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20242026
most citedThe Use of Generative Search Engines for Knowledge Work and Complex Tasks

6 citations · 14 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.AI2026

TeleTune: Evolving Agent Skills From Offline Telemetry

Justin Chih-Yao Chen, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Yan Chen +6

Computer-use agents need to capture procedural knowledge of how people use software. User telemetry offers a scalable source of this knowledge. However, learning reusable skills fr…

cs.HC2026

From Images to Tasks: Characterizing Multimodal LLM Interactions in the Wild

Jinyi Ye, Scott Counts, Gaurav Verma +2

Multimodal large language models (LLMs) increasingly integrate vision and text, yet how people use them in natural settings remains underexplored. We seek to answer the question: w…

cs.CL2026

Rhythms of Work: Multi-Scale Interpretation of Human Behavioral Traces for Workplace Agents

Lin Ai, Scott Counts

Runtime traces are becoming a central substrate for understanding agentic systems, yet interpretation has focused largely on what the agent did. Workplace agents face the complemen…

cs.HC2026

Adoption of Generative AI in the Workplace: Increasing and Shifting the Balance of Productivity and Communication Activity

Yulin Yu, Yan Chen, Rui Hu +2

Generative AI is transforming the workplace by augmenting and automating cognitive tasks, reshaping how organizations work and innovate while raising questions about workplace ineq…

cs.AI2026

Abstracting Cross-Domain Action Sequences into Interpretable Workflows

Gaurav Verma, Scott Counts

Sequential or time-stamped interaction logs provide objective records of digital application usage, yet their granularity and noise often obscure meaningful insights into people's…

cs.CY2026

AI in the Enterprise: How People Use M365 Copilot Chat

Scott Counts, Yan Chen, Jing Dong +9

M365 Copilot is used every week by millions of people across more than a million companies around the world as part of their workflows. Uniquely positioned in the AI landscape give…

cs.HC2026

From Searchable to Non-Searchable: Generative AI and Information Diversity in Online Information Seeking

Yulin Yu, Yizhou Li, Siddharth Suri +3

Conversational generative AI systems such as ChatGPT are transforming how people seek and engage with information online. Unlike traditional search engines, these systems support o…

cs.AI2025★ 4 cited

Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations

Kiran Tomlinson, Sonia Jaffe, Will Wang +2

With generative AI emerging as a general-purpose technology, understanding its economic effects is among society's most pressing questions. Earlier work on AI impact largely relied…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

Speaking the Right Language: The Impact of Expertise Alignment in User-AI Interactions

Shramay Palta, Nirupama Chandrasekaran, Rachel Rudinger +1

Using a sample of 25,000 Bing Copilot conversations, we study how the agent responds to users of varying levels of domain expertise and the resulting impact on user experience alon…

cs.IR2024★ 6 cited

The Use of Generative Search Engines for Knowledge Work and Complex Tasks

Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts, Leijie Wang +11

Until recently, search engines were the predominant method for people to access online information. The recent emergence of large language models (LLMs) has given machines new capa…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

TnT-LLM: Text Mining at Scale with Large Language Models

Mengting Wan, Tara Safavi, Sujay Kumar Jauhar +11

Transforming unstructured text into structured and meaningful forms, organized by useful category labels, is a fundamental step in text mining for downstream analysis and applicati…

cs.IR2024

Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models

Ying-Chun Lin, Jennifer Neville, Jack W. Stokes +14

Accurate and interpretable user satisfaction estimation (USE) is critical for understanding, evaluating, and continuously improving conversational systems. Users express their sati…