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Tools for Thought

Better thinking through AI
A People-Centric AI Project

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- Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools
  
  Pia Kreijkes, Viktor Kewenig, Martina Kuvalja, Mina Lee, Jake Hofman, Sylvia Vitello, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Daniel G. Goldstein, David Rothschild, Lev Tankelevitch, Tim Oates
  
  Computers & Education | November 2025
  
  Preprint PDF Project Project Project
- TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI: A Synthesis of the CHI 2025 Tools for Thought Workshop
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ArXiv | August 2025
  
  Preprint
- Designing Interfaces that Support Temporal Work Across Meetings with Generative AI
  
  Rishi Vanukuru, Payod Panda, Xinyue Chen, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  DIS2025 | July 2025
  
  Preprint DOI Project Project
- Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks
  
  Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Microsoft Foundry Labs
  
  PDF DOI Video Access Project Project
- What Does Success Look Like? Catalyzing Meeting Intentionality with AI-Assisted Prospective Reflection
  
  Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Payod Panda, Rishi Vanukuru, Xinyue Chen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Preprint DOI Project Project Project
- AI, Help Me Think—but for Myself: Assisting People in Complex Decision-Making by Providing Different Kinds of Cognitive Support
  
  Leon Reicherts, Zelun Tony Zhang, Elisabeth von Oswald, Yuanting Liu, Yvonne Rogers, Mariam Hassib
  
  CHI 2025 | May 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Are We On Track? AI-Assisted Active and Passive Goal Reflection During Meetings
  
  Xinyue Chen, Lev Tankelevitch, Rishi Vanukuru, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Payod Panda, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  
  Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, Nicholas Wilson
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Majeed Kazemitabaar, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025) | April 2025
  
  PDF
- YES AND: A Generative AI Multi-Agent Framework for Enhancing Diversity of Thought in Individual Ideation for Problem-Solving Through Confidence-Based Agent Turn-Taking
  
  Pratik Ghosh, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project
- The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education
  
  Auste Simkute, Viktor Kewenig, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  arxiv | January 2025
  
  Preprint Project Project
- The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025
  
  Richard Banks, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Leon Reicherts, Pratik Ghosh
  
  December 2024
  
  Publication
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  October 2024
  
  CACM Cover Story
  
  Author's Version DOI Video Project Project
- Improving Steering and Verification in AI-Assisted Data Analysis with Interactive Task Decomposition
  
  Majeed Kazemitabaar, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Tovi Grossman, Austin Henley, Carina Negreanu, Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology | October 2024
  
  Preprint
- Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction
  
  Auste Simkute, Lev Tankelevitch, Victor Kewenig, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction | October 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Predictability of identifier naming with Copilot: A case study for mixed-initiative programming tools
  
  Michael Jing Long Lee, Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell
  
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024) | October 2024
  
  PDF Publication Project
- Commentary: Productivity implications for generative AI role-based prompts as a networked hermeneutic
  
  Sean Rintel
  
  Discourse & Communication | August 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project
- The CoExplorer Technology Probe: A Generative AI-Powered Adaptive Interface to Support Intentionality in Planning and Running Video Meetings
  
  Gun Woo (Warren) Park, Payod Panda, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  DIS 2024 | July 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Evolving Roles and Workflows of Creative Practitioners in the Age of Generative AI
  
  Srishti Palani, Gonzalo Ramos
  
  Creativity and Cognition | June 2024
  
  Publication
- “It’s like a rubber duck that talks back”: Understanding Generative AI-Assisted Data Analysis Workflows through a Participatory Prompting Study
  
  Ian Drosos, Advait Sarkar, Xiaotong Xu, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  CHIWORK 2024 | June 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project
- CoExplorer: Generative AI Powered 2D and 3D Adaptive Interfaces to Support Intentionality in Video Meetings
  
  Gun Woo (Warren) Park, Payod Panda, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI EA 2024 | May 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
  
  PDF Project
- Mental Models of Meeting Goals: Supporting Intentionality in Meeting Technologies
  
  Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI 2024 | May 2024
  
  PDF DOI Publication Project
- The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI ’24 | May 2024
  
  Best Paper, CHI 2024
  
  Preprint DOI Preprint Video Project Project
- Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and mitigating productivity loss in human-AI interactions
  
  Auste Simkute, Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  February 2024
  
