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Who Plays Which Role When? Communication Role Dynamics for Peer Recognition and Team Performance Prediction
Yifan Song, Wenxuan Wendy Shi, Brian P Bailey +1
Team roles offer an interpretable lens on collaboration, yet computational studies of roles often rely on domain-specific personas or data-driven clustering rather than theory-grou…
Explain Like I'm 5 or Whatever I Choose: Evaluating the Potential for Interactive Complexity in Language Model Responses
Indu Panigrahi, Tal August
Given the increased use of large language models (LLMs) for reading and seeking information and the varying needs and backgrounds of users, direct manipulation of text can be a val…
Re-Centering Humans in LLM Personalization
Lechen Zhang, Jiarui Liu, Tal August
Despite growing interest, most evaluations of large language models' (LLMs') personalization abilities have relied on synthetic data. It remains unclear how well current personaliz…
FOXGLOVE: Understanding Goal-Oriented and Anchored Writing Feedback from Experts and LLMs on Argumentative Essays
Yijun Liu, Yifan Song, John Gallagher +2
While large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate writing feedback, there remains no systematic comparison of LLM and expert feedback on the dimensions that writ…
From Words to Widgets for Controllable LLM Generation
Chao Zhang, Yiren Liu, Lunyiu Nie +3
Natural language remains the predominant way people interact with large language models (LLMs). However, users often struggle to precisely express and control subjective preference…
SocialVeil: Probing Social Intelligence of Language Agents under Communication Barriers
Keyang Xuan, Pengda Wang, Chongrui Ye +3
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly evaluated in interactive environments to test their social intelligence. However, existing benchmarks often assume idealized communica…
From Crafting Text to Crafting Thought: Grounding AI Writing Support to Writing Center Pedagogy
Yijun Liu, John Gallagher, Sarah Sterman +1
As AI writing tools evolve from fixing surface errors to creating language with writers, new capabilities raise concerns about negative impacts on student writers, such as replacin…
Living Contracts: Beyond Document-Centric Interaction with Legal Agreements
Ziheng Huang, Robin Kar, Hari Sundaram +1
User interaction with legal contracts has been limited to document reading, which is often complicated by complex, ambiguous legal language. We explore possible futures where contr…
MultiSessionCollab: Learning User Preferences with Memory to Improve Long-Term Collaboration
Shuhaib Mehri, Priyanka Kargupta, Tal August +1
As conversational agents accumulate experience collaborating with users, adapting to user preferences is essential for fostering long-term relationships and improving collaboration…
On the Regulatory Potential of User Interfaces for AI Agent Governance
K. J. Kevin Feng, Tae Soo Kim, Rock Yuren Pang +3
AI agents that take actions in their environment autonomously over extended time horizons require robust governance interventions to curb their potentially consequential risks. Pri…
Designing Beyond Language: Sociotechnical Barriers in AI Health Technologies for Limited English Proficiency
Michelle Huang, Violeta J. Rodriguez, Koustuv Saha +1
Limited English proficiency (LEP) patients in the U.S. face systemic barriers to healthcare beyond language and interpreter access, encompassing procedural and institutional constr…
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…
Breaking the Curse of Knowledge: Designing Personalized Jargon Support for Real-Time Online Meetings
Yifan Song, Yijun Liu, Wing Yee Au +3
Cross-disciplinary communication is often hindered by specialized language (i.e., jargon) and uneven background knowledge. Recent advances in speech-to-text and large language mode…
Research Borderlands: Analysing Writing Across Research Cultures
Shaily Bhatt, Tal August, Maria Antoniak
Improving cultural competence of language technologies is important. However most recent works rarely engage with the communities they study, and instead rely on synthetic setups a…
TermSight: Making Service Contracts Approachable
Ziheng Huang, Tal August, Hari Sundaram
Legal contracts govern much of our society, but their specialized language is difficult for non-experts to read. While AI has enabled simplification of complex language, legal cont…
Uncertainty in Action: Confidence Elicitation in Embodied Agents
Tianjiao Yu, Vedant Shah, Muntasir Wahed +4
Expressing confidence is challenging for embodied agents navigating dynamic multimodal environments, where uncertainty arises from both perception and decision-making processes. We…
Automatic Detection of Research Values from Scientific Abstracts Across Computer Science Subfields
Hang Jiang, Tal August, Luca Soldaini +2
The field of Computer science (CS) has rapidly evolved over the past few decades, providing computational tools and methodologies to various fields and forming new interdisciplinar…
Tree-of-Debate: Multi-Persona Debate Trees Elicit Critical Thinking for Scientific Comparative Analysis
Priyanka Kargupta, Ishika Agarwal, Tal August +1
With the exponential growth of research facilitated by modern technology and improved accessibility, scientific discoveries have become increasingly fragmented within and across fi…
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…
Mathfish: Evaluating Language Model Math Reasoning via Grounding in Educational Curricula
Li Lucy, Tal August, Rose E. Wang +3
To ensure that math curriculum is grade-appropriate and aligns with critical skills or concepts in accordance with educational standards, pedagogical experts can spend months caref…
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…
Know Your Audience: The benefits and pitfalls of generating plain language summaries beyond the "general" audience
Tal August, Kyle Lo, Noah A. Smith +1
Language models (LMs) show promise as tools for communicating science to the general public by simplifying and summarizing complex language. Because models can be prompted to gener…
Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling
Hang Jiang, Xiajie Zhang, Robert Mahari +8
Making legal knowledge accessible to non-experts is crucial for enhancing general legal literacy and encouraging civic participation in democracy. However, legal documents are ofte…
Personalized Jargon Identification for Enhanced Interdisciplinary Communication
Yue Guo, Joseph Chee Chang, Maria Antoniak +4
Scientific jargon can impede researchers when they read materials from other domains. Current methods of jargon identification mainly use corpus-level familiarity indicators (e.g.,…