“What it wants me to say”: Bridging the abstraction gap between end-user programmers and code-generating large language models

MX Liu, A Sarkar, C Negreanu, B Zorn… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Code-generating large language models map natural language to code. However, only a
small portion of the infinite space of naturalistic utterances is effective at guiding code …

How do data science workers collaborate? roles, workflows, and tools

AX Zhang, M Muller, D Wang - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Today, the prominence of data science within organizations has given rise to teams of data
science workers collaborating on extracting insights from data, as opposed to individual data …

Selenite: Scaffolding Online Sensemaking with Comprehensive Overviews Elicited from Large Language Models

MX Liu, T Wu, T Chen, FM Li, A Kittur… - Proceedings of the 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Sensemaking in unfamiliar domains can be challenging, demanding considerable user
effort to compare different options with respect to various criteria. Prior research and our …

Beyond chatbots: Explorellm for structured thoughts and personalized model responses

X Ma, S Mishra, A Liu, SY Su, J Chen… - Extended Abstracts of …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Large language model (LLM) powered chatbots are primarily text-based today, and impose
a large interactional cognitive load, especially for exploratory or sensemaking tasks such as …

A survey of tool support for working with design decisions in code

S Mehrpour, TD Latoza - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Whenever developers choose among alternative technical approaches, they make a design
decision. Collectively, design decisions shape how software implements its requirements …

Multi-modal repairs of conversational breakdowns in task-oriented dialogs

TJJ Li, J Chen, H **a, TM Mitchell… - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
A major problem in task-oriented conversational agents is the lack of support for the repair of
conversational breakdowns. Prior studies have shown that current repair strategies for these …

Passages: Interacting with text across documents

HL Han, J Yu, R Bournet, A Ciorascu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
A key aspect of knowledge work is the analysis and manipulation of sets of related
documents. We conducted interviews with 12 patent examiners and 12 scientists and found …

Fuse: In-situ sensemaking support in the browser

A Kuznetsov, JC Chang, N Hahn… - Proceedings of the 35th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
People spend a significant amount of time trying to make sense of the internet, collecting
content from a variety of sources and organizing it to make decisions and achieve their …

Crystalline: Lowering the cost for developers to collect and organize information for decision making

MX Liu, A Kittur, BA Myers - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Developers perform online sensemaking on a daily basis, such as researching and
choosing libraries and APIs. Prior research has introduced tools that help developers …

An exploration of captioning practices and challenges of individual content creators on YouTube for people with hearing impairments

FM Li, C Lu, Z Lu, P Carrington, KN Truong - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) audiences have long complained about caption qualities
for many online videos created by individual content creators on video-sharing platforms …