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Real unmet-need signals -- Hacker News "Ask HN" threads that look like someone looking for a tool that doesn't exist yet ("is there a service that...", "looking for something that..."), and Y Combinator's own published Requests for Startups -- all classified into the same vertical × function taxonomy launches get. See a title on the Gaps page too when its vertical/function combination is also a gap.

Where people are asking, by vertical

Question Source Vertical Function Points Posted
Neuron-Level Architecture Growth: A Controlled Evaluation for EEG Time-Series Decoding arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Model & infra — Sept. 27, 2026
On Edge in the Dental Chair: Designing VR Support for Moments of Dental Anxiety arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Vertical SaaS — Sept. 14, 2026
AI for the Aging Population YC Requests for Startups Healthcare Agent / copilot — —
Multiplayer AI YC Requests for Startups Horizontal Workflow automation — —
Compute at Sea YC Requests for Startups Horizontal Model & infra — —
AI-Powered Consumer Products for 1 Billion People YC Requests for Startups Horizontal Agent / copilot — —
The Best Time to Build in Crypto YC Requests for Startups Fintech Data infrastructure — —
Towards Scalable Measurement of Durable Skills arXiv (cs.HC) Education Analytics & BI — Sept. 14, 2026
Data for the Real World YC Requests for Startups Horizontal Data infrastructure — —
Pulla: A Parsons Problem Tool for Fine-Grained Behavioral Tracing and Instructor-Facing Problem-Solving Analysis arXiv (cs.HC) Education Analytics & BI — Sept. 14, 2026
Proving You're Human YC Requests for Startups Security Compliance & governance — —
Data storytelling meets interpretable machine learning: Decoding AI decisions for non-experts without revealing sensitive data and model details arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Analytics & BI — Sept. 14, 2026
Beyond Retrieval: Scaffolding Children's Online Learning arXiv (cs.HC) Education Search & retrieval — Sept. 14, 2026
Profiling Handwriting-Process Deviations in Developmental Dysgraphia: An Open, Normatively-Referenced Instrument arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Analytics & BI — Sept. 14, 2026
PeerPen: AI-Assisted Writing for Online Mental Health Peer Support arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Content generation — Sept. 14, 2026
MedVA: An End-to-End Neuro-Symbolic Agentic System for Medical Volume Visualization arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Agent / copilot — Sept. 14, 2026
Oops, Not Now: PEARL, a RAG-Based Support Agent for Gameplay and What Players Want from AI Help arXiv (cs.HC) Education Agent / copilot — Sept. 12, 2026
ggaction: A Grammar of Graphical Actions arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 13, 2026
When Single-User-Oriented LLM-based Assistants Involve Others: A Scoping Review of Pathways, Risks, and Responses arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Agent / copilot — Sept. 12, 2026
Rethinking the Implications of Human Feedback for Preference Learning in Human-Robot Collaboration arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Hardware & robotics — Sept. 12, 2026
What Makes a Great Co-Worker in an AI-Native Workplace? arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Agent / copilot — Sept. 12, 2026
"What Can I Do for You'': How Should AI Companions Provide Assistance to Players in Virtual Reality Games arXiv (cs.HC) Media & entertainment Agent / copilot — Sept. 12, 2026
Enhancing Procedural Writing Through Personalized Example Retrieval: A Case Study on Cooking Recipes arXiv (cs.HC) Education Agent / copilot — Sept. 15, 2026
Neuro-Symbolic Hierarchical Intention Anticipation in Human Behavior arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Hardware & robotics — Sept. 15, 2026
Beyond Measurement Metrics: A Human-Centered Framework for Semantic Validation of Network Traffic Classification arXiv (cs.HC) Security Observability & eval — Sept. 15, 2026
EgoAsk: Egocentric Teaching of Personalized Object Knowledge for Household Robots arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Hardware & robotics — Sept. 15, 2026
NephoCodex: Exploring Bounded Material Agency in Weather Data Physicalization arXiv (cs.HC) Energy & climate Hardware & robotics — Sept. 15, 2026
CATVis: A Collaborative Multi-Agent Workflow for Turbomachinery Simulation Data Visualization arXiv (cs.HC) Manufacturing Analytics & BI — Sept. 15, 2026
EmoPhone: A Multi-Wave Dataset for In-the-Wild Mobile and Wearable Affect Sensing arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Data infrastructure — Sept. 15, 2026
