From doctors diagnosing symptoms to judges intervening in court cases, humans make complex decisions every day. Increasingly, artificial intelligence tools are being used to help with those decisions.

The next useful pattern in industrial AI is a human-centered factory architecture that combines edge perception, process ...

At the Mar. 6 symposium “Creative Agency in the Age of AI,” the Northwestern University Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design (HCI+D)—a collaboration between Northwestern Engineering and ...

Human activity is increasingly extending into environments marked by isolation, confinement, and extreme conditions, including long-duration space missions, polar research stations, intensive care ...

Editor’s note: “What is [...]?” is a section-wide column that explores the STEM majors at UW and explains what they are. In this edition, contributing writer Maria Daraselia explores human centered ...

At the Feb. 20 symposium “Validating Generative AI-Based Social Sciences,” the Northwestern University Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design (HCI+D)—a collaboration between Northwestern ...

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

BISC is a paper-thin, wireless, AI-ready brain implant poised to transform both neurotherapy and human-machine interaction. Credit: Columbia Engineering A radically miniaturized brain implant called ...

Social by nature, humans interact in multiple ways—through voice, vision and touch. Reflecting these humanistic qualities, robotic capabilities are improving, and as such, human-robot interaction will ...

In 2024, Microsoft introduced small language models (SLMs) to customers, starting with the release of Phi (opens in new tab) models on Microsoft Foundry (opens in new tab), as well as deploying Phi ...

I first became aware of the phrase “human design” while watching the second season of Love is Blind UK earlier this year. In the show, one of the castmates, Patrick Justus, repeatedly said he was ...