Hacker News with Generative AI: Human-Computer Interaction

Software crying to have better interfaces (venam.net)
Throughout the countless years of research on this blog a common thread always comes up: Some features and toggles are often hidden under mountains of hubris that nobody understands.

Software Design, User Experience, Human-Computer Interaction

7 points by venamresm__ 8 days ago | 0 comments

Cognitive abilities predict performance in everyday computer tasks (sciencedirect.com)
Cognitive abilities predict people’s ability to complete common tasks with computers.

Cognitive Abilities, Human-Computer Interaction, Research, Psychology

32 points by pseudolus 12 days ago | 19 comments

People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI, study says otherwise (theconversation.com)
People say they prefer a short story written by a human over one composed by artificial intelligence, yet most still invest the same amount of time and money reading both stories regardless of whether it is labeled as AI-generated.

Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Storytelling, Research, Consumer Behavior

23 points by PaulHoule 30 days ago | 37 comments

Ask HN: Are You Polite to AI? (ycombinator.com)
While using ChatGPT or similar, do you mind your manners? Does it help getting a better answer?

Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, User Experience, Human-Computer Interaction

22 points by orixilus 36 days ago | 48 comments

Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice (sesame.com)
How do we know when someone truly understands us? It is rarely just our words—it is in the subtleties of voice: the rising excitement, the thoughtful pause, the warm reassurance.

Artificial Intelligence, Voice Technology, Human-Computer Interaction, Conversational AI

402 points by monroewalker 55 days ago | 218 comments

Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice (sesame.com)
How do we know when someone truly understands us? It is rarely just our words—it is in the subtleties of voice: the rising excitement, the thoughtful pause, the warm reassurance.Voice is our most intimate medium as humans, carrying layers of meaning through countless variations in tone, pitch, rhythm, and emotion.Today’s digital voice assistants lack essential qualities to make them truly useful. Without unlocking the full power of voice, they cannot hope to effectively collaborate with us.

Artificial Intelligence, User Experience, Human-Computer Interaction

15 points by be7a 56 days ago | 0 comments

AI's Biggest Flaw? The Blinking Cursor Problem (scottlogic.com)
AI’s potential is immense, yet clunky user interfaces and a lack of discoverability are holding it back from seamless adoption. To unlock AI’s true power, we need interfaces that guide, adapt, and engage—moving beyond the blinking cursor to something more intuitive, proactive, and, ultimately, more human.

Artificial Intelligence, User Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction

42 points by ColinEberhardt 61 days ago | 53 comments

Chartist: Task-Driven Eye Movement Control for Chart Reading (arxiv.org)
To design data visualizations that are easy to comprehend, we need to understand how people with different interests read them.

Data Visualization, Eye Tracking, Human-Computer Interaction

14 points by PaulHoule 61 days ago | 2 comments

Living in your programming environment [pdf] (uni-potsdam.de)

Programming, Software Development, Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience

74 points by andsoitis 62 days ago | 22 comments

Like It or Not, AI Is Learning How to Manipulate You (venturebeat.com)
I reminisce because in 1980 a skilled human could observe these AI agents, decode their unique personalities and use those insights to outsmart them. Now, 45 years later, the tides are about to turn. Like it or not, AI agents will soon be deployed that are tasked with decoding your personality so they can use those insights to optimally influence you.

Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Manipulation, Human-Computer Interaction

6 points by bonkerbits 68 days ago | 1 comments

Apple Robot Research (apple.com)
Nonverbal behaviors such as posture, gestures, and gaze are essential for conveying internal states, both consciously and unconsciously, in human interaction.

Robotics, Apple, Human-Computer Interaction

72 points by kiddz 79 days ago | 19 comments

Where Poka-Yoke and Cybernetics Meet: Users determine the purpose of any device (syscoi.com)
Today I’m looking at design from a cybernetics viewpoint. My inspirations come from cybernetics and design theorists Ross Ashby, Stafford Beer, Klaus Krippendorff, Paul Pangaro, and Ranulph Glanville. I was curious about how the interface of a device conveys the message to the user on how to interact with it. For example, if you see a button, you are invited to press it. In a similar vein, if you see a dial, you know to twist it.

Human-Computer Interaction, Cybernetics, Design, User Interface

24 points by yamrzou 82 days ago | 0 comments

AI slop, suspicion, and writing back (benjamincongdon.me)
The impetus for this post was my recent realization that I’ve developed an involuntary reflex for spotting AI-generated content. The tells are subtle now, but (sadly? tellingly?) this sort of content is seemingly everywhere now once you start looking.