Ptolemy: A Semantic Map of Exploratory Data Analysis arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Analytics & BI — Sept. 15, 2026
Beyond Gestures: Estimating Full Hand Pose and Contact Forces from Wrist-Worn Pressure Sensor Array arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Hardware & robotics — Sept. 15, 2026
"ChatGPT, what am I missing?": Designing AI Workflows around Professional Task Structure to Shape Analytic AI Use arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Workflow automation — Sept. 15, 2026
A multimodal large language model for evidence-based autism spectrum disorder screening arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Agent / copilot — Sept. 15, 2026
XRoboToolKit-T: Teleoperation with High Stability and Precision with Tactile Sensing for Contact-rich Manipulation arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Hardware & robotics — Sept. 14, 2026
Context-Aware Emotionally Adaptive Voice Assistants: A Multimodal Framework for Empathetic Human-Agent Interaction arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Agent / copilot — Sept. 14, 2026
Auto-HSI: Personalized human control of a robot swarm on demand by using LLMs for online automatic code generation arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Hardware & robotics — Sept. 14, 2026
From Momentary Emotion Inference to Sustained Emotion Support: Evaluating a Companion Agent in a Longitudinal Study arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Agent / copilot — Sept. 14, 2026
Intelligent Interaction Techniques (IIxT) - Proposal arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 14, 2026
CareMirror: Bringing Caregiver Wellbeing into the Dementia Care Ecosystem arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Vertical SaaS — Sept. 15, 2026
Lexplorer: Navigating the Complexity of Legal Document Landscapes arXiv (cs.HC) Legal Search & retrieval — Sept. 15, 2026
Evaluating Ambient Clinical Scribes in India: The Need for Multilingual Real-World Clinical Conversation Data arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Agent / copilot — Sept. 15, 2026
LumiNote: LLM-Assisted Multimodal Instruction for VR Stage Lighting Education arXiv (cs.HC) Education Agent / copilot — Sept. 15, 2026
A Scenario-Knowledge-Driven Pipeline for Just-in-Time Assistance arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Agent / copilot — Sept. 15, 2026
EasyFashion: A Human-AI Co-Creation System for Personalized Fashion Design and Sewing Pattern Generation arXiv (cs.HC) Manufacturing Content generation — Sept. 16, 2026
Verify, Offload, Extend & Recommend: Selective Complementarity in AI Support for Physical Activity Planning with Longitudinal Patient Data arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Agent / copilot — Sept. 16, 2026
Hardware-Free Robotics Laboratories in Mixed Reality arXiv (cs.HC) Education Vertical SaaS — Sept. 16, 2026
GYROval: A Robust Benchmark for Cultural Value Orientation in Large Language Models arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 16, 2026
SmartFlex: An Adaptive Lumbar Support System Based on Posture Recognition and Air Bag Array arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Hardware & robotics — Sept. 16, 2026
Encypher: Shared Agency and Social Presence in Collaborative Music Generation for Dance Cyphers arXiv (cs.HC) Media & entertainment Content generation — Sept. 16, 2026
A11yLTLNav: Automatic Detection of Accessibility Navigation Failures arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 16, 2026
Apply-<x>Mag: One Tool to Support Many Inclusive Design Methods arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 16, 2026
AI Mediators Regulate Emotion and Create Value in Disputes arXiv (cs.HC) Legal Agent / copilot — Sept. 15, 2026
Does AI Assistance Leave a Temporal Fingerprint? Detecting Overreliance in AI-Assisted Writing and Programming arXiv (cs.HC) Education Compliance & governance — Sept. 15, 2026
Learning Heterogeneous Preferences arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Model & infra — Sept. 15, 2026
Lexara-RF: Reference-Free Metrics for Evaluating Conversational Visual Analytics Agents arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 15, 2026
Participant-Mediated Collection of Sensitive Digital Trace Data: The CANDOR Research Infrastructure arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Data infrastructure — Sept. 15, 2026
"We Are Tired of Explaining": Communication Practice and AI Roleplay Training for Community Health Workers in Rural India arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Agent / copilot — Sept. 15, 2026
How Do We Visualize Space in Molecular Biology? A Study of Spatial Transcriptomics Visualization Practices arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Analytics & BI — Sept. 17, 2026
