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Who Is Sycophantic to Whom? Confident LLMs, Human Deference, and the Collapse of Trust Calibration

Deepthika S, Pawni Yadav, B. Sankar · 2026-10-22
Research on sycophancy asks whether large language models (LLMs) bend towards what their users want to hear. We ask the reverse question: when an LLM is confident, consistent, and wrong, do users bend towards it? In a within-subjects experiment, 32 participants learned up to five…

Contestable Agents for Data Governance: Recording Human Stewardship of AI-Generated Metadata Across Structured and Unstructured Systems

Humza Akhtar, Brian Freeman · 2026-10-22
Industrial organizations hold operational knowledge in structured records, such as telemetry, point lists, and transactions, and in unstructured sources, such as manuals, service notes, communications, and inspection reports. Governance programs often manage these sources separat…

Supporting or Replacing Students' Reasoning? Cognitive Offloading in AI-Assisted Proof Learning

Eason Chen, Sophia Judicke, Kayla Beigh, Xinyi Tang, Isabel Wang and others · 2026-10-22
We studied 153 students in an undergraduate proof-based mathematics course with staggered-access to an AI support system. Students were randomly assigned to receive an AI chatbot and a homework-feedback interface earlier or later in the course. During the period when only the ear…

How Different, or Different How? Stance Granularity in Viewpoint Selection for Dialog Systems that Engage Users with Alternative Views

Morita Tarvirdians, Reeve Lorena, Catharine Oertel · 2026-10-22
Systems that aim to help a user engage with viewpoints other than their own have to decide how different those viewpoints should be. Viewpoints are mainly represented on a scalar scale, too coarse to distinguish viewpoints that disagree with the user about different things. We in…

In-Browser Human-AI Co-Writing for Counterspeech: An Exploratory User Study of Agency, Perceived Response Quality, and Time

Tammy Schmidt, Luise Koch · 2026-10-22
Writing counterspeech that challenges online hate speech can be cognitively and emotionally demanding, whereas fully automated generation may weaken users' sense of voice and responsibility. We present an in-browser AI-assisted co-writing tool that enables users to contribute the…

Making Generative AI Workable at Work: Accountability, Localization, and Representation in Kenyan and Nigerian Small Businesses

Najeeb Gambo Abdulhamid, Stephanie Nyairo, Liz Ankrah, Jacki O'Neill · 2026-10-22
Generative AI is widely framed as democratizing skilled work by lowering the barrier to producing professional output. Drawing on 21 semi-structured interviews with 27 workers across 21 small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Kenya and Nigeria (July to October 2023), we find …

CoWriter: Guiding Methodological and Synergetic Human-LLM Co-Authoring

Shmuel Amar, Benjamin Lieber, Ori Shapira, Debanjana Kar, Sebastian Maximilian Dennerlein and others · 2026-10-22
While LLMs have transformed text generation, standard chat-and-canvas interfaces often reduce human authoring to quite passive supervision, causing review fatigue, over-reliance on AI, and the sidelining of the human role in long-form, source-grounded writing. Prior systems typic…

PointerBench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Fine-Grained GUI Grounding

Valentino Sacco, Saurabh Pandey, Alexander Florian Jercher, Maximilian Schilling · 2026-10-22
Multimodal Large Language Models have shown promising performance in computer-use tasks, from planning user workflows to grounding natural-language actions to precise UI targets. Existing end-to-end benchmarks primarily emphasize long-horizon task completion, while GUI grounding …

Navigating human-robot interaction challenges in private and residential aged care homes

David Ahmedt-Aristizabal, Mohammad Ali Armin, Akila Pemasiri, Harshala Gammulle, Tharindu Fernando and others · 2026-10-22
This chapter explores how robotic systems and ambient intelligence can enhance care for older adults in residential aged care (RAC) homes and private homes. Although these settings differ, we frame both as extreme and challenging environments for human-robot interaction (HRI), ch…

Adaptive Uncertainty Visualization With jk-Plots

Nikolaus Piccolotto, Daniel Pahr, Laura Lotteraner, Fatih Öztank, Markus Bögl · 2026-10-22
An important task of uncertainty visualizations is to communicate how the number of available observations influences the precision of estimates, such as a Normal distribution's mean. In this paper, we propose an adaptive approach to visualizing univariate data that produces sali…

