Adrien Baranes

Adrien Baranes is a User Experience (UX) and Research Engineer at Google Research / Google DeepMind, focused on human-computer interaction, machine intelligence, natural language processing, large language models, user-centered research, complex system dynamics simulations, and data privacy. He co-authored Google DeepMind’s 2026 research post on an AI-enabled mouse pointer powered by Gemini.

The Mouse Pointer Becomes a Reference Tool for AI Interfaces

Google DeepMind researcher Adrien Baranes argues that the mouse pointer can become more than a tool for selecting and clicking. In an experimental prototype, he presents the cursor as an AI-mediated reference layer: a way for Gemini to connect words such as “this,” “that,” and “here” to the precise objects, app data, and screen content a user is indicating. The aim is to make pointing function as shared context between a person and an AI system across documents, calendars, maps, and images.

Google DeepMindMay 13, 20265 min read