Tal August

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From Crafting Text to Crafting Thought: Grounding AI Writing Support to Writing Center Pedagogy

As AI writing tools evolve from fixing surface errors to creating language with writers, new capabilities raise concerns about negative impacts on student writers, such as replacing their voices and undermining critical thinking skills. To address these challenges, we look at a parallel transition in university writin…

CHI '264th AuthorBest PaperHuman-LLM Collaboration +2

Cocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI Agents

As AI agents take on increasingly long-running tasks involving sophisticated planning and execution, there is a corresponding need for novel interaction designs that enable deeper human-agent collaboration. However, most prior works leverage human interaction to fix "autonomous" workflows that have yet to become fully…

CHI '26CorrespondingHonorable MentionExplainable AI (XAI) +3

Designing Beyond Language: Sociotechnical Barriers in AI Health Technologies for Limited English Proficiency

Limited English proficiency (LEP) patients in the U.S. face systemic barriers to healthcare beyond language and interpreter access, encompassing procedural and institutional constraints. AI advances may support communication and care through on-demand translation and visit preparation, but also risk exacerbating exist…

CHI '26CorrespondingParticipatory Design +2

Living Contracts: Beyond Document-Centric Interaction with Legal Agreements

User interaction with legal contracts has been limited to document reading, which is often complicated by complex, ambiguous legal language. We explore possible futures where contract interfaces go beyond single document interfaces to (1) educate users with legal rights not stated in the contract, (2) transform legal…

CHI '265th+ AuthorHonorable MentionHuman-LLM Collaboration +3

Perspectra: Choosing Your Experts Enhances Critical Thinking in Multi-Agent Research Ideation

Recent advances in multi-agent systems (MAS) enable tools for information search and ideation by assigning personas to agents. However, how users can effectively control, steer, and critically evaluate collaboration among multiple domain-expert agents remains underexplored. We present Perspectra, an interactive MAS th…

CHI '262nd AuthorExplainable AI (XAI) +2

TermSight: Making Service Contracts Approachable

Legal contracts govern much of our society, but their specialized language is difficult for non-experts to read. While AI has enabled simplification of complex language, legal contracts pose unique challenges because of their connection to readers' values, ambiguity, and legally binding nature. Based on a formative st…

UIST '243rd AuthorHuman-LLM Collaboration +1

Qlarify: Recursively Expandable Abstracts for Dynamic Information Retrieval over Scientific Papers

Navigating the vast scientific literature often starts with browsing a paper’s abstract. However, when a reader seeks additional information, not present in the abstract, they face a costly cognitive chasm during their dive into the full text. To bridge this gap, we introduce recursively expandable abstracts, a novel…

CHI '241st AuthorHuman-LLM Collaboration +3

Know Your Audience: The benefits and pitfalls of generating plain language summaries beyond the "general" audience

Language models (LMs) show promise as tools for communicating science to the general public by simplifying and summarizing complex language. Because models can be prompted to generate text for a specific audience (e.g., college-educated adults), LMs might be used to create multiple versions of plain language summaries…

CHI '245th+ AuthorHuman-LLM Collaboration +2

A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants

In our era of rapid technological advancement, the research landscape for writing assistants has become increasingly fragmented across various research communities. We seek to address this challenge by proposing a design space as a structured way to examine and explore the multidimensional space of intelligent and int…

CHI '232nd AuthorPrivacy by Design & User Control +1

How Language Formality in Security and Privacy Interfaces Impacts Intended Compliance

Strong end-user security practices benefit both the user and hosting platform, but it is not well understood how companies communicate with their users to encourage these practices. This paper explores whether web companies and their platforms use different levels of language formality in these communications and test…

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