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Neural Representations as New Modes of Interactivity
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Human-AI interaction today runs almost entirely through prompts and outputs, keeping AI systems opaque to general users. We introduce Neural Representation Interaction (NRI), a paradigm that treats the internal representations of neural networks as an interaction material people can inspect, steer, and edit. Situating NRI alongside graphical, tangible, and bio-computer interaction, we argue that the concepts and algorithms models encode internally offer representational affordances for richer human-AI interaction. We synthesize actionable mechanistic interpretability methods and, drawing on General Morphological Analysis, construct a design space spanning Interaction, Target, Referent, and Purpose. Mapping existing interfaces onto this space reveals that most serve expert auditors, while few support lay users. We then present speculative applications in education, personal user modeling, and hiring audits, and discuss design principles, limitations, and sociotechnical risks. NRI offers HCI researchers abstractions for designing interactions that work with AI computation rather than only through its inputs and outputs.
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Neural Representations as New Modes of Interactivity
Human-AI interaction today runs almost entirely through prompts and outputs, keeping AI systems opaque to general users. We introduce Neural Representation Interaction (NRI), a paradigm that treats the internal representations of neural networks as an interaction material people can inspect, steer, and edit. Situating NRI alongside graphical, tangible, and bio-computer interaction, we argue that the concepts and algorithms models encode internally offer representational affordances for richer human-AI interaction. We synthesize actionable mechanistic interpretability methods and, drawing on General Morphological Analysis, construct a design space spanning Interaction, Target, Referent, and Purpose. Mapping existing interfaces onto this space reveals that most serve expert auditors, while few support lay users. We then present speculative applications in education, personal user modeling, and hiring audits, and discuss design principles, limitations, and sociotechnical risks. NRI offers HCI researchers abstractions for designing interactions that work with AI computation rather than only through its inputs and outputs.
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