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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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
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
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
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
CHI 2025 | April 2025
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The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025
Richard Banks, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Leon Reicherts, Pratik Ghosh
December 2024
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
AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
October 2024
CACM Cover Story
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
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
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
Commentary: Productivity implications for generative AI role-based prompts as a networked hermeneutic
Discourse & Communication | August 2024
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
Evolving Roles and Workflows of Creative Practitioners in the Age of Generative AI
Creativity and Cognition | June 2024
“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
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
Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
Mental Models of Meeting Goals: Supporting Intentionality in Meeting Technologies
Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
CHI 2024 | May 2024
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
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
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
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
Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2023) | June 2023
Publications by Research Area
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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
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
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
CHI 2025 | April 2025
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
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
The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025
Richard Banks, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Leon Reicherts, Pratik Ghosh
December 2024
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
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
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
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
AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
October 2024
CACM Cover Story
Commentary: Productivity implications for generative AI role-based prompts as a networked hermeneutic
Discourse & Communication | August 2024
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
Evolving Roles and Workflows of Creative Practitioners in the Age of Generative AI
Creativity and Cognition | June 2024
“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
Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2023) | June 2023
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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
AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
October 2024
CACM Cover Story
Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
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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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
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
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
CHI 2025 | April 2025
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
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
The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025
Richard Banks, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Leon Reicherts, Pratik Ghosh
December 2024
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
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
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
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
AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
October 2024
CACM Cover Story
Commentary: Productivity implications for generative AI role-based prompts as a networked hermeneutic
Discourse & Communication | August 2024
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
Evolving Roles and Workflows of Creative Practitioners in the Age of Generative AI
Creativity and Cognition | June 2024
“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
Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
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
Mental Models of Meeting Goals: Supporting Intentionality in Meeting Technologies
Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
CHI 2024 | May 2024
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
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
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
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
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
Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2023) | June 2023
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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
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
CHI 2025 | April 2025
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
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
The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025
Richard Banks, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Leon Reicherts, Pratik Ghosh
December 2024
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
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
AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
October 2024
CACM Cover Story
Commentary: Productivity implications for generative AI role-based prompts as a networked hermeneutic
Discourse & Communication | August 2024
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
“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
Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
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
Mental Models of Meeting Goals: Supporting Intentionality in Meeting Technologies
Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
CHI 2024 | May 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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Publications by Type
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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
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
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
CHI 2025 | April 2025
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
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
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
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
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
Evolving Roles and Workflows of Creative Practitioners in the Age of Generative AI
Creativity and Cognition | June 2024
“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
Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
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
Mental Models of Meeting Goals: Supporting Intentionality in Meeting Technologies
Ava Elizabeth Scott, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
CHI 2024 | May 2024
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
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
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
Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2023) | June 2023
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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
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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The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025
Richard Banks, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Leon Reicherts, Pratik Ghosh
December 2024
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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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
Commentary: Productivity implications for generative AI role-based prompts as a networked hermeneutic
Discourse & Communication | August 2024
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AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
October 2024
CACM Cover Story
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
Advait Sarkar
Senior Researcher
Britta Burlin
Principal Design Manager
Gonzalo Ramos
Principal Researcher
Ian Drosos
Researcher
Jack Williams
Senior Researcher
Leon Reicherts
Researcher
Lev Tankelevitch
Senior Researcher
Martin Grayson
Principal Research Software Development Engineer
Payod Panda
Design Engineering Researcher
Pratik Ghosh
Senior Research Designer
Richard Banks
Principal Design Manager
Sean Rintel
Senior Principal Research Manager
Sponsors
Siân Lindley
Senior Principal Research Manager
Abigail Sellen
Distinguished Scientist and Lab Director