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Digital educational technologies offer the potential to customize students' experiences and learn what works for which students, enhancing the technology as more students interact with it. We consider whether and when attempting to discover…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-07 ZhaoBin Li , Luna Yee , Nathaniel Sauerberg , Irene Sakson , Joseph Jay Williams , Anna N. Rafferty

Sustaining the effectiveness of behavior change technologies remains a key challenge. AI self-modeling, which generates personalized portrayals of one's ideal self, has shown promise for motivating behavior change, yet prior work largely…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Qing He , Zeyu Wang , Yuzhou Du , Jiahuan Ding , Yuanchun Shi , Yuntao Wang

Interactive AI systems, such as recommendation engines and virtual assistants, commonly use static user profiles and predefined rules to personalize interactions. However, these methods often fail to capture the dynamic nature of user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Liu He

We explain and provide examples of a formalism that supports the methodology of discovering how to adapt and personalize technology by combining randomized experiments with variables associated with user models. We characterize a formal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Joseph Jay Williams , Neil Heffernan

Personalisation is essential to achieve more acceptable and effective results in human-robot interaction. Placing users in the central role, many studies have focused on enhancing the abilities of social robots to perceive and understand…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Guanyu Huang , Roger K. Moore

Machine learning models are often personalized with categorical attributes that are protected, sensitive, self-reported, or costly to acquire. In this work, we show models that are personalized with group attributes can reduce performance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-25 Vinith M. Suriyakumar , Marzyeh Ghassemi , Berk Ustun

We consider situations where consumers are aware that a statistical model determines the price of a product based on their observed behavior. Using a novel experiment varying the context similarity between participant data and a product, we…

General Economics · Economics 2024-11-14 Inácio Bó , Li Chen , Rustamdjan Hakimov

Personalized models are essential in digital health because individuals exhibit substantial physiological and behavioral heterogeneity. Yet personalization is limited by scarce and noisy user-specific data. Most existing methods rely on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zhongqi Yang , Mahkameh Rasouli , Neda Mohseni , Yong Huang , Iman Azimi , Amir M. Rahmani

The friendship paradox implies that a person will, on average, have fewer friends than their friends do. Prior work has shown how the friendship paradox can lead to perception biases regarding behaviors that correlate with the number of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Ahmed Medhat , Shankar Iyer

Personal data cover multiple aspects of our daily life and activities, including health, finance, social, Internet, Etc. Personal data visualisations aim to improve the user experience when exploring these large amounts of personal data and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Yasmeen Anjeer Alshehhi , Mohamed Abdelrazek , Alessio Bonti

While computer systems that allow users to interact through conversational natural language (i.e., chatbots) have existed for many years, varying types of applications advertising AI companionship (e.g., Character AI, Replika) have…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Natalie Grace Brigham , Lucy Qin , Tadayoshi Kohno

This paper examines the effect of real-time, personalized alignment of a robot's reward function to the human's values on trust and team performance. We present and compare three distinct robot interaction strategies: a non-learner strategy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Shreyas Bhat , Joseph B. Lyons , Cong Shi , X. Jessie Yang

The field of AI alignment aims to steer AI systems toward human goals, preferences, and ethical principles. Its contributions have been instrumental for improving the output quality, safety, and trustworthiness of today's AI models. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Robert West , Roland Aydin

Smart assistants increasingly act proactively, yet mistimed or intrusive behavior often causes users to lose trust and disable these features. Learning user preferences for proactive assistance is difficult because real-world studies are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ziyi Xuan , Yiwen Wu , Zhaoyang Yan , Vinod Namboodiri , Yu Yang

Recent advances in AI are integrating AI into the fabric of human social life, creating transformative, co-shaping relationships between humans and AI. This trend makes it urgent to investigate how these systems, in turn, shape their users.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Lingqing Wang , Yingting Gao , Chidimma Lois Anyi , Ashok Goel

Personalisation is a standard feature of conversational AI systems used by millions; yet, the efficacy of personalisation methods is often evaluated in academic research using simulated users rather than real people. This raises questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hannah Rose Kirk , Liu Leqi , Fanzhi Zeng , Henry Davidson , Bertie Vidgen , Christopher Summerfield , Scott A. Hale

While users claim to be concerned about privacy, often they do little to protect their privacy in their online actions. One prominent explanation for this "privacy paradox" is that when an individual shares her data, it is not just her…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Guocheng Liao , Yu Su , Juba Ziani , Adam Wierman , Jianwei Huang

The growing popularity of AI writing assistants presents exciting opportunities to craft tools that cater to diverse user needs. This study explores how personality shapes preferences for AI writing companions and how personalized designs…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mengke Wu , Kexin Quan , Weizi Liu , Mike Yao , Jessie Chin

Personal data visualisations are becoming a critical contributor toward the successful adoption of mobile health (m-health) apps. Thus, understanding user needs and challenges when using mobile personal data visualisation is essential to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Yasmeen Anjeer Alshehhi , Mohamed Abdelrazek , Alessio Bonti

Sustainable software development involves creating software in a manner that meets present goals without undermining our ability to meet future goals. In a software engineering context, sustainability has at least four dimensions:…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Bimpe Ayoola , Miikka Kuutila , Rina R. Wehbe , Paul Ralph