Valerie Chen

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Developer Interaction Patterns with Proactive AI: A Five-Day Field Study

Current in-IDE AI coding tools typically rely on time-consuming manual prompting and context management, whereas proactive alternatives that anticipate developer needs without explicit invocation remain underexplored. Understanding when humans are receptive to such proactive AI assistance during their daily work remai…

CHI '261st AuthorHuman-LLM Collaboration +2

Code with Me or for Me? How Increasing AI Automation Transforms Developer Workflows

Developers now have access to a growing array of increasingly autonomous AI tools for software development. While many studies examine copilots that provide chat assistance or code completions, evaluations of coding agents—which can automatically write files and run code—still rely on static benchmarks. We present the…

CHI '251st AuthorHuman-LLM Collaboration +1

Need Help? Designing Proactive AI Assistants for Programming

While current chat-based AI assistants primarily operate reactively, responding only when prompted by users, there is significant potential for these systems to proactively assist in tasks without explicit invocation, enabling a mixed-initiative interaction. This work explores the design and implementation of proactiv…

CSCW '231st AuthorXAI 2

Understanding the Role of Human Intuition on Reliance in Human-AI Decision-Making with Explanations

AI explanations are often mentioned as a way to improve human-AI decision-making, but empirical studies have not found consistent evidence of explanations' effectiveness and, on the contrary, suggest that they can increase overreliance when the AI system is wrong. While many factors may affect reliance on AI support,…

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