Replying to formal emails is time-consuming and cognitively demanding, as it requires polite phrasing ensuring an adequate response the sender's demands. Although systems with Large Language Models (LLM) were designed simplify email replying process, users still needed provide detailed prompts obtain expected output. Therefore, we proposed evaluated LLM-powered question-and-answer (QA)-based approach for reply by answering a set of simple short questions generated from incoming email. We...

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely used to support ideation in the writing process. However, whether generating ideas with help of LLMs leads idea fixation or expansion is unclear. This study examines how different timings LLM usage - either at beginning after independent affect people's perceptions and outcomes a task. In controlled experiment 60 participants, we found that using from reduced number original lowered creative self-efficacy self-credit, mediated by changes autonomy...

Trust in agents within Virtual Reality is becoming increasingly important, as they provide advice and influence people's decision-making. However, previous studies show that encountering speech recognition errors can reduce users' trust agents. Such lead users to ignore the agent's make suboptimal decisions. While offer an apology repair trust, its effectiveness often limited because it fails fully original level of trust. Therefore, we examined use social touch, a interaction involving...

Workers tend to make inferences about one another's commitment and dedication work depending on what cues are available them, affecting worker relationships collaboration outcomes. In this work, we investigate how remote affects workers' perceptions of their colleagues with different levels social connectivity, commonly referred as strong ties weak ties. When working remotely, may suffer due the lack in-person interaction. On other hand, also be impacted by losing richer communication cues,...

Video-based learning is widely adopted by online learners, yet, experience and quality may be negatively affected asynchronous remote natures of video-based learning. As note-taking a common practice employed learners known to an effective way trigger active construction processing knowledge, yet as meta-skill, it challenging most learners. In this study, we aim approach the goal providing cognitive social scaffolds structuring their process. We presented evaluated structured systems...

In workplaces, knowledge has the property of being individually kept and collectively shared. It is distributed embedded among members but needs to be transferred pooled through networks for successful collaboration. order understand embody such networks, we employed a mixture field observations, social network analysis, in-depth interviews examine practices transfer in local financial institute (N=32). Results from analyses show that there discrepancy between inbound outbound transfer, also...

As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including generative AI, continue to evolve, concerns have arisen about over-reliance on which may lead human deskilling and diminished cognitive engagement. Over-reliance AI can also users accept information given by without performing critical examinations, causing negative consequences, such as misleading with hallucinated contents. This paper introduces extraheric a human-AI interaction conceptual framework that fosters users' higher-order...

Note-taking activities in physical classrooms are ubiquitous and have been emerging online learning. To investigate how to better support learners take notes while learning with videos, we compared free-form note-taking a prototype system, NoteStruct, which prompts perform series of activities. NoteStruct enables insert annotations on transcripts video lectures then engages reinterpreting synthesizing their after watching video. In study sample Mechanical Turk workers (N=80), took longer...

Second language reading is difficult when people are with limited second proficiency. In this paper, we proposed picture note-taking, displaying semantic-related pictures as notes of keywords in an article to support comprehension. We prototyped online tool called PicRemarkable and evaluated its effects on English Chinese native speakers. Our result showed that participants performed better at the delay comprehension test using note-taking than definitions words support.

TV watching is a common leisure activity, and people often use the opportunity of to socialize with other co-watchers. However, when potential co-watchers like friends or family members are distributed in different locations, social function disrupted. In this paper, we present mobile content sharing system called Co-Viewing Room, which enables users share three types content, including it whole video sharing, clips snapshots during an online chat. We evaluated by comparing influence on...

Image tagging is crucial to the use of digital photos and value-added applications. We present Tag & Link, a interface featured direct annotations collect fine-grained descriptions image content that can be hard obtain otherwise. Link provides set drawing tools, allowing users directly specify regions interest (ROIs), relations between different ROIs on an image. Through crowdsourcing study, we show enhances productivity helps small objects behaviors embedded in images. demonstrate value...

When receiving text messages from unacquainted colleagues in fully remote workplaces, insufficient mutual understanding and limited social cues can lead people to misinterpret the tone of message further influence their impression colleagues. Emojis have been commonly used for supporting expressive communication; however, seldom use emojis before they become acquainted with each other. Hence, we explored how changing facial expressions profile pictures could be an alternative channel...

The Metaverse is poised to be a future platform that redefines what it means communicate, socialize, and interact with each other. Yet, important for us consider avoiding the pitfalls of social media platforms we use today; cyberbullying, lack transparency an overall false mental model society. In this paper, propose Empathic Metaverse, virtual prioritizes emotional sharing assistance. It aims cultivate prosocial behaviour, either egoistically or altruistically, so our society can better...

To accomplish collaborative work, collaborators need to know one another's states of work for coordination. Similarly, in situations knowledge transfer where experts instruct novices by passing implicit and personal experience about the task, challenge lies gap between novices. Both parties gain an awareness each other's state task effective transfer. In this paper, we aim investigate how online is supported a design called transparency shared document workspace, which allows explicitly...

Annotation is a common practice to aid reading. Social annotation may benefit collaborative second language learning in the way that readers share their annotations help each other read articles of non-native language. In laboratory study, we simulated process social and examined how seeing others' affects readers' understanding content as well production editing annotations. The preliminary results showed reading people's can affect article modification especially when disagreed with

The limited nonverbal cues and spatially distributed nature of remote communication make it challenging for unacquainted members to be expressive during social interactions over video conferencing. Though enables seeing others' facial expressions, the visual feedback can instead lead unexpected self-focus, resulting in users missing others engage conversation equally. To support equal participation among counterparts, we propose SealMates, a behavior-driven avatar which infers engagement...

During video conferencing, technical issues such as network impairments can unexpectedly hinder remote collaboration for distributed teams. However, it remains unclear how affect the impression formation process between unacquainted interlocutors in situations like job interviews or kick-off meetings. Having first encounters online without prior in-person interaction has become prevalent nowadays. Therefore, examining impact of on and exploring design solutions to reduce negative is...

Psychotherapy, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), is effective in treating various mental disorders. Technology-facilitated health improves client engagement through methods like digitization or gamification. However, these innovations largely cater to individual therapy, ignoring the potential of group therapy-a treatment for multiple clients concurrently, which enables receive perspectives process and also addresses scarcity healthcare practitioners reduce costs. Notwithstanding...

Online reviews help people make better decisions. Review platforms usually depend on typed input, where leaving a good review requires significant effort because users must carefully organize and articulate their thoughts. This may discourage from comprehensive high-quality reviews, especially when they are the go. To address this challenge, we developed Vocalizer, mobile application that enables to provide through voice with enhancements large language model (LLM). In longitudinal study,...