Believable proxies of human behavior can empower interactive applications ranging from
immersive environments to rehearsal spaces for interpersonal communication to prototy** …

End-users can potentially style and customize websites by editing them through in-browser
developer tools. Unfortunately, end-users lack the knowledge needed to translate high-level …

Today, most conversational agents are limited to simple tasks supported by standalone
commands, such as getting directions or scheduling an appointment. To support more …

We characterize and demonstrate how the principles of direct manipulation can improve
interaction with large language models. This includes: continuous representation of …

The field of Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) works to understand and to design
interactions between people and machines. Increasingly, human collectives are using …

Virtual assistants like Google Assistant and Siri often interface with external apps when they
cannot directly perform a task. Currently, developers must manually expose the capabilities …

At present, bots are still in their preliminary stages of development. Many are relatively
simple, or developed ad-hoc for a very specific use-case. For this reason, they are typically …

From smart homes that prepare coffee when we wake, to phones that know not to interrupt
us during important conversations, our collective visions of HCI imagine a future in which …

Users often make continued and sustained use of online resources to complement use of a
desktop application. For example, users may reference online tutorials to recall how to …

While emergent behaviors are uncodified across many domains such as programming and
writing, interfaces need explicit rules to support users. We hypothesize that by codifying …