AI Should Facilitate Democratic Deliberation at Scale arXiv (cs.HC) Government Communication — Sept. 17, 2026
Penquiry: A Pen-based Interactive In-situ Q&A System Leveraging LLMs arXiv (cs.HC) Education Search & retrieval — Sept. 17, 2026
Point, Revise, Review: Grounded Agentic Analysis in Reactive Notebooks with marimo-lens arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 17, 2026
Affective Shared Autonomy: Temporal Affect Dynamics and Subjective Evaluation in Bimanual Teleoperation Tasks arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Hardware & robotics — Sept. 17, 2026
Treadstone: A Social-Media-Inspired Platform for Multi-Agent Collaborative Data Analysis arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Analytics & BI — Sept. 17, 2026
DELUGE: Decomposed Entropy-coded Live Unstructured Geometry Exchange for Real-time Particle Streaming arXiv (cs.HC) Media & entertainment Data infrastructure — Sept. 17, 2026
DataCanvas-EDU: An Agentic Framework for Instructor-Guided Synthetic Data Generation in Business Analytics Education arXiv (cs.HC) Education Content generation — Sept. 17, 2026
FootprintRAG: Visual Analytics for Evidence Context Refinement in RAG-based Scientific Literature Exploration arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Search & retrieval — Sept. 17, 2026
Value Faces: Surfacing How Self-Presentation Shifts Across Relationships arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Analytics & BI — Sept. 17, 2026
Learning from Success and Failure: Acquiring Adaptive Dialogue Strategies for Social Robots arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Hardware & robotics — Sept. 17, 2026
FenceXR: AR Movement Replay for Error-Detection Training and Spatially Grounded Feedback arXiv (cs.HC) Education Analytics & BI — Sept. 16, 2026
CARES: A Conversational AI System for Regulation-Grounded Safety Reporting in Construction Education arXiv (cs.HC) Construction Agent / copilot — Sept. 16, 2026
Durably Reducing Belief in Women's Health Misinformation Through Culturally Adaptive AI Videos arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Content generation — Sept. 16, 2026
"I Know Where to Look," But Does the LLM? Charting the Gaps Between Clinical Expert Needs and Unstructured Data Abstraction Tools arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Workflow automation — Sept. 16, 2026
OHRID-Retail: An Open Multimodal Dataset of Human Activity in Retail Environments arXiv (cs.HC) Retail & commerce Data infrastructure — Sept. 16, 2026
MuTable: Composable and Reusable Table Transformations for In-Situ Data Exploration arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Analytics & BI — Sept. 16, 2026
''Bless his heart... he thought all we did was push a button": Understanding Worker Challenges with U.S. Election Technology arXiv (cs.HC) Government Vertical SaaS — Sept. 16, 2026
The Data Hospital: A Workflow-Based Concept for Explainable Research Data Quality Assistance arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Data infrastructure — Sept. 17, 2026
Semantic Action Graph: A Shared Representation for Agent Grounding and Human Interpretation of Sports Highlights arXiv (cs.HC) Media & entertainment Agent / copilot — Sept. 17, 2026
TeamCAMS: An Open-Source Research Platform for Studying Human Behaviour in Human-AI Teams arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 17, 2026
greCAPTCHA: Assessing Understanding as Evidence of Research Authorship Under Generative AI arXiv (cs.HC) Education Compliance & governance — Sept. 17, 2026
Touvigation: Embodied Adaptive Object Acquisition for Blind and Low-Vision Users in Unfamiliar Indoor Environments arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Agent / copilot — Sept. 18, 2026
An Agentic Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention System for Personalized Sleep Support: Proof-of-Concept Study with N of 1 Data arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Agent / copilot — Sept. 18, 2026
Notrix: Understanding Machine Learning Solutions Across Computational Notebooks at Scale arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 18, 2026
Learned Parametric Emotion Editing: Real-Time Affective Filtering for On-Device Social Media Video arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Content generation — Sept. 18, 2026
Open Platform Field Experiments: Expanding the Design Space of Experimental Research on Social Media arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 18, 2026
Reducing Barriers to Academic Support: Evaluating a Course-Specific RAG System for Addressing Help-Seeking Disparities in Higher Education arXiv (cs.HC) Education Agent / copilot — Sept. 18, 2026
GestureFAR: Streaming Co-Speech Gesture Generation with Flow Autoregression arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Content generation — Sept. 18, 2026