  Author's Version Project
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Nancy Baym, Mary Czerwinski, Shamsi Iqbal, Kate Nowak, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Najeeb G. Abdulhamid, Judith Amores, Reid Andersen, Kagonya Awori, Maxamed Axmed, danah boyd, James Brand, Georg Buscher, Dean Carignan, Martin Chan, Adam Coleman, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Adam Fourney, Daniel G. Goldstein, Andy Gordon, Aaron L Halfaker, Javier Hernandez, Jake Hofman, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Vera Liao, Siân Lindley, Sathish Manivannan, Charlton Mcilwain, Subigya Nepal, Jennifer Neville, Stephanie Nyairo, Jacki O'Neill, Victor Poznanski, Gonzalo Ramos, Nagu Rangan, Lacey Rosedale, David Rothschild, Tara Safavi, Advait Sarkar, Ava Scott, Chirag Shah, Neha Parikh Shah, Teny Shapiro, Ryland Shaw, Auste Simkute, Jina Suh, Siddharth Suri, Ioana Tanase, Lev Tankelevitch, Adam Troy, Mengting Wan, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan
  
  MSR-TR-2023-34 | December 2023
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- ColDeco: An End User Spreadsheet Inspection Tool for AI-Generated Code
  
  Kasra Ferdowsi, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Nadia Polikarpova, Advait Sarkar, Ben Zorn
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing | October 2023
  
  Publication Project Project
- Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows
  
  Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Robert DeLIne, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2023) | August 2023
  
  PDF Project Project
- Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2023) | June 2023
  
  PDF DOI Project

- Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools
  
  Pia Kreijkes, Viktor Kewenig, Martina Kuvalja, Mina Lee, Jake Hofman, Sylvia Vitello, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Daniel G. Goldstein, David Rothschild, Lev Tankelevitch, Tim Oates
  
  Computers & Education | November 2025
  
  Preprint PDF Project Project Project
- TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI: A Synthesis of the CHI 2025 Tools for Thought Workshop
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ArXiv | August 2025
  
  Preprint
- Designing Interfaces that Support Temporal Work Across Meetings with Generative AI
  
  Rishi Vanukuru, Payod Panda, Xinyue Chen, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  DIS2025 | July 2025
  
  Preprint DOI Project Project
- Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks
  
  Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Microsoft Foundry Labs
  
  PDF DOI Video Access Project Project
- What Does Success Look Like? Catalyzing Meeting Intentionality with AI-Assisted Prospective Reflection
  
  Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Payod Panda, Rishi Vanukuru, Xinyue Chen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Preprint DOI Project Project Project
- AI, Help Me Think—but for Myself: Assisting People in Complex Decision-Making by Providing Different Kinds of Cognitive Support
  
  Leon Reicherts, Zelun Tony Zhang, Elisabeth von Oswald, Yuanting Liu, Yvonne Rogers, Mariam Hassib
  
  CHI 2025 | May 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Majeed Kazemitabaar, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025) | April 2025
  
  PDF
- YES AND: A Generative AI Multi-Agent Framework for Enhancing Diversity of Thought in Individual Ideation for Problem-Solving Through Confidence-Based Agent Turn-Taking
  
  Pratik Ghosh, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  
  Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, Nicholas Wilson
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Are We On Track? AI-Assisted Active and Passive Goal Reflection During Meetings
  
  Xinyue Chen, Lev Tankelevitch, Rishi Vanukuru, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Payod Panda, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education
  
  Auste Simkute, Viktor Kewenig, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  arxiv | January 2025
  
  Preprint Project Project
- The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025
  
  Richard Banks, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Leon Reicherts, Pratik Ghosh
  
  December 2024
  
  Publication
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction
  
  Auste Simkute, Lev Tankelevitch, Victor Kewenig, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction | October 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Predictability of identifier naming with Copilot: A case study for mixed-initiative programming tools
  
  Michael Jing Long Lee, Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell
  
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024) | October 2024
  
  PDF Publication Project
- Improving Steering and Verification in AI-Assisted Data Analysis with Interactive Task Decomposition
  
  Majeed Kazemitabaar, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Tovi Grossman, Austin Henley, Carina Negreanu, Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology | October 2024
  
  Preprint
- AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  October 2024
  
  CACM Cover Story
  
  Author's Version DOI Video Project Project
- Commentary: Productivity implications for generative AI role-based prompts as a networked hermeneutic
  
  Sean Rintel
  
  Discourse & Communication | August 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project
- The CoExplorer Technology Probe: A Generative AI-Powered Adaptive Interface to Support Intentionality in Planning and Running Video Meetings
  
  Gun Woo (Warren) Park, Payod Panda, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  DIS 2024 | July 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Evolving Roles and Workflows of Creative Practitioners in the Age of Generative AI
  