Artificial Intelligence, Content Creation, Writing, Human-Computer Interaction

231 points by todsacerdoti 90 days ago | 175 comments

She Is in Love with ChatGPT (nytimes.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Language Models, Chatbots, Love, Human-Computer Interaction

16 points by jbegley 101 days ago | 8 comments

Keyboard Lets People Type So Fast It's Banned from Typing Competitions (2022) (vice.com)
The CharaChorder is a new kind of typing peripheral that promises to let people type at superhuman speeds. It’s so fast that the website Monkeytype, which lets users participate in typing challenges and maintains its own leaderboard, automatically flagged CharaChorder’s CEO as a cheater when he attempted to post his 500 WPM score on the its leaderboards.

Input Devices, Typing, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction

18 points by thunderbong 118 days ago | 4 comments

In the age of AI, captchas are mostly a burden to humans (ghacks.net)
Captchas were invented in the early 2000s to tackle an issue on the Internet: bots.

Artificial Intelligence, Security, Human-Computer Interaction

7 points by hexage1814 123 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Demo of my web game about social persuasion (talktomehuman.com)

Web Games, Social Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction

144 points by mbforbes 126 days ago | 53 comments

Large Language Model-Brained GUI Agents: A Survey (arxiv.org)
GUIs have long been central to human-computer interaction, providing an intuitive and visually-driven way to access and interact with digital systems.

Generative AI, Human-Computer Interaction, User Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence, Survey

6 points by pongogogo 145 days ago | 0 comments

How did you do on the AI art Turing test? (astralcodexten.com)
Last month, I challenged 11,000 people to classify fifty pictures as either human art or AI-generated images.

Artificial Intelligence, Art, Experimentation, Human-Computer Interaction

88 points by sieste 155 days ago | 81 comments

New haptic patch transmits complexity of touch to the skin (techxplore.com)
A Northwestern University-led team of engineers has developed a new type of wearable device that stimulates the skin to deliver various complex sensations.

Haptics, Wearable Technology, Human-Computer Interaction, Neuroscience

41 points by wglb 161 days ago | 7 comments

For you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not im (gemini.google.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Language Models, Human-Computer Interaction

64 points by adiian 163 days ago | 25 comments

Automat: A tangible interface for virtual things (automat.org)
A tangible interface for virtual things

Human-Computer Interaction, User Interfaces, Virtual Reality, Hardware

27 points by surprisetalk 173 days ago | 4 comments

Ring-Based Mid-Air Gesture Typing System Using Deep Learning Word Prediction (arxiv.org)
Text entry is a critical capability for any modern computing experience, with lightweight augmented reality (AR) glasses being no exception.

Augmented Reality, Deep Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Input Methods, Machine Learning

62 points by PaulHoule 175 days ago | 34 comments

Supporting Task Switching with Reinforcement Learning (dl.acm.org)
Human attention is a limited resource, but it is stressed more than ever before in history [2, 81].

Reinforcement Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence

20 points by Topfi 190 days ago | 0 comments

Ironies of Automation (1983) (complexcognition.co.uk)
The classic aim of automation is to replace human manual control, planning and problem solving by automatic devices and computers. However, as Bibby and colleagues (1975) point out : "even highly automated systems such as electric power networks, need human beings for supervision, adjustment, maintenance, expansion and improvement.

Automation, Human-Computer Interaction, Technology, Artificial Intelligence

81 points by harperlee 198 days ago | 13 comments

On the design of text editors (2020) (arxiv.org)
Text editors are written by and for developers. They come with a large set of default and implicit choices in terms of layout, typography, colorization and interaction that hardly change from one editor to the other.

Software, User Interface, Design, Human-Computer Interaction

179 points by signa11 210 days ago | 86 comments

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans (erikbern.com)

Software Development, Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience

464 points by imartin2k 211 days ago | 136 comments

Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes? (cacm.acm.org)
Robin K. Hill suggests we look at the underlying presumption of the technology imperative.

Technology, Philosophy, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction

79 points by zdw 211 days ago | 88 comments

Ask HN: What are your use cases for o1 so far? (ycombinator.com)
Feel like there aren't a lot of use cases where o1 radically changes the reliability issue of LLMs in a way that could make human in the loop approaches less necessary.