Do We Care About Personalization and Explainability? An Interview Study with News Recommendation Engineers arXiv (cs.HC) Media & entertainment Observability & eval — Sept. 18, 2026
AESSI: An Around-Ear Silent Speech Interface for Cross-Day Online Reuse without Test-Day Calibration arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Hardware & robotics — Sept. 18, 2026
MarineCraft: Enabling Rapid Prototyping of Underwater Robots via Modular Construction arXiv (cs.HC) Manufacturing Hardware & robotics — Sept. 18, 2026
RobotEQ-Video: A Video-Centric Benchmark for Social Proactive Intelligence with World-State Taxonomy arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 18, 2026
GUIDE: Designer-in-the-loop Authoring of Conformant Generative User Interfaces arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 18, 2026
Two's a Crowd: Human and AI-Based Copresence for Developers with ADHD arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Agent / copilot — Sept. 18, 2026
Self-Care and Mental Health: Mapping Over A Decade of HCI Interventions arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Analytics & BI — Sept. 18, 2026
Human Driver Temperament and the Safety Impact of a C-V2X Denial-of-Service Flooding Attack in Mixed-Autonomy Traffic arXiv (cs.HC) Security Observability & eval — Sept. 18, 2026
OpenRoIS: A Community-Driven Open-Source Middleware Implementing the Robotic Interaction Service (RoIS) Framework for Physical Robots and Virtual Agents arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 18, 2026
Exploring Text Classification Models with Sparse Autoencoders arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 17, 2026
Decoding the Dashboard: Data Comics to Support Students' Understanding of Learning Analytics Visualisations arXiv (cs.HC) Education Analytics & BI — Sept. 17, 2026
From Task Success to Productive Success: Evaluating Human-AI Collaboration by Quality and Cost arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 17, 2026
Understanding How Educators Configure GenAI Support for Open-Ended Learning -- An Exploratory Study of K-12 Career Exploration arXiv (cs.HC) Education Workflow automation — Sept. 17, 2026
Gricea: An Open Science Platform for Conversational AI Research arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 18, 2026
Beyond Reactive Assistance: PV-Care Using Low-Density EEG and AI to Provide Proactive, Context-Aware Help for MCI arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Agent / copilot — Sept. 18, 2026
Do Not Trust the Benchmark: Limitations of General LLM Rankings and a Case for Task-Specific Evaluation arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 19, 2026
Learner-Centered Design of Educational Tools for Cross-Expertise Technical Communication in Computing Contexts arXiv (cs.HC) Education Communication — Sept. 20, 2026
Deciphering the Babel of Play: A Human-AI Collaborative Approach for Large-Scale Cross-Language Analysis of Game Reviews arXiv (cs.HC) Media & entertainment Analytics & BI — Sept. 19, 2026
Measuring Smartphone User Experience through a Hierarchical Metric Framework via Social Media Reviews arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Analytics & BI — Sept. 19, 2026
Adaptive Scaffolding Needs Contingency: An AI Tutor That Escalates and Fades on What the Learner Does arXiv (cs.HC) Education Agent / copilot — Sept. 19, 2026
Automatic multimodal UX improvement recommendations from LLM agent user simulations arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 19, 2026
Coral: Contextual Gists for Blind and Low Vision Screen Reader Users' Understanding of Dynamic User Interfaces arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Agent / copilot — Sept. 19, 2026
Explanation Navigator: Rectifying Out-of-Scope Human Interpretations of Leaky AI Explanations through Conversational Guidance arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 19, 2026
Toward Auditable and Calibrated AI for Dementia-Related Crash Severity Prediction: A Selective Deferral Framework to Support Human Review arXiv (cs.HC) Government Workflow automation — Sept. 19, 2026
The Choreographic Genome: Amplifying the Silent Structure of Text into Dance arXiv (cs.HC) Media & entertainment Content generation — Sept. 18, 2026
Scalable AI-based clinical communication training and automated assessment arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Agent / copilot — Sept. 18, 2026
Vox-Infinity: Benchmarking the Limits of Long-Context Spoken Language Models arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 18, 2026
Who Does What in AI Auditing? Designing Human-AI Collaboration for Auditing Generative AI arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Compliance & governance — Sept. 21, 2026
