Millions of users now design personalized LLM-based chatbots through system prompts that shape their daily interactions, yet have limited ability to anticipate how these design choices will manifest as behaviors in deployment. This opacity is consequential: seemingly innocuous prompts can trigger excessive sycophancy,…

IUI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

CAIM: Development and Evaluation of a Cognitive AI Memory Framework for Long-Term Interaction with Intelligent Agents

Large language models (LLMs) have advanced the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and are a powerful enabler for interactive systems. However, they still face challenges in long-term interactions that require adaptation towards the user as well as contextual knowledge and an understanding of the ever-changing envir…

CHI '26Honorable MentionSocial Robot Interaction +4

Privacy is Not One-Click: Designing Robots That Adapt to Older Adults’ Changing Boundaries

Social robots in the home bring new privacy risks and concerns for older adults. Yet, current technology privacy mechanisms typically use a one-time and universal consent mechanism (e.g., user agreement checkbox, browser cookie setting, etc.), lacking consideration of how privacy is holistically experienced. Designing…

CHI '26Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Human-AI Narrative Synthesis to Foster Shared Understanding in Civic Decision-Making

Community engagement processes in representative political contexts, like school districts, generate massive volumes of feedback that overwhelm traditional synthesis methods, creating barriers to shared understanding not only between civic leaders and constituents but also among community members. To address these bar…

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AI & Machine Learning Interaction

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Fabrication, 3D Printing & Physical Computing

Desktop 3D Printing & Personal Fabrication

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Participatory Design

Gesture, Body & Motion Interaction

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