  Srishti Palani, Gonzalo Ramos
  
  Creativity and Cognition | June 2024
  
  Publication
- “It’s like a rubber duck that talks back”: Understanding Generative AI-Assisted Data Analysis Workflows through a Participatory Prompting Study
  
  Ian Drosos, Advait Sarkar, Xiaotong Xu, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  CHIWORK 2024 | June 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
  
  PDF Project
- CoExplorer: Generative AI Powered 2D and 3D Adaptive Interfaces to Support Intentionality in Video Meetings
  
  Gun Woo (Warren) Park, Payod Panda, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI EA 2024 | May 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project
- The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI ’24 | May 2024
  
  Best Paper, CHI 2024
  
  Preprint DOI Preprint Video Project Project
- Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and mitigating productivity loss in human-AI interactions
  
  Auste Simkute, Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  February 2024
  
  Author's Version Project
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Nancy Baym, Mary Czerwinski, Shamsi Iqbal, Kate Nowak, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Najeeb G. Abdulhamid, Judith Amores, Reid Andersen, Kagonya Awori, Maxamed Axmed, danah boyd, James Brand, Georg Buscher, Dean Carignan, Martin Chan, Adam Coleman, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Adam Fourney, Daniel G. Goldstein, Andy Gordon, Aaron L Halfaker, Javier Hernandez, Jake Hofman, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Vera Liao, Siân Lindley, Sathish Manivannan, Charlton Mcilwain, Subigya Nepal, Jennifer Neville, Stephanie Nyairo, Jacki O'Neill, Victor Poznanski, Gonzalo Ramos, Nagu Rangan, Lacey Rosedale, David Rothschild, Tara Safavi, Advait Sarkar, Ava Scott, Chirag Shah, Neha Parikh Shah, Teny Shapiro, Ryland Shaw, Auste Simkute, Jina Suh, Siddharth Suri, Ioana Tanase, Lev Tankelevitch, Adam Troy, Mengting Wan, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan
  
  MSR-TR-2023-34 | December 2023
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- ColDeco: An End User Spreadsheet Inspection Tool for AI-Generated Code
  
  Kasra Ferdowsi, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Nadia Polikarpova, Advait Sarkar, Ben Zorn
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing | October 2023
  
  Publication Project Project
- Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows
  
  Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Robert DeLIne, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2023) | August 2023
  
  PDF Project Project
- Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2023) | June 2023
  
  PDF DOI Project
- TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Majeed Kazemitabaar, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025) | April 2025
  
  PDF
- AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  October 2024
  
  CACM Cover Story
  
  Author's Version DOI Video Project Project
- Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
  
  PDF Project
- Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows
  
  Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Robert DeLIne, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2023) | August 2023
  
  PDF Project Project
- Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools
  
  Pia Kreijkes, Viktor Kewenig, Martina Kuvalja, Mina Lee, Jake Hofman, Sylvia Vitello, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Daniel G. Goldstein, David Rothschild, Lev Tankelevitch, Tim Oates
  
  Computers & Education | November 2025
  
  Preprint PDF Project Project Project
- TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI: A Synthesis of the CHI 2025 Tools for Thought Workshop
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ArXiv | August 2025
  
  Preprint
- Designing Interfaces that Support Temporal Work Across Meetings with Generative AI
  
  Rishi Vanukuru, Payod Panda, Xinyue Chen, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  DIS2025 | July 2025
  
  Preprint DOI Project Project
- Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks
  
  Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Microsoft Foundry Labs
  
  PDF DOI Video Access Project Project
- What Does Success Look Like? Catalyzing Meeting Intentionality with AI-Assisted Prospective Reflection
  
  Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Payod Panda, Rishi Vanukuru, Xinyue Chen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Preprint DOI Project Project Project
- AI, Help Me Think—but for Myself: Assisting People in Complex Decision-Making by Providing Different Kinds of Cognitive Support
  
  Leon Reicherts, Zelun Tony Zhang, Elisabeth von Oswald, Yuanting Liu, Yvonne Rogers, Mariam Hassib
  
  CHI 2025 | May 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Majeed Kazemitabaar, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025) | April 2025
  
  PDF
- YES AND: A Generative AI Multi-Agent Framework for Enhancing Diversity of Thought in Individual Ideation for Problem-Solving Through Confidence-Based Agent Turn-Taking
  
  Pratik Ghosh, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  
  Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, Nicholas Wilson
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Are We On Track? AI-Assisted Active and Passive Goal Reflection During Meetings
  
  Xinyue Chen, Lev Tankelevitch, Rishi Vanukuru, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Payod Panda, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education
  
  Auste Simkute, Viktor Kewenig, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  arxiv | January 2025
  