onPanda: Efficient Annotation of On-Policy Alignment Data for LLMs and Agents via Token-Level Correction arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 21, 2026
Generative Tutorial: Towards Live Contextualized Visual Instructions for Physical Tasks arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Content generation — Sept. 21, 2026
EMooly: Supporting Autistic Children in Collaborative Social-Emotional Learning with Caregiver Participation through Interactive AI-infused and AR Activities arXiv (cs.HC) Education Vertical SaaS — Sept. 21, 2026
ATCion: Exploring the Design of Icon-based Visual Aids for Enhancing In-cockpit Air Traffic Control Communication arXiv (cs.HC) Logistics Communication — Sept. 21, 2026
Small-world Networks of Agents Brainstorm AI Risks to Support Ideation arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Compliance & governance — Sept. 21, 2026
CRiDiT: Instantiating a run-time testbed for trust calibration in AI-infused systems arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 21, 2026
Detecting Agitation Before Behavioral Escalation in Autistic Youth Through Multimodal Wearable Sensing arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Hardware & robotics — Sept. 21, 2026
"MeBo Leaves a Piece of You Behind": Designing a Relational Voice-Based Memory Companion for Older Adults arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Agent / copilot — Sept. 21, 2026
Structure-Aware Rendering: How Code Reveal Shapes Programmers' Visual Attention arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 21, 2026
Finger-to-Ear ECG: Systematic Evaluation of an Earbud-Based Cardiac Monitoring Approach arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Hardware & robotics — Sept. 21, 2026
Beyond Screen Time: Demonstrating the Value of App Activity Logs to Understand User Behavior Further arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Analytics & BI — Sept. 21, 2026
A Leader-Driven Open Collaboration Platform for Exploring New Domains arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Communication — Sept. 21, 2026
DeceptionAnalyser: A Web-Based AI Tool for Performing Structured Deception Analysis with Argumentation Schemes and LLMs arXiv (cs.HC) Security Analytics & BI — Sept. 21, 2026
Making Fragmented Reports Legible: Finding Patterns and Perceptions of Sexual Violence in Bangladesh arXiv (cs.HC) Government Analytics & BI — Sept. 21, 2026
AI-Assisted Social Story Intervention for Special Education: The Design of AdaptED Stories arXiv (cs.HC) Education Content generation — Sept. 21, 2026
When AI Tutors Speak: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment arXiv (cs.HC) Education Agent / copilot — Sept. 21, 2026
The Work Behind Delegation: A Framework for Supervising AI Coding Agents arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 21, 2026
Adaptive Forgetting for Nonstationary Optimization: Towards Robust EEG Decoding arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Model & infra — Sept. 21, 2026
ProbeScout: Visual Analytics for Attribute-Guided Image Search arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Search & retrieval — Sept. 21, 2026
Ask Before It Tells: Benchmark-to-Robot Body-Cue Transfer for a Question-First Bedside Robot arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Hardware & robotics — Sept. 21, 2026
WidgetVA: A Widget-Centric Framework and Benchmark for Agentic Visual Analytics arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Analytics & BI — Sept. 21, 2026
Toward Human-in-the-Loop Robot Failure Recovery: Bridging Communication Gaps in Human-Robot Collaboration arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Hardware & robotics — Sept. 21, 2026
EEG-Fusion: Failure-Informed Source-Free Expert Routing for Robust Motor Imagery EEG Decoding arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Model & infra — Sept. 27, 2026
The Future of American Defense YC Requests for Startups Government Hardware & robotics — —
Alignment Games: A Framework for Conceptual Repair in Human-AI Collaboration arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Agent / copilot — Sept. 28, 2026
A Cloud for Small Software YC Requests for Startups Horizontal Dev tools — —
Guardrails or Roadblocks? Effects of Pedagogical Style and Context Awareness in AI Teaching Assistants for Programming arXiv (cs.HC) Education Agent / copilot — Sept. 24, 2026
Voice Agents under Acoustic Stress: From Signal Degradation to Interaction and Action arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 24, 2026
AI-Moderated Interviews for Market Research and Digital Twins Calibration arXiv (cs.HC) Marketing Agent / copilot — Sept. 24, 2026
