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As robots and digital assistants are deployed in the real world, these agents must be able to communicate their decision-making criteria to build trust, improve human-robot teaming, and enable collaboration. While the field of explainable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Andrew Silva , Pradyumna Tambwekar , Mariah Schrum , Matthew Gombolay

AI alignment is about ensuring AI systems only pursue goals and activities that are beneficial to humans. Most of the current approach to AI alignment is to learn what humans value from their behavioural data. This paper proposes a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Pei-Yu Chen , Myrthe L. Tielman , Dirk K. J. Heylen , Catholijn M. Jonker , M. Birna van Riemsdijk

Research on human-AI collaboration often prioritizes objective performance. However, understanding human subjective preferences is essential to improving human-AI complementarity and human experiences. We investigate human preferences for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Chase McDonald , Cleotilde Gonzalez

AI is anticipated to enhance human decision-making in high-stakes domains like aviation, but adoption is often hindered by challenges such as inappropriate reliance and poor alignment with users' decision-making. Recent research suggests…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Zelun Tony Zhang , Sebastian S. Feger , Lucas Dullenkopf , Rulu Liao , Lukas Süsslin , Yuanting Liu , Andreas Butz

Aligning language models with human preferences through reinforcement learning from human feedback is crucial for their safe and effective deployment. The human preference is typically represented through comparison where one response is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Hoang Anh Just , Ming Jin , Anit Sahu , Huy Phan , Ruoxi Jia

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

Artificial Intelligence is being employed by humans to collaboratively solve complicated tasks for search and rescue, manufacturing, etc. Efficient teamwork can be achieved by understanding user preferences and recommending different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Lakshita Dodeja , Pradyumna Tambwekar , Erin Hedlund-Botti , Matthew Gombolay

When humans control drones, cars, and robots, we often have some preconceived notion of how our inputs should make the system behave. Existing approaches to teleoperation typically assume a one-size-fits-all approach, where the designers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Mengxi Li , Dylan P. Losey , Jeannette Bohg , Dorsa Sadigh

In today's digital society, personalization has become a crucial aspect of software applications, significantly impacting user experience and engagement. A new wave of intelligent user interfaces, such as AI-based conversational agents, has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Aaron Conrardy , Alfredo Capozucca , Jordi Cabot

The growing popularity of AI writing assistants creates exciting opportunities to support diverse writers. This study examines how personality shapes expectations for AI writing companions and how personality-informed design can enhance…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Mengke Wu , Kexin Quan , Weizi Liu , Mike Yao , Jessie Chin

Today, AI is increasingly being used in many high-stakes decision-making applications in which fairness is an important concern. Already, there are many examples of AI being biased and making questionable and unfair decisions. The AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Yunfeng Zhang , Rachel K. E. Bellamy , Kush R. Varshney

Effective integration of AI agents into daily life requires them to understand and adapt to individual human preferences, particularly in collaborative roles. Although recent studies on embodied intelligence have advanced significantly,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Manjie Xu , Xinyi Yang , Wei Liang , Chi Zhang , Yixin Zhu

The dominant practice of AI alignment assumes (1) that preferences are an adequate representation of human values, (2) that human rationality can be understood in terms of maximizing the satisfaction of preferences, and (3) that AI systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Tan Zhi-Xuan , Micah Carroll , Matija Franklin , Hal Ashton

The rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence(AI) programming assistants such as GitHub Copilot introduces new challenges in how these software tools address human needs. Many existing evaluation frameworks address technical aspects such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Soroush Heydari

We propose a novel preference alignment framework for improving spoken dialogue models on real-time conversations from user interactions. Current preference learning methods primarily focus on text-based language models, and are not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Anne Wu , Laurent Mazaré , Neil Zeghidour , Alexandre Défossez

Developers now have access to a growing array of increasingly autonomous AI tools for software development. While many studies examine copilots that provide chat assistance or code completions, evaluations of coding agents -- which can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Valerie Chen , Ameet Talwalkar , Robert Brennan , Graham Neubig

Human feedback is commonly utilized to finetune AI assistants. But human feedback may also encourage model responses that match user beliefs over truthful ones, a behaviour known as sycophancy. We investigate the prevalence of sycophancy in…

In robotics, ensuring that autonomous systems are comprehensible and accountable to users is essential for effective human-robot interaction. This paper introduces a novel approach that integrates user-centered design principles directly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Amar Halilovic , Senka Krivic

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into daily life, particularly through information retrieval and recommender systems, has necessitated advanced user modeling and profiling techniques to deliver personalized experiences. These…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Erasmo Purificato , Ludovico Boratto , Ernesto William De Luca

Previous research has demonstrated the potential of AI agents to act as companions that can provide constant emotional support for humans. In this paper, we emphasize the necessity of autonomous adaptation in personal AI companionship, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yi Cheng , Wenge Liu , Kaishuai Xu , Wenjun Hou , Yi Ouyang , Chak Tou Leong , Wenjie Li , Xian Wu , Yefeng Zheng