  Preprint Project Project
- The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025
  
  Richard Banks, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Leon Reicherts, Pratik Ghosh
  
  December 2024
  
  Publication
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction
  
  Auste Simkute, Lev Tankelevitch, Victor Kewenig, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction | October 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Predictability of identifier naming with Copilot: A case study for mixed-initiative programming tools
  
  Michael Jing Long Lee, Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell
  
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024) | October 2024
  
  PDF Publication Project
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  Majeed Kazemitabaar, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Tovi Grossman, Austin Henley, Carina Negreanu, Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology | October 2024
  
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  October 2024
  
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  Discourse & Communication | August 2024
  
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  Gun Woo (Warren) Park, Payod Panda, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  DIS 2024 | July 2024
  
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- Evolving Roles and Workflows of Creative Practitioners in the Age of Generative AI
  
  Srishti Palani, Gonzalo Ramos
  
  Creativity and Cognition | June 2024
  
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  Ian Drosos, Advait Sarkar, Xiaotong Xu, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  CHIWORK 2024 | June 2024
  
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- Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
  
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- CoExplorer: Generative AI Powered 2D and 3D Adaptive Interfaces to Support Intentionality in Video Meetings
  
  Gun Woo (Warren) Park, Payod Panda, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI EA 2024 | May 2024
  
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- Mental Models of Meeting Goals: Supporting Intentionality in Meeting Technologies
  
  Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI 2024 | May 2024
  
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  Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI ’24 | May 2024
  
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- Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and mitigating productivity loss in human-AI interactions
  
  Auste Simkute, Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  February 2024
  
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- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Nancy Baym, Mary Czerwinski, Shamsi Iqbal, Kate Nowak, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Najeeb G. Abdulhamid, Judith Amores, Reid Andersen, Kagonya Awori, Maxamed Axmed, danah boyd, James Brand, Georg Buscher, Dean Carignan, Martin Chan, Adam Coleman, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Adam Fourney, Daniel G. Goldstein, Andy Gordon, Aaron L Halfaker, Javier Hernandez, Jake Hofman, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Vera Liao, Siân Lindley, Sathish Manivannan, Charlton Mcilwain, Subigya Nepal, Jennifer Neville, Stephanie Nyairo, Jacki O'Neill, Victor Poznanski, Gonzalo Ramos, Nagu Rangan, Lacey Rosedale, David Rothschild, Tara Safavi, Advait Sarkar, Ava Scott, Chirag Shah, Neha Parikh Shah, Teny Shapiro, Ryland Shaw, Auste Simkute, Jina Suh, Siddharth Suri, Ioana Tanase, Lev Tankelevitch, Adam Troy, Mengting Wan, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan
  
  MSR-TR-2023-34 | December 2023
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
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- ColDeco: An End User Spreadsheet Inspection Tool for AI-Generated Code
  
  Kasra Ferdowsi, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Nadia Polikarpova, Advait Sarkar, Ben Zorn
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing | October 2023
  
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- Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows
  
  Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Robert DeLIne, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2023) | August 2023
  
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- Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2023) | June 2023
  
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- Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools
  
  Pia Kreijkes, Viktor Kewenig, Martina Kuvalja, Mina Lee, Jake Hofman, Sylvia Vitello, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Daniel G. Goldstein, David Rothschild, Lev Tankelevitch, Tim Oates
  
  Computers & Education | November 2025
  
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- Designing Interfaces that Support Temporal Work Across Meetings with Generative AI
  
  Rishi Vanukuru, Payod Panda, Xinyue Chen, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  DIS2025 | July 2025
  
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- Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks
  
  Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Microsoft Foundry Labs
  
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- AI, Help Me Think—but for Myself: Assisting People in Complex Decision-Making by Providing Different Kinds of Cognitive Support
  
  Leon Reicherts, Zelun Tony Zhang, Elisabeth von Oswald, Yuanting Liu, Yvonne Rogers, Mariam Hassib
  
  CHI 2025 | May 2025
  
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- YES AND: A Generative AI Multi-Agent Framework for Enhancing Diversity of Thought in Individual Ideation for Problem-Solving Through Confidence-Based Agent Turn-Taking
  
  Pratik Ghosh, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
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- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  
  Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, Nicholas Wilson
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
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- Are We On Track? AI-Assisted Active and Passive Goal Reflection During Meetings
  
  Xinyue Chen, Lev Tankelevitch, Rishi Vanukuru, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Payod Panda, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
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- The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education
  
  Auste Simkute, Viktor Kewenig, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  arxiv | January 2025
  
