Overview

The field predicts individual and group behavior to support applications such as mobility planning, learning support, health monitoring, and human-robot collaboration. Approaches range from cognitive models of memory and decision-making to sequence and trajectory models, multimodal sensing, and language-model agents grounded in surveys, interviews, or behavioral histories. Evaluation spans choices in games and surveys, movement and mobility benchmarks, online learning logs, and robot interaction, with growing attention to uncertainty, calibration, and prediction at different time horizons. A central challenge is that strong individual predictions do not always reproduce population-level patterns: models can miss how people change their beliefs, compress human variation, or reflect training-data biases, while detailed behavioral histories also raise privacy risks.

Latest papers

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75 papers10 papers in the last four weeks, down 33% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. NeuroBRIDGE: Behavior-Conditioned Koopman Dynamics with Riemannian Alignment for Early Substance Use Initiation Prediction from Longitudinal Functional Connectome

    Mar 31, 2026Badhan Mazumder, Sir-Lord Wiafe, Vince D. Calhoun +1Human Behavior PredictionFunctional Connectivity

  2. From Astronomy to Astrology: Testing the Illusion of Zodiac-Based Personality Prediction with Machine Learning

    Mar 30, 2026Abhinna Sundar Samantaray, Finnja Annika Fluhrer, Dhruv Saini +3Human Behavior Prediction

  3. Signals of Success and Struggle: Early Prediction and Physiological Signatures of Human Performance across Task Complexity

    Mar 19, 2026Yufei Cao, Penny Sweetser, Ziyu Chen +1Human-Computer InteractionHuman Behavior Prediction

  4. Dual-Model Prediction of Affective Engagement and Vocal Attractiveness from Speaker Expressiveness in Video Learning

    Mar 19, 2026Hung-Yue Suen, Kuo-En Hung, Fan-Hsun TsengAffective ComputingHuman Behavior Prediction

  5. Alignment Makes Language Models Normative, Not Descriptive

    Mar 17, 2026Eilam Shapira, Moshe Tennenholtz, Roi ReichartLLM AlignmentPreference Alignment

  6. Monitoring and Prediction of Mood in Elderly People during Daily Life Activities

    Mar 11, 2026Daniel Bautista-Salinas, Joaquín Roca González, Inmaculada Méndez +1Affective ComputingHuman Behavior Prediction

  7. A Dynamic Bayesian and Machine Learning Framework for Quantitative Evaluation and Prediction of Operator Situation Awareness in Nuclear Power Plants

    Mar 11, 2026Shuai Chen, Huiqiao Jia, Tao Qing +2Human Behavior PredictionCognitive Modeling

  8. Decision-Aware Uncertainty Evaluation of Vision-Language Model-Based Early Action Anticipation for Human-Robot Interaction

    Mar 9, 2026Zhaoda Du, Michael Bowman, Qiaojie Zheng +1Uncertainty Estimation for VLA ModelsVLMs for Robotics

  9. Learning Next Action Predictors from Human-Computer Interaction

    Mar 6, 2026Omar Shaikh, Valentin Teutschbein, Kanishk Gandhi +8Human-Computer InteractionNext-Action Prediction

  10. Predicting Tennis Serve directions with Machine Learning

    Feb 26, 2026Ying Zhu, Ruthuparna NaikarNext-Action PredictionHuman Behavior Prediction

  11. HugAgent: A Human Simulation Benchmark for Individual-Level Reasoning

    Oct 16, 2025Chance Jiajie Li, Zhenze Mo, Yuhan Tang +11Cognitive ModelingHuman Behavior Simulation

  12. Predicting Effects, Missing Distributions: Evaluating LLMs as Human Behavior Simulators in Operations Management

    Sep 30, 2025Runze Zhang, Xiaowei Zhang, Mingyang ZhaoLLM EvaluationHuman Behavior Simulation

  13. LLM Agents Grounded in Self-Reports Enable General-Purpose Simulation of Individuals

    Nov 15, 2024Joon Sung Park, Carolyn Q. Zou, Jonne Kamphorst +8Personality Modeling in Language ModelsHuman Behavior Simulation