Designing Proactive Thought Partners for Writing
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arXiv:2609.01588v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Writing involves diverse cognitive activities, from ideation to revision, and writers' needs vary across individuals and moments. Proactive AI promis...
The paper proposes a proactive writing support system that infers users’ needs from their writing interactions, using Flower and Hayes’ cognitive process theory as a framework. By mapping six cognitive processes to 14 specific support types and associated interaction behaviors, the authors develop AToM CoWriter, which offers context-aware suggestions without requiring explicit prompts. Two within-subjects studies with 21 participants show that this approach improves expressiveness, idea exploration, and engagement with proactive suggestions.
CoWriter is a proactive agentic system that adapts expert human co‑authoring methodologies from cognitive science to guide the entire writing workflow and actively encourage user engagement. In an exploratory user study, authors using CoWriter expressed their perspectives more clearly, felt greater ownership of the document, and engaged with the agent 2.2× more often than a standard LLM baseline. External reader judges also rated CoWriter‑generated texts higher in human‑touch qualities such as storytelling and personal experience integration.
arXiv:2606. 11835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collecting participants' lived experiences is central to design research.
DocuTeam is a mixed‑initiative multi‑agent discussion system that allows both users and agents to start and steer conversations around evolving documents. Agents monitor changes to the document and proactively initiate or redirect discussions, while users can shape the dialogue or adopt agent suggestions. In a within‑subjects study with 20 participants, DocuTeam produced outcomes that were rated as more novel, relevant, and specific compared to a baseline, without increasing cognitive load.
arXiv:2609.14886v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online mental health communities thrive on peer support, yet those who volunteer to help often lack formal training and may struggle to articulate su...