Hacker News with Generative AI: Human-Computer Interaction

LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders (arxiv.org)
We directly compare the persuasion capabilities of a frontier large language model (LLM; Claude Sonnet 3.5) against incentivized human persuaders in an interactive, real-time conversational quiz setting.
Artificial Intelligence, Persuasion, Human-Computer Interaction
140 points by flornt 6 days ago | 114 comments
Show HN: You know browser-use, here's human-use for LLMs to get info from humans (github.com/RapidataAI)
Human Use is the easiest way to connect your AI agents with human intelligence via the Rapidata API.
AI, Human-Computer Interaction, Software, APIs
7 points by maalber 9 days ago | 4 comments
Show HN: Can you meld minds with AI and guess the same word? (convergegame.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Games, Human-Computer Interaction
11 points by cwackerfuss 14 days ago | 14 comments
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__ 35 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 39 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 57 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 63 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 82 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 83 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 88 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 89 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 89 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 96 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 106 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 109 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 117 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 128 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 145 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 150 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 153 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 172 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 182 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 188 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 190 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 200 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 202 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 217 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 225 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 237 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 238 days ago | 136 comments