KnitARobo: Industrial Machine Knitting of Electromechanical Textile Interfaces with Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fibers
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dear___: Ephemeral Reveal for Interactive Absence in Personal Photo Archives
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Long-term Ultrasound-Enhanced Convective Injection Device for Neural Drug Delivery
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AI Localism - Counter Imaginaries from City AI Governance
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NETs: Networked Stretchable and Scalable Sensing System for Multimodal Wearables and Interactive Surfaces
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Sustaining the benefits of live music engagement: immediate and enduring influences of awe at Carnegie Hall’s Well-Being Concerts
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Socrates went Nuclear: Comparing Interaction Strategies for AI systems in a Learning Context using Brain Sensing
Alexandre Clin Deffarges, Nataliya Kosmyna and Pattie Maes. Socrates went Nuclear: Comparing Interaction Strategies for AI systems in a Learning Context using Brain Sensing. To appear in Proceedings of The 14th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Osaka, Japan, November 16, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1145/3841580.3841620
RLX: A Unified Multi-Backend Tensor Compiler and Distributed Runtime in Rust
Eugene Hauptmann and Nataliya Kosmyna. RLX: A Unified Multi-Backend Tensor Compiler and Distributed Runtime in Rust. To appear in 2026 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC).
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Putting the Lab back into Fab Lab
Towards Closed-Loop Chemical Interfaces: Sensing Mood and Modulating Physiology Through Wearable Systems
Beyond Majority: Common Ground in Human and AI Decision Systems
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On-device deep learning for real-time acoustic monitoring of endangered Bombus dahlbomii and invasive congeners
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The Andorra Scenario Engine: A Data-Grounded Framework for Policy-Oriented National Development Planning
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Capable language models can outgrow the benefits of collaboration
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Ancestral Craft and Emerging Technologies: Designing Futures from Place
Gabriela Bila Advincula and Jonny Cohen. 2026. Ancestral Craft and Emerging Technologies: Designing Futures from Place. In Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Spatial Storytelling (SIGGRAPH Spatial Storytelling '26), July 19--23, 2026, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA 3 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3799822.3812473
“Who are you, the feelings machine?!”
Ila Krishna Kumar, Sara Inácio, and Carrie Hyde-Riley. 2026. “Who are you, the feelings machine?!”: Using digital technology to support self-directed creative emotional expression among individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In Creativity and Cognition (C&C ’26), July 13–16, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3803784.
Rock Talk: An AI-Mediated Community Garden for Collective Reflection and Purpose Finding
Cassandra Lee, Chuanqi Sun, and Saetbyeol LeeYouk. 2026. Rock Talk: An AI-Mediated Community Garden for Collective Reflection and Purpose Finding. In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1236–1240. https://doi.org/10.1145/3803784.3809268
Multi-Turn Neural Transparency: Surfacing Neural Activations Improves User Calibration to LLM Behavioral Drift
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CityScope Guadalajara: An Integrative City-Science-Based Tool for Improving Decision Making in Urban Planning
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Portable, Real-time 3D Ultrasound for Operator-independent Breast Imaging
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Reconfigurable Inflatables Through Controlled Surface Crumpling
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Electrospun Fields: 3D Nano-Fiber Material Computation as Design Method
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Enhancing Expressive Musical Conversation in the jam_bot
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CultureScore: Evaluating Cultural Faithfulness in Video Generation Models
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My Digital Twin Walks the City: Decisional Symmetry in Human—Agent Urban Navigation
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Real-Time 3D Ultrasound in Augmented Reality Accelerates Training and Narrows Novice–Expert Performance Gaps
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Making Sense of Sensors: Improving LLM Interpretation of Time-Series Data
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Creating a Popular Foundation for the Bio-Age
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PAiNT: Perspective-Aware AI Identity and Narrative Toolkit for Generating Labeled Digital Footprints (Submitted)
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Imaging hidden objects with consumer LiDAR via motion-induced sampling
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Unravelling global patterns of drought-flood alternations
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Imagine, Don’t Narrate: The Generative Bottleneck in World Models of Interaction Dynamics (Preprint)
Daniel Platnick, Marjan Alirezaie and Hossein Rahnama
Heritable immunization of mice against Lyme disease enables ecological disease prevention
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Deceptive explanations by large language models lead people to change their beliefs about misinformation more often than honest explanations
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