3 papers
cs.CL2026
SpeechEQ: Benchmarking Emotional Intelligence Quotient in Socially Aware Voice Conversational Models
Liang-Yuan Wu, Zih-Ching Chen, Tongshuang Wu +2
As multimodal conversational systems increasingly engage in spoken interaction, their ability to navigate paralinguistic social cues has become a critical bottleneck for natural hu…
cs.CL2026
PhoneBuddy: Training Open Models for Agentic Phone Use
Zhengyang Tang, Xin Lai, Pengyuan Lyu +23
Phones are becoming an important execution surface for general-purpose agents, but training open models for reliable phone use remains difficult because the environment that matter…
cs.HC2025
Design for Hope: Cultivating Deliberate Hope in the Face of Complex Societal Challenges
JaeWon Kim, Jiaying "Lizzy" Liu, Lindsay Popowski +10
Design has the potential to cultivate hope in the face of complex societal challenges. These challenges are often addressed through efforts aimed at harm reduction and prevention -…