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Choice Over Control: How Users Write with Large Language Models using Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Prompting

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Dang, Hai, Goller, Sven, Lehmann, Florian, Buschek, Daniel·2023·Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Abstract

We propose a conceptual perspective on prompts for Large Language Models (LLMs) that distinguishes between (1) diegetic prompts (part of the narrative, e.g. “Once upon a time, I saw a fox...”), and (2) non-diegetic prompts (external, e.g. “Write about the adventures of the fox.”). With this lens, we study how 129 crowd workers on Prolific write short texts with different user interfaces (1 vs 3 suggestions, with/out non-diegetic prompts; implemented with GPT-3): When the interface offered multiple suggestions and provided an option for non-diegetic prompting, participants preferred choosing from multiple suggestions over controlling them via non-diegetic prompts. When participants provided non-diegetic prompts it was to ask for inspiration, topics or facts. Single suggestions in particular were guided both with diegetic and non-diegetic information. This work informs human-AI interaction with generative models by revealing that (1) writing non-diegetic prompts requires effort, (2) people combine diegetic and non-diegetic prompting, and (3) they use their draft (i.e. diegetic information) and suggestion timing to strategically guide LLMs.

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  • Findingown data

    An LMM fitted on task completion time for the suggestion UIs did not reveal significant