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- The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025
  
  Richard Banks, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Leon Reicherts, Pratik Ghosh
  
  December 2024
  
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- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
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- Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction
  
  Auste Simkute, Lev Tankelevitch, Victor Kewenig, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction | October 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  October 2024
  
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- Commentary: Productivity implications for generative AI role-based prompts as a networked hermeneutic
  
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  Discourse & Communication | August 2024
  
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- The CoExplorer Technology Probe: A Generative AI-Powered Adaptive Interface to Support Intentionality in Planning and Running Video Meetings
  
  Gun Woo (Warren) Park, Payod Panda, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  DIS 2024 | July 2024
  
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- “It’s like a rubber duck that talks back”: Understanding Generative AI-Assisted Data Analysis Workflows through a Participatory Prompting Study
  
  Ian Drosos, Advait Sarkar, Xiaotong Xu, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  CHIWORK 2024 | June 2024
  
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- Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
  
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  ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
  
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- CoExplorer: Generative AI Powered 2D and 3D Adaptive Interfaces to Support Intentionality in Video Meetings
  
  Gun Woo (Warren) Park, Payod Panda, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI EA 2024 | May 2024
  
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- Mental Models of Meeting Goals: Supporting Intentionality in Meeting Technologies
  
  Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI 2024 | May 2024
  
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- The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI ’24 | May 2024
  
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- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Nancy Baym, Mary Czerwinski, Shamsi Iqbal, Kate Nowak, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Najeeb G. Abdulhamid, Judith Amores, Reid Andersen, Kagonya Awori, Maxamed Axmed, danah boyd, James Brand, Georg Buscher, Dean Carignan, Martin Chan, Adam Coleman, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Adam Fourney, Daniel G. Goldstein, Andy Gordon, Aaron L Halfaker, Javier Hernandez, Jake Hofman, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Vera Liao, Siân Lindley, Sathish Manivannan, Charlton Mcilwain, Subigya Nepal, Jennifer Neville, Stephanie Nyairo, Jacki O'Neill, Victor Poznanski, Gonzalo Ramos, Nagu Rangan, Lacey Rosedale, David Rothschild, Tara Safavi, Advait Sarkar, Ava Scott, Chirag Shah, Neha Parikh Shah, Teny Shapiro, Ryland Shaw, Auste Simkute, Jina Suh, Siddharth Suri, Ioana Tanase, Lev Tankelevitch, Adam Troy, Mengting Wan, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan
  
  MSR-TR-2023-34 | December 2023
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
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- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
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- Improving Steering and Verification in AI-Assisted Data Analysis with Interactive Task Decomposition
  
  Majeed Kazemitabaar, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Tovi Grossman, Austin Henley, Carina Negreanu, Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology | October 2024
  
  Preprint
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Nancy Baym, Mary Czerwinski, Shamsi Iqbal, Kate Nowak, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Najeeb G. Abdulhamid, Judith Amores, Reid Andersen, Kagonya Awori, Maxamed Axmed, danah boyd, James Brand, Georg Buscher, Dean Carignan, Martin Chan, Adam Coleman, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Adam Fourney, Daniel G. Goldstein, Andy Gordon, Aaron L Halfaker, Javier Hernandez, Jake Hofman, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Vera Liao, Siân Lindley, Sathish Manivannan, Charlton Mcilwain, Subigya Nepal, Jennifer Neville, Stephanie Nyairo, Jacki O'Neill, Victor Poznanski, Gonzalo Ramos, Nagu Rangan, Lacey Rosedale, David Rothschild, Tara Safavi, Advait Sarkar, Ava Scott, Chirag Shah, Neha Parikh Shah, Teny Shapiro, Ryland Shaw, Auste Simkute, Jina Suh, Siddharth Suri, Ioana Tanase, Lev Tankelevitch, Adam Troy, Mengting Wan, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan
  
  MSR-TR-2023-34 | December 2023
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
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- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Nancy Baym, Mary Czerwinski, Shamsi Iqbal, Kate Nowak, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Najeeb G. Abdulhamid, Judith Amores, Reid Andersen, Kagonya Awori, Maxamed Axmed, danah boyd, James Brand, Georg Buscher, Dean Carignan, Martin Chan, Adam Coleman, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Adam Fourney, Daniel G. Goldstein, Andy Gordon, Aaron L Halfaker, Javier Hernandez, Jake Hofman, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Vera Liao, Siân Lindley, Sathish Manivannan, Charlton Mcilwain, Subigya Nepal, Jennifer Neville, Stephanie Nyairo, Jacki O'Neill, Victor Poznanski, Gonzalo Ramos, Nagu Rangan, Lacey Rosedale, David Rothschild, Tara Safavi, Advait Sarkar, Ava Scott, Chirag Shah, Neha Parikh Shah, Teny Shapiro, Ryland Shaw, Auste Simkute, Jina Suh, Siddharth Suri, Ioana Tanase, Lev Tankelevitch, Adam Troy, Mengting Wan, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan
  
