10 papers
Querying Multimodal Scientific Papers with AI: Practices and Preferences Across Blind, Low-Vision, and Sighted Scientists
Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Lucy Lu Wang, Joseph Chee Chang +1
Visual diagrams, figures, and tables are central to scientific papers, and convey information beyond what is captured in text. While blind or low-vision (BLV) scientists have tradi…
DRACULA: Hunting for the Actions Users Want Deep Research Agents to Execute
Nishant Balepur, Malachi Hamada, Varsha Kishore +9
Scientific Deep Research (DR) agents answer user queries by synthesizing research papers into multi-section reports. User feedback can improve their utility, but existing protocols…
Language Models Don't Know What You Want: Evaluating Personalization in Deep Research Needs Real Users
Nishant Balepur, Malachi Hamada, Varsha Kishore +7
Deep Research (DR) systems help researchers cope with ballooning publishing counts. Such tools synthesize scientific papers to answer research queries, but lack understanding of th…
LitPivot: Developing Well-Situated Research Ideas Through Dynamic Contextualization and Critique within the Literature Landscape
Hita Kambhamettu, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Andrew Head +4
Developing a novel research idea is hard. It must be distinct enough from prior work to claim a contribution while also building on it. This requires iteratively reviewing literatu…
Omakase: proactive assistance with actionable suggestions for evolving scientific research projects
Pao Siangliulue, Jonathan Bragg, Doug Downey +2
As AI agents become increasingly capable of complex knowledge tasks, the lack of context limits their capability to proactively reason about a user's latent needs throughout a long…
Understanding Usage and Engagement in AI-Powered Scientific Research Tools: The Asta Interaction Dataset
Dany Haddad, Dan Bareket, Joseph Chee Chang +19
AI-powered scientific research tools are rapidly being integrated into research workflows, yet the field lacks a clear lens into how researchers use these systems in real-world set…