CARL: Chat Assisted Reinforcement Learning

Sanjiv Das, Harshad Khadilkar, Sukrit Mittal, Daniel Ostrov, Jacob Sisk · 2026-10-22
Failure of applied Reinforcement Learning (RL) to solve a given problem predominantly stems from unaddressed specification gaps, where the intent of human experts in the problem's domain is inaccurately or incompletely translated by AI into mathematical objectives, constraints, a…

Metacognitive Scaffolds Create Productive Friction for AI-Assisted Knowledge Work

Viktor Kewenig, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen · 2026-10-22
Generative AI imposes new metacognitive demands on knowledge workers as their work shifts from production to planning, evaluation, and orchestration. In a randomized, between-subjects experiment on AI-assisted writing (297 workers, 594 essays), we test dynamically-generated metac…

Your Home Remembers: A Voice-Enabled Household Memory Assistant for Conversational Retrieval

Aleix Sant, Jordi Luque, Fernando López, Pablo Gómez, Carlos Escolano · 2026-10-22
Everyday household information is often exchanged in conversations but never written down, making details easy to forget or misremember. We present a voice-enabled smart-home assistant that acts as a household memory by recording conversations and retrieving information from stor…

Working Through Representation: Malleable Workspaces for Human-Agent Knowledge Work

Nan Chen, Long Ling, Luna K. Qiu, Zilong Wang, Yuqing Yang · 2026-10-22
Generative AI supports knowledge work, yet conversational histories may not capture the evolving organization that guides subsequent action. We introduce the Malleable Workspace, a conceptual model of how humans and agents form and revise a Work Representation and use its organiz…

TutorCaseBench: A Case-Grounded Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Tutors in Supporting Students with Challenging Behaviors

Yeon Su Park, Chanyoung Park, Tae Soo Kim, Seungju Kim, Hyunwoo Kim and others · 2026-10-22
LLMs are increasingly used as AI tutors, yet existing benchmarks overlook the challenging behaviors common among students with learning and behavioral difficulties. We introduce TutorCaseBench, a benchmark that grounds AI-tutor evaluation in qualitative case studies from pedagogy…

ABRA: Agent-Bound UI for Human-Agent Communication beyond Chat with Reusable Views

Seon Gyeom Kim, Hannah Kim · 2026-10-22
Agents can create rich representations, yet these representations are rarely used as a medium for expressing user intent. We present Agent-Bound UI, an interaction model that separates reusable interaction structures from task-specific meanings. Agents bind task-specific meanings…

Abstract Priorities, Concrete Rewards: How Stated Preferences Relate to What People Reward in AI Responses

Zihan Chen, Lei Nico Zheng, Di Zhu · 2026-10-22
AI assistants built on large language models (LLMs) are trained on human feedback and increasingly personalized to users' stated preferences. Yet how closely these preferences reflect what people reward in responses remains unclear. We compare stated and revealed preferences in t…

Can Loan Processors and Underwriters Spot AI-Edited Statements? An Empirical Study

Simiao Ren, Xingyu Shen, Tommy Duong, Ankit Raj · 2026-10-22
AI-assisted editing can produce loan documents that preserve familiar issuer layouts while changing the applicant's identity. We investigated whether experienced underwriters and loan processors identify such forgeries in first-pass, document-only review. Three practitioners recr…

Do We Need to "Be There" to Say Goodbye? Comparing Participatory Agency and Spatial Presence Across Digital Farewell Formats

Chan In Sio, Alex Mann, Qian Ming Jia, Lik-Hang Lee · 2026-10-22
Digitally mediated attachment is increasingly common, yet the mechanisms of symbolic closure in hybrid physical--digital relationships remain underexplored. We address an XR design question: how different mediated farewell formats relate to perceived symbolic closure, spatial pre…

Big World, Little Me: Comparing a First-Person VR Walkthrough Video and Static Slides for Communicating Height-Related Accessibility Barriers

Chan In Sio, Alex Mann, Qian Ming Jia, Xuecheng Guo, Yan Zhuo and others · 2026-10-22
People with dwarfism and other forms of short stature may encounter barriers created by fixed-height environments and discriminatory social assumptions. This paper evaluates Big World, Little Me, a 10 min 52 s first-person walkthrough recorded from a Unity-based VR environment. T…

