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How People Use ChatGPT in Australia: A WildChat Analysis
Ying Ma, Katy Gero, Clément Canonne +2
Generative AI chatbots are increasingly embedded in everyday life, yet most large-scale studies describe global patterns. This paper presents an Australia-focused analysis of WildC…
Probing How Users Interact with Turn-Level Design Frictions for AI Chatbots
Helen Weixu Chen, Katy Ilonka Gero
AI chatbots can help people write faster, but they can also encourage overreliance by making it easy to turn minimal input into usable text. We study turn-level design friction: in…
Seed Bank, Co-op, Stoop Swap: Metaphors for Governing Language Model Data for Creative Writing
Alicia Guo, Carly Schnitzler, Katy Gero
How might we govern a language model run for and by creative writers? While generative AI use is on the rise, many language models are created and owned in ways that limit writers'…
From Planning to Revision: How AI Writing Support at Different Stages Alters Ownership
Katy Ilonka Gero, Tao Long, Carly Schnitzler +1
Although AI assistance can improve writing quality, it can also decrease feelings of ownership. Ownership in writing has important implications for attribution, rights, norms, and…
A Paradigm for Creative Ownership
Tejaswi Polimetla, Katy Ilonka Gero, Elena Leah Glassman
As generative AI tools become embedded in creative practice, questions of ownership in co-creative contexts are pressing. Yet studies of human-AI collaboration often invoke "owners…
Not Just Novelty: A Longitudinal Study on Utility and Customization of an AI Workflow
Tao Long, Katy Ilonka Gero, Lydia B. Chilton
Generative AI brings novel and impressive abilities to help people in everyday tasks. There are many AI workflows that solve real and complex problems by chaining AI outputs togeth…
Tweetorial Hooks: Generative AI Tools to Motivate Science on Social Media
Tao Long, Dorothy Zhang, Grace Li +6
Communicating science and technology is essential for the public to understand and engage in a rapidly changing world. Tweetorials are an emerging phenomenon where experts explain…
Eliciting Gestures for Novel Note-taking Interactions
Katy Ilonka Gero, Lydia B. Chilton, Chris Melancon +1
Handwriting recognition is improving in leaps and bounds, and this opens up new opportunities for stylus-based interactions. In particular, note-taking applications can become a mo…
Lightweight Decoding Strategies for Increasing Specificity
Katy Ilonka Gero, Chris Kedzie, Savvas Petridis +1
Language models are known to produce vague and generic outputs. We propose two unsupervised decoding strategies based on either word-frequency or point-wise mutual information to i…