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most citedPerformance and Metacognition Disconnect when Reasoning in Human-AI Interaction

44 citations · 47 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.HC2026

A Scale For Value Alignment In Human-AI Interaction

Lena Hegemann, Steeven Villa, Hyemin Bang +4

Value alignment is a central objective in AI and HCI research, yet no validated instrument measures how users perceive it. This gap hampers the comparison and accumulation of findi…

cs.HC2026

Beyond "ChatGPT Can Make Mistakes": Designing Interventions to Support Metacognitive Monitoring in AI-Assisted Work

Manuel A. D. Santos, Paul Thiesse, Steeven Villa +4

AI assistance places a metacognitive demand on users, who must judge their own competence and the system's. Yet designers lack comparative evidence on which interventions to choose…

cs.HC2026

15 Years of Augmented Human(s) Research: Where Do We Stand?

Steeven Villa, Abdallah El Ali

The Augmented Human vision broadly seeks to improve or expand baseline human functioning through the restoration or extension of physical, intellectual, and social capabilities. Ho…

cs.HC2026

Is it Me? Toward Self-Extension to AI Avatars in Virtual Reality

Jieying Zhang, Steeven Villa, Abdallah El Ali

Advances in generative AI, speech synthesis, and embodied avatars enable systems that not only assist communication, but can act as proxies on users' behalf. Prior work in HCI has…

cs.HC2025

Quantifying the Effect of Thermal Illusions in Virtual Reality

Yannick Weiss, Marlene Eder, Oguzhan Cesur +1

Thermal sensations are central to how we experience the world, yet most virtual and extended reality systems fail to simulate them effectively. While hardware-based thermal display…

cs.RO2024

An Approach to Elicit Human-Understandable Robot Expressions to Support Human-Robot Interaction

Jan Leusmann, Steeven Villa, Thomas Liang +3

Understanding the intentions of robots is essential for natural and seamless human-robot collaboration. Ensuring that robots have means for non-verbal communication is a basis for…

cs.HC2024★ 44 cited

Performance and Metacognition Disconnect when Reasoning in Human-AI Interaction

Daniela Fernandes, Steeven Villa, Salla Nicholls +6

Optimizing human-AI interaction requires users to reflect on their own performance critically. Our paper examines whether people using AI to complete tasks can accurately monitor h…

cs.HC2023★ 3 cited

"AI enhances our performance, I have no doubt this one will do the same": The Placebo effect is robust to negative descriptions of AI

Agnes M. Kloft, Robin Welsch, Thomas Kosch +1

Heightened AI expectations facilitate performance in human-AI interactions through placebo effects. While lowering expectations to control for placebo effects is advisable, overly…