Talk2Escape: Conversational Grounding for Vision-and-Language Navigation arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Agent / copilot — Sept. 23, 2026
ChartRevive: Reconstructing Data Visualizations from Chart Images Using MLLM arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Analytics & BI — Sept. 22, 2026
Psychoacoustically Aligned Latent Smoothing for Adversarial Robustness of Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech Dialogue Models arXiv (cs.HC) Security Model & infra — Sept. 23, 2026
Calibrating LLM Judges for Human and AI Conversations arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 24, 2026
Accounting for Stochasticity in Studies of Large Language Model Refusal arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 27, 2026
HelpCoach: Scaffolding Targeted AI Help-Seeking During Problem-Solving arXiv (cs.HC) Education Agent / copilot — Sept. 24, 2026
How Constraints and Preferences Shape Travel Planning: Implications for AI Planning Support arXiv (cs.HC) Travel & hospitality Agent / copilot — Sept. 22, 2026
Experts Rise Where LLMs Disagree: Using Cross-Model Disagreement to Target Expert Effort in LLM Codebook Revision for Large-Scale Annotation arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Data infrastructure — Sept. 22, 2026
The Primer YC Requests for Startups Education Agent / copilot — —
New Operating Systems for the Physical World YC Requests for Startups Horizontal Workflow automation — —
VocalEyes: Speaker-Aware Augmented Reality Captioning through In-Conversation Registration arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Communication — Sept. 26, 2026
The Interface Is Downstream: Designing the Terms of Human-Agent Collaboration arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Agent / copilot — Sept. 23, 2026
DashAct: A Progressive Diagnostic Benchmark for GUI Agents in Interactive Dashboard Analysis arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 26, 2026
Characterizing Memory Misalignment in Human-LLM Interaction From User Perspectives arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Agent / copilot — Sept. 27, 2026
Neither Silence nor Overlap Is Failure: Intent-Conditioned Evaluation of Turn-Taking in Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Models arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 23, 2026
Toward a Culturally Adapted Chinese Language Agent: A Wizard-of-Oz Study of Nonverbal Behavior in Chinese-German Intercultural Interaction arXiv (cs.HC) Education Agent / copilot — Sept. 28, 2026
CoBranchMR: Supporting Parallel Design and Conflict Resolution in Mixed Reality arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Workflow automation — Sept. 23, 2026
Bayesian Active Learning for Intent Disambiguation in Interactive Robot Planning arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Hardware & robotics — Sept. 28, 2026
Controlling Backchannels in Streamable Full-duplex Models arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Model & infra — Sept. 24, 2026
Will It Teach as Intended? How Teachers Configure Educational AI Chatbots arXiv (cs.HC) Education Agent / copilot — Sept. 24, 2026
LLM-Assisted Workflow for Structural Difference Visualization in Evolving Software Requirements arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 23, 2026
ViMoWear: Visual Motion-Guided sEMG-IMU Representation Learning for Subject-Independent Thumb Gesture Recognition arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Hardware & robotics — Sept. 23, 2026
Self-Maintaining APIs YC Requests for Startups Horizontal Dev tools — —
Scanvas: Discovering and Developing Synergistic Opportunities in Generative Design Spaces arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Content generation — Sept. 28, 2026
Stepping into the Margins: How Readers Want AI to Generate Footnotes arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Content generation — Sept. 22, 2026
DocuTeam: Mixed-Initiative Multi-Agent Discussions around Evolving Documents arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Agent / copilot — Sept. 24, 2026
AnomaSense: Anomaly-based Sensor Activation for Fine-Grained Human Activity Recognition arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Hardware & robotics — Sept. 24, 2026
ASAP: Visual Analytics for Identifying and Analyzing Image Patterns in AI-generated Images arXiv (cs.HC) Security Analytics & BI — Sept. 23, 2026
WSM-Aware HRI: An IoT-Enhanced Framework for Early Detection and Norm-Guided Repair of Failures with LLM Guidance arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Hardware & robotics — Sept. 26, 2026
ContraVis: Evidence-Grounded Visual Analytics for Contradiction Review in Legal Contracts arXiv (cs.HC) Legal Analytics & BI — Sept. 22, 2026