PATH: Preference-Aware Traversability Estimation for Robotic Teleoperation in Off-Road Navigation

Xianghao Meng, Wenshuo Wang, Cheng Shao, Lewei Feng, Qingxiao Liu and others · 2026-10-22
Traversability estimation is critical for ground vehicle teleoperation, yet existing methods often neglect the human operator's preferences for speed and risk tolerance. To address this gap, we propose PATH-Net, a Preference-Aware Traversability estimation Hierarchical Network th…

Impacts of generative AI skill development on academic adaptation and learning outcomes among university students

Lei Fan, Fangxue Liu · 2026-10-22
Understanding how university students perceive the development of their generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) skills over time can clarify how GenAI use relates to learning and academic outcomes. This study examined perceived skill-development trajectories, changes in learni…

Beyond Better Ideas: How Human-AI Collaboration Shapes Scientific Ideas and Human Perceptions

Qian Chen, Saatvik Pradhan, Janice Ahn, Berk Atil, Angkai Li and others · 2026-10-22
As AI increasingly becomes a collaborator in scientific research, its impact may extend beyond improving ideas to reshaping how they are evaluated, attributed, and perceived by humans. Yet existing research has largely examined these dimensions in isolation. We present a unified …

Atlas: Making Sense of Long Horizon Agent Trajectories

Sangho Suh, Joseph Chee Chang, Pao Siangliulue, Amy X. Zhang, Matt Latzke and others · 2026-10-22
AI agents can now search literature, generate hypotheses, analyze datasets, and run experiments at a scale difficult for researchers to match. Yet scaling scientific execution does not automatically scale researchers' ability to make sense of what agents produce. When researchers…

AVAtt: A Free-Viewing Eye-Tracking Dataset and Benchmark for Visual Attention on Paintings

Mohamed Amine Kerkouri, Marouane Tliba, Aladine Chetouani, Alessandro Bruno · 2026-10-21
Saliency and scanpath models are developed almost exclusively on natural photographs, yet paintings are composed by artists to guide the viewer's eye and differ from photographs in texture, colour and abstraction. We introduce \avatt, a free-viewing eye-tracking dataset on \nImag…

X-pressing Intimacy: Mental Health Disclosure After Twitter Acquisition

Olivia Pal, Yunhao Yuan, Meghana Mandava, Talayeh Aledavood, Eshwar Chandrasekharan and others · 2026-10-21
Social media platforms provide spaces for individuals to disclose mental health experiences and seek support, yet how these disclosures evolve during major shifts in platform governance remains unclear. We examine mental health self-disclosure surrounding Elon Musk's October 2022…

Data-Void Exploits in Web-Searching LLMs

Michele Guerra, Wuyeh Jobe, Sanjana Nambiar, Christina Pöpper, Azza Abouzied · 2026-10-21
Web-searching Large Language Models (LLMs) have changed how users seek online information: instead of sifting through ranked lists of links, users read synthesized answers. This shift creates a new LLM vulnerability: a data-void exploit. Disinformers publish their narratives in s…

Exploring spatial configuration and group familiarity when co-watching 360-degree stories in social virtual reality

Portia Wang, Monique Santoso, Yujie Tao, Jeremy Bailenson · 2026-10-21
While traditional cinematic viewing is often characterized as a social experience, engaging with immersive stories is predominantly researched as an individual activity. This mismatch becomes increasingly problematic in social virtual reality (VR), where features designed for typ…

Measurement-Guided Conversion of Laboratory Eye-Tracking Data for VR Authentication

Md Arif Shahriar, Mehedi Hasan Raju, Oleg V. Komogortsev · 2026-10-21
Eye-movement authentication in virtual reality (VR) needs longitudinal training data, yet most such datasets come from lab trackers. We convert lab recordings to a VR headset's signal quality while keeping their eye movement, using only unpaired VR recordings of other people. Mea…

