Yimeng Xie

To Search or To Gen? Design Dimensions Integrating Web Search and Generative AI in Programmers' Information-Seeking Process

Programmers now use both generative AI (GenAI) and traditional web search for information-seeking, yet how these tools are used individually or in combination remains unclear. To answer this, we conducted a multi-phase investigation, including retrospective interviews to identify foraging behaviours and challenges and…