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most citedA Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants

132 citations · 200 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.AI2025

HARPA: A Testability-Driven, Literature-Grounded Framework for Research Ideation

Rosni Vasu, Peter Jansen, Pao Siangliulue +4

While there has been a surge of interest in automated scientific discovery (ASD), especially with the emergence of LLMs, it remains challenging for tools to generate hypotheses tha…

cs.HC2025

Perspectra: Choosing Your Experts Enhances Critical Thinking in Multi-Agent Research Ideation

Yiren Liu, Viraj Shah, Sangho Suh +3

Recent advances in multi-agent systems (MAS) enable tools for information search and ideation by assigning personas to agents. However, how users can effectively control, steer, an…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

Literature-Grounded Novelty Assessment of Scientific Ideas

Simra Shahid, Marissa Radensky, Raymond Fok +3

Automated scientific idea generation systems have made remarkable progress, yet the automatic evaluation of idea novelty remains a critical and underexplored challenge. Manual eval…

cs.HC2025

Facets, Taxonomies, and Syntheses: Navigating Structured Representations in LLM-Assisted Literature Review

Raymond Fok, Joseph Chee Chang, Marissa Radensky +4

Comprehensive literature review requires synthesizing vast amounts of research -- a labor intensive and cognitively demanding process. Most prior work focuses either on helping res…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

CodeScientist: End-to-End Semi-Automated Scientific Discovery with Code-based Experimentation

Peter Jansen, Oyvind Tafjord, Marissa Radensky +6

Despite the surge of interest in autonomous scientific discovery (ASD) of software artifacts (e.g., improved ML algorithms), current ASD systems face two key limitations: (1) they…

cs.HC2024

Cocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI Agents

K. J. Kevin Feng, Kevin Pu, Matt Latzke +6

As AI agents take on increasingly long-running tasks involving sophisticated planning and execution, there is a corresponding need for novel interaction designs that enable deeper…

cs.CL2024

ArxivDIGESTables: Synthesizing Scientific Literature into Tables using Language Models

Benjamin Newman, Yoonjoo Lee, Aakanksha Naik +6

When conducting literature reviews, scientists often create literature review tables - tables whose rows are publications and whose columns constitute a schema, a set of aspects us…

cs.HC2024★ 14 cited

IdeaSynth: Iterative Research Idea Development Through Evolving and Composing Idea Facets with Literature-Grounded Feedback

Kevin Pu, K. J. Kevin Feng, Tovi Grossman +6

Research ideation involves broad exploring and deep refining ideas. Both require deep engagement with literature. Existing tools focus primarily on idea broad generation, yet offer…

cs.HC2024★ 6 cited

Human-LLM Compound System for Scientific Ideation through Facet Recombination and Novelty Evaluation

Marissa Radensky, Simra Shahid, Raymond Fok +3

The scientific ideation process often involves blending facets of existing papers to create new ideas. We contribute Scideator, the first human-LLM system for facet-based scientifi…

cs.HC2024★ 2 cited

Papers-to-Posts: Supporting Detailed Long-Document Summarization with an Interactive LLM-Powered Source Outline

Marissa Radensky, Daniel S. Weld, Joseph Chee Chang +2

Compressing long and technical documents (e.g., >10 pages) into shorter-form articles (e.g., <2 pages) is critical for communicating information to different audiences, for example…

cs.HC2024★ 132 cited

A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants

Mina Lee, Katy Ilonka Gero, John Joon Young Chung +33

In our era of rapid technological advancement, the research landscape for writing assistants has become increasingly fragmented across various research communities. We seek to addr…

cs.DL2024★ 20 cited

PaperWeaver: Enriching Topical Paper Alerts by Contextualizing Recommended Papers with User-collected Papers

Yoonjoo Lee, Hyeonsu B. Kang, Matt Latzke +4

With the rapid growth of scholarly archives, researchers subscribe to "paper alert" systems that periodically provide them with recommendations of recently published papers that ar…

cs.HC2023★ 8 cited

The Semantic Reader Project: Augmenting Scholarly Documents through AI-Powered Interactive Reading Interfaces

Kyle Lo, Joseph Chee Chang, Andrew Head +52

Scholarly publications are key to the transfer of knowledge from scholars to others. However, research papers are information-dense, and as the volume of the scientific literature…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Beyond Summarization: Designing AI Support for Real-World Expository Writing Tasks

Zejiang Shen, Tal August, Pao Siangliulue +6

Large language models have introduced exciting new opportunities and challenges in designing and developing new AI-assisted writing support tools. Recent work has shown that levera…

cs.HC2021★ 12 cited

Ask Me or Tell Me? Enhancing the Effectiveness of Crowdsourced Design Feedback

Fritz Lekschas, Spyridon Ampanavos, Pao Siangliulue +2

Crowdsourced design feedback systems are emerging resources for getting large amounts of feedback in a short period of time. Traditionally, the feedback comes in the form of a decl…