Privacy Preference Controls for Agentic Systems

Shreya Kochar, Peeranat Sugsavanvit, Vidur Gupta, Joseph A. Calandrino, Deepak Kumar and others · 2026-10-21
In response to vast and widespread online tracking, regulators and technologists alike have worked to develop laws and tools that allow people to express their privacy preferences. These measures seek to offer users greater control over the sale and sharing of personal informatio…

The Privacy Paradox Is a Misnomer: Data Under Structural Uncertainty

Ignacio Cofone · 2026-10-21
The infamous privacy paradox refers to the apparent inconsistency between people's stated concern for privacy and their readiness to disclose personal information. This phenomenon has sparked two largely disconnected literatures: one offering experimental evidence of inconsistent…

From Acceptance and Avoidance to Affective Viscosity: Designing Social Agents Intermediating in Human Relationships

Tomoko Yonezawa · 2026-10-21
As social agents become embedded in human relationships, they are expected not only to provide smooth assistance but also to handle rejection, discomfort, jealousy, persistence, and other forms of social tension. This paper connects two research directions: acceptance and avoidan…

The Serendiptionnaire: a Questionnaire for Measuring Experienced Serendipity

Brett Binst, Annelien Smets · 2026-10-21
Serendipity is important to design for, yet it remains difficult to measure and evaluate. No validated questionnaire exists, so studies either borrow ResQue's novelty scale, which does not measure serendipity, or build their own items, which makes findings hard to compare and syn…

VIRA-Bench: Diagnosing Pedagogical Contingency Understanding in Online Tutoring Videos

Weihang Wang, Hansu Gu, Guanming Liu, Peng Zhang, Ning Gu and others · 2026-10-21
Understanding a one-to-one tutoring video requires more than recognizing its events. A model must connect a visible teacher intervention to the learner response it elicits and to the follow-up adjusted to that response. Existing video and educational-dialogue benchmarks typically…

Beyond Small Talk: Modeling Disclosure Trajectories in Human-AI Conversation

Keith Kwok, Wanting Ning, Tej Deep Pala, Desmond C. Ong, S. Supraja and others · 2026-10-21
Recently, we see a rise in conversational agents as a form of social and emotional support, where disclosure will unfold over time. Yet, current evaluations of these agents typically examine isolated conversational states. In analyses of naturally occurring conversations, disclos…

A Stratified Multi-Rater Evaluation of LLM-Based Virtual Standardized Patients with a Deployed Data-Generation Platform

Yongjin Yi, Jinyong Park, Sejoong Kim · 2026-10-21
The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is widely used to assess clinical communication skills in medical education, requiring trainees to take histories and reason clinically with standardized patients (SPs). Large language model (LLM)-based virtual standardized pat…

Measuring undergraduate students' reliance on generative AI during problem-solving: Scale development and validation

Chenyu Hou, Gaoxia Zhu, Vidya Sudarshan, Fun Siong Lim, Yew Soon Ong · 2026-10-21
Reliance on AI describes the behavioral patterns of when and how individuals depend on AI suggestions, and appropriate reliance patterns are necessary to achieve effective human-AI collaboration. Traditional measures often link reliance to decision-making outcomes, which may not …

Preference Is Not Permission: Personalizing the Auto-Purchase Line in Agentic Commerce

Ryotaro Shimizu, Sai HtaungKham, Mo Fan · 2026-10-21
Personalized shopping benchmarks ask which item fits the user; we ask how far an agent may commit on that item, and pose learning the individual's auto-purchase line as a task. The boundary is evidence-conditioned and three-valued: whether committing is appropriate depends on the…

Motivation and Contribution in Open Source Software: A Meta-Analytic Investigation

Parisa Omidmand, Saeed Nosratabadi · 2026-10-21
Research on why people contribute to open source software (OSS) and related open collaboration platforms spans more than two decades, but its findings conflict, and studies often treat the work people contribute and their intention to keep contributing as interchangeable. Drawing…

From AI-Free Gates to AI-First Work: How Engineering Students in India Navigate University Education and Campus Placements Without AI Guidelines

Samhitha Goutham, Ziwei Gu · 2026-10-21
Engineering graduates in India enter a technology sector that is being reshaped by generative AI, yet the route into that sector runs through examinations and campus placement screens that largely exclude AI. Institutions in India have an approved intake of nearly 2.9 million sea…

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