Building Socio-Affective Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Multi-Agent Simulations arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Agent / copilot — Sept. 22, 2026
Epstein Files Engine: Agentic Search for Investigative Journalism arXiv (cs.HC) Media & entertainment Search & retrieval — Sept. 24, 2026
Reliability-Gated Fusion of Consumer Head and Foot IMUs for Lower-Body 3D Pose arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Hardware & robotics — Sept. 28, 2026
CraftTrace: Unflattening Videos into Malleable, Creation-Inspired Structures for Generative Editing arXiv (cs.HC) Media & entertainment Content generation — Sept. 24, 2026
One Sensor, Whole Body - 3D Body Pose from a Single Consumer Earbud IMU arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Hardware & robotics — Sept. 28, 2026
When Models Choose the Question: Pedagogical Constraints in Bottom-Up Multi-Agent Inquiry arXiv (cs.HC) Education Agent / copilot — Sept. 28, 2026
PUBG Ally: A Conversational Embodied Agent as an AI Teammate arXiv (cs.HC) Media & entertainment Agent / copilot — Sept. 24, 2026
StructSim: Measuring Idea Similarity at Scale Through Structural Representation arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Analytics & BI — Sept. 28, 2026
DataMagic: Authoring Data Videos through Declarative Multi-Agent Orchestration arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Content generation — Sept. 27, 2026
NSV-Shift: A Contrastive Benchmark for Non-Speech Vocalization Understanding and Response Adaptation in Speech-to-Speech Models arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 27, 2026
PDFa11yMut: Measuring Mutation-Specific Detection in PDF Accessibility Checkers arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Compliance & governance — Sept. 27, 2026
ParallelPilot: Supporting Coordination and Monitoring in Parallel AI Coding arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 27, 2026
Medical Knowledge Is Not All You Need: When Medical Q&A Becomes Situated Patient Assistance arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Agent / copilot — Sept. 27, 2026
Improving Calibration of Black-Box Radiology AI Using Test-Time Augmentation arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Observability & eval — Sept. 24, 2026
A Human-Like Pedestrian Model for Automated Driving Simulations arXiv (cs.HC) Logistics Dev tools — Sept. 24, 2026
Signals of AI Hallucination: Designing Hallucination-Aware Cues for Embodied Conversational Agents in VR arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Agent / copilot — Sept. 23, 2026
CLAIRE: A Schema-Grounded Hybrid Workflow for Healthcare Administrative Form Completion arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Workflow automation — Sept. 26, 2026
CG-Diff: Organizing Code Changes Around Call Graphs arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Dev tools — Sept. 25, 2026
E-CONAN (Entailment, CONtradition And Neutral) Diagnostics Dataset Investigating Linguistic Phenomena in Arabic Natural Language Understanding arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 27, 2026
AI-Driven Collaborative Assembly Line Inspection: System Integration and Deployment Challenges arXiv (cs.HC) Manufacturing Hardware & robotics — Sept. 27, 2026
PANEL: An Open-Source, Self-Hosted Web Platform for Human Evaluation of Generative Models arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 25, 2026
A Benchmark for LLM's Understanding of Middle School and High School Science Topics arXiv (cs.HC) Education Observability & eval — Sept. 25, 2026
AI-Native Compliance Infrastructure YC Requests for Startups Fintech Compliance & governance — —
The Future of Visualization Dashboards in the Age of Generative AI arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Analytics & BI — Sept. 28, 2026
Making the Invisible Visible: A Framework for Reflective AI Use in Software Engineering Education arXiv (cs.HC) Education Observability & eval — Sept. 28, 2026
ReVision: Supporting Designers' Interpretation and Exploration of Visuals in Concepts and Forms arXiv (cs.HC) Media & entertainment Content generation — Sept. 27, 2026
PainterBench: A Figural Divergent-Thinking Benchmark for Tool-Using Language Models arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Observability & eval — Sept. 28, 2026
HiThink Turn: An Intent-Aware Turn-Taking Control Module for Full-Duplex Dialogue arXiv (cs.HC) Horizontal Model & infra — Sept. 28, 2026
ThinkNet: Compact Architecture Selection and Validation-Gated Ensembles for Subject-Independent MI-EEG Decoding arXiv (cs.HC) Healthcare Model & infra — Sept. 27, 2026
Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud? HN Horizontal Workflow automation 22 Sept. 22, 2026
best language to build an app in Reddit Horizontal Data infrastructure 7 Sept. 19, 2026