  MSR-TR-2023-34 | December 2023
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
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- Predictability of identifier naming with Copilot: A case study for mixed-initiative programming tools
  
  Michael Jing Long Lee, Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell
  
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024) | October 2024
  
  PDF Publication Project
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Nancy Baym, Mary Czerwinski, Shamsi Iqbal, Kate Nowak, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Najeeb G. Abdulhamid, Judith Amores, Reid Andersen, Kagonya Awori, Maxamed Axmed, danah boyd, James Brand, Georg Buscher, Dean Carignan, Martin Chan, Adam Coleman, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Adam Fourney, Daniel G. Goldstein, Andy Gordon, Aaron L Halfaker, Javier Hernandez, Jake Hofman, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Vera Liao, Siân Lindley, Sathish Manivannan, Charlton Mcilwain, Subigya Nepal, Jennifer Neville, Stephanie Nyairo, Jacki O'Neill, Victor Poznanski, Gonzalo Ramos, Nagu Rangan, Lacey Rosedale, David Rothschild, Tara Safavi, Advait Sarkar, Ava Scott, Chirag Shah, Neha Parikh Shah, Teny Shapiro, Ryland Shaw, Auste Simkute, Jina Suh, Siddharth Suri, Ioana Tanase, Lev Tankelevitch, Adam Troy, Mengting Wan, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan
  
  MSR-TR-2023-34 | December 2023
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
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- ColDeco: An End User Spreadsheet Inspection Tool for AI-Generated Code
  
  Kasra Ferdowsi, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Nadia Polikarpova, Advait Sarkar, Ben Zorn
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing | October 2023
  
  Publication Project Project
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Nancy Baym, Mary Czerwinski, Shamsi Iqbal, Kate Nowak, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Najeeb G. Abdulhamid, Judith Amores, Reid Andersen, Kagonya Awori, Maxamed Axmed, danah boyd, James Brand, Georg Buscher, Dean Carignan, Martin Chan, Adam Coleman, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Adam Fourney, Daniel G. Goldstein, Andy Gordon, Aaron L Halfaker, Javier Hernandez, Jake Hofman, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Vera Liao, Siân Lindley, Sathish Manivannan, Charlton Mcilwain, Subigya Nepal, Jennifer Neville, Stephanie Nyairo, Jacki O'Neill, Victor Poznanski, Gonzalo Ramos, Nagu Rangan, Lacey Rosedale, David Rothschild, Tara Safavi, Advait Sarkar, Ava Scott, Chirag Shah, Neha Parikh Shah, Teny Shapiro, Ryland Shaw, Auste Simkute, Jina Suh, Siddharth Suri, Ioana Tanase, Lev Tankelevitch, Adam Troy, Mengting Wan, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan
  
  MSR-TR-2023-34 | December 2023
  
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- TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks
  
  September 2025
  
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- The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025
  
  Richard Banks, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Leon Reicherts, Pratik Ghosh
  
  December 2024
  
  Publication
- Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and mitigating productivity loss in human-AI interactions
  
  Auste Simkute, Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  February 2024
  
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- Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools
  
  Pia Kreijkes, Viktor Kewenig, Martina Kuvalja, Mina Lee, Jake Hofman, Sylvia Vitello, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Daniel G. Goldstein, David Rothschild, Lev Tankelevitch, Tim Oates
  
  Computers & Education | November 2025
  
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- Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI: A Synthesis of the CHI 2025 Tools for Thought Workshop
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ArXiv | August 2025
  
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- The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education
  
  Auste Simkute, Viktor Kewenig, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  arxiv | January 2025
  
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- Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction
  
  Auste Simkute, Lev Tankelevitch, Victor Kewenig, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction | October 2024
  
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- Commentary: Productivity implications for generative AI role-based prompts as a networked hermeneutic
  
  Sean Rintel
  
  Discourse & Communication | August 2024
  
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- Designing Interfaces that Support Temporal Work Across Meetings with Generative AI
  
  Rishi Vanukuru, Payod Panda, Xinyue Chen, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  DIS2025 | July 2025
  
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- Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks
  
  Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Microsoft Foundry Labs
  
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- What Does Success Look Like? Catalyzing Meeting Intentionality with AI-Assisted Prospective Reflection
  
  Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Payod Panda, Rishi Vanukuru, Xinyue Chen, Sean Rintel
  
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- AI, Help Me Think—but for Myself: Assisting People in Complex Decision-Making by Providing Different Kinds of Cognitive Support
  
  Leon Reicherts, Zelun Tony Zhang, Elisabeth von Oswald, Yuanting Liu, Yvonne Rogers, Mariam Hassib
  
  CHI 2025 | May 2025
  
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- Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Majeed Kazemitabaar, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025) | April 2025
  
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- YES AND: A Generative AI Multi-Agent Framework for Enhancing Diversity of Thought in Individual Ideation for Problem-Solving Through Confidence-Based Agent Turn-Taking
  
  Pratik Ghosh, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
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- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  
  Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, Nicholas Wilson
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
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  Xinyue Chen, Lev Tankelevitch, Rishi Vanukuru, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Payod Panda, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
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  Michael Jing Long Lee, Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell
  
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024) | October 2024
  
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- Improving Steering and Verification in AI-Assisted Data Analysis with Interactive Task Decomposition
  
  Majeed Kazemitabaar, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Tovi Grossman, Austin Henley, Carina Negreanu, Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology | October 2024
  
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  Creativity and Cognition | June 2024
  
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  Ian Drosos, Advait Sarkar, Xiaotong Xu, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  CHIWORK 2024 | June 2024
  
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- Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
  
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  ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
  
  PDF Project
- CoExplorer: Generative AI Powered 2D and 3D Adaptive Interfaces to Support Intentionality in Video Meetings
  
  Gun Woo (Warren) Park, Payod Panda, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI EA 2024 | May 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Mental Models of Meeting Goals: Supporting Intentionality in Meeting Technologies
  
  Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI 2024 | May 2024
  
  PDF DOI Publication Project
- The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI ’24 | May 2024
  
  Best Paper, CHI 2024
  
  Preprint DOI Preprint Video Project Project
- ColDeco: An End User Spreadsheet Inspection Tool for AI-Generated Code
  
  Kasra Ferdowsi, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Nadia Polikarpova, Advait Sarkar, Ben Zorn
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing | October 2023
  
  Publication Project Project
- Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows
  
  Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Robert DeLIne, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2023) | August 2023
  
  PDF Project Project
- Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2023) | June 2023
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Nancy Baym, Mary Czerwinski, Shamsi Iqbal, Kate Nowak, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Najeeb G. Abdulhamid, Judith Amores, Reid Andersen, Kagonya Awori, Maxamed Axmed, danah boyd, James Brand, Georg Buscher, Dean Carignan, Martin Chan, Adam Coleman, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Adam Fourney, Daniel G. Goldstein, Andy Gordon, Aaron L Halfaker, Javier Hernandez, Jake Hofman, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Vera Liao, Siân Lindley, Sathish Manivannan, Charlton Mcilwain, Subigya Nepal, Jennifer Neville, Stephanie Nyairo, Jacki O'Neill, Victor Poznanski, Gonzalo Ramos, Nagu Rangan, Lacey Rosedale, David Rothschild, Tara Safavi, Advait Sarkar, Ava Scott, Chirag Shah, Neha Parikh Shah, Teny Shapiro, Ryland Shaw, Auste Simkute, Jina Suh, Siddharth Suri, Ioana Tanase, Lev Tankelevitch, Adam Troy, Mengting Wan, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan
  
  MSR-TR-2023-34 | December 2023
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  October 2024
  
  CACM Cover Story
  
  Author's Version DOI Video Project Project

People

The Tools for Thought team is interdisciplinary, mixing experts in social science, computer science, engineering, and design. The team is co-lead by Richard Banks and Sean Rintel.

Members

Sean Rintel

Senior Principal Research Manager

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Richard Banks

Principal Design Manager

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Advait Sarkar

Senior Researcher

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Pratik Ghosh

Senior Research Designer

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Martin Grayson

Principal Research Software Development Engineer

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Britta Burlin

Principal Design Manager

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Lev Tankelevitch

Senior Researcher

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Payod Panda

Design Engineering Researcher

Viktor Kewenig

Cognitive Science Researcher

Collaborators

Abigail Sellen

VP/Distinguished Scientist

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Siân Lindley

Senior Principal Research Manager

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Jack Williams

Senior Researcher

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Christian Poelitz

Senior Research Engineer

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Jake Hofman

Senior Principal Researcher

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan

Senior Principal Research Manager

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Past Contributors

Xinyue Chen

Past Intern

Emily Doherty

Past Intern

Ian Drosos

Past Resident

Gonzalo Ramos

Past Researcher

Ava Scott

Past Intern

Rishi Vanukuru

Past Intern

Tools for Thought

Publications

Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools

TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought

Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI: A Synthesis of the CHI 2025 Tools for Thought Workshop

