Page 19: Research news on Human-centered AI interfaces

Human-centered AI interfaces encompass computational systems that use machine learning, generative models, and multimodal sensing to mediate, augment, or interpret human communication and behavior. Work in this area spans assistive communication for speech, hearing, and motor impairments, real-time sign language and speech technologies, and social robots that adapt behavior and express empathy. Vision-language models and video analytics support long-video reasoning, activity recognition, and error detection, while interactive agents, privacy-aware speech systems, and affect-sensitive tools enable more accessible, expressive, and context-aware human–AI interaction across physical and virtual environments.

Consumer & Gadgets

AI vision language models provide video descriptions for blind users

For people who are blind or have low vision, the audio descriptions of action in movies and TV shows are essential to understanding what is happening. Networks and streaming services hire professionals to create audio descriptions, ...

Machine learning & AI

New method can teach AI to admit uncertainty

In high-stakes situations like health care—or weeknight "Jeopardy!"—it can be safer to say "I don't know" than to answer incorrectly. Doctors, game show contestants, and standardized test-takers understand this, but most ...

Hi Tech & Innovation

France's Versailles unveils AI-powered talking statues

Visitors to France's famed Palace of Versailles can now strike up a conversation with talking statues instead of listening to a traditional audio guide, as part of a new collaboration with artificial intelligence companies, ...

Machine learning & AI

Where did the wonder go, and can AI help us find it?

French philosopher René Descartes crowned human reason in 1637 as the foundation of existence: "Cogito, ergo sum"—"I think, therefore I am." For centuries, our capacity to doubt, question and think has been both our compass ...

Machine learning & AI

Researchers are teaching AI to see more like humans

At Brown University, an innovative new project is revealing that teaching artificial intelligence to perceive things more like people may begin with something as simple as a game. The project invites participants to play ...

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