Designing Interfaces that Support Temporal Work Across Meetings with Generative AI

Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks

What Does Success Look Like? Catalyzing Meeting Intentionality with AI-Assisted Prospective Reflection

AI, Help Me Think—but for Myself: Assisting People in Complex Decision-Making by Providing Different Kinds of Cognitive Support

Are We On Track? AI-Assisted Active and Passive Goal Reflection During Meetings

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers

Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI

YES AND: A Generative AI Multi-Agent Framework for Enhancing Diversity of Thought in Individual Ideation for Problem-Solving Through Confidence-Based Agent Turn-Taking

The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education

The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025

Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024

AI Should Challenge, Not Obey

Improving Steering and Verification in AI-Assisted Data Analysis with Interactive Task Decomposition

Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction

Predictability of identifier naming with Copilot: A case study for mixed-initiative programming tools

Commentary: Productivity implications for generative AI role-based prompts as a networked hermeneutic

The CoExplorer Technology Probe: A Generative AI-Powered Adaptive Interface to Support Intentionality in Planning and Running Video Meetings

Evolving Roles and Workflows of Creative Practitioners in the Age of Generative AI

“It’s like a rubber duck that talks back”: Understanding Generative AI-Assisted Data Analysis Workflows through a Participatory Prompting Study

CoExplorer: Generative AI Powered 2D and 3D Adaptive Interfaces to Support Intentionality in Video Meetings

Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves

Mental Models of Meeting Goals: Supporting Intentionality in Meeting Technologies

The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI

Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and mitigating productivity loss in human-AI interactions

Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023

ColDeco: An End User Spreadsheet Inspection Tool for AI-Generated Code

Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows

Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots

Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools

TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought

Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI: A Synthesis of the CHI 2025 Tools for Thought Workshop

Designing Interfaces that Support Temporal Work Across Meetings with Generative AI

Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks

What Does Success Look Like? Catalyzing Meeting Intentionality with AI-Assisted Prospective Reflection

AI, Help Me Think—but for Myself: Assisting People in Complex Decision-Making by Providing Different Kinds of Cognitive Support

Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI

YES AND: A Generative AI Multi-Agent Framework for Enhancing Diversity of Thought in Individual Ideation for Problem-Solving Through Confidence-Based Agent Turn-Taking

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers

Are We On Track? AI-Assisted Active and Passive Goal Reflection During Meetings

The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education

The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025

Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024

Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and Mitigating Productivity Loss in Human-AI Interaction

Predictability of identifier naming with Copilot: A case study for mixed-initiative programming tools

Improving Steering and Verification in AI-Assisted Data Analysis with Interactive Task Decomposition

AI Should Challenge, Not Obey

Commentary: Productivity implications for generative AI role-based prompts as a networked hermeneutic

The CoExplorer Technology Probe: A Generative AI-Powered Adaptive Interface to Support Intentionality in Planning and Running Video Meetings

Evolving Roles and Workflows of Creative Practitioners in the Age of Generative AI

“It’s like a rubber duck that talks back”: Understanding Generative AI-Assisted Data Analysis Workflows through a Participatory Prompting Study

Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves

CoExplorer: Generative AI Powered 2D and 3D Adaptive Interfaces to Support Intentionality in Video Meetings

The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI

Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and mitigating productivity loss in human-AI interactions

Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023

ColDeco: An End User Spreadsheet Inspection Tool for AI-Generated Code

Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows

Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots

TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought

Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI

AI Should Challenge, Not Obey

Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves

Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows

Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools

TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought

Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI: A Synthesis of the CHI 2025 Tools for Thought Workshop

Designing Interfaces that Support Temporal Work Across Meetings with Generative AI

Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks

What Does Success Look Like? Catalyzing Meeting Intentionality with AI-Assisted Prospective Reflection

AI, Help Me Think—but for Myself: Assisting People in Complex Decision-Making by Providing Different Kinds of Cognitive Support

Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI

YES AND: A Generative AI Multi-Agent Framework for Enhancing Diversity of Thought in Individual Ideation for Problem-Solving Through Confidence-Based Agent Turn-Taking

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers

Are We On Track? AI-Assisted Active and Passive Goal Reflection During Meetings

The New Calculator? Practices, Norms, and Implications of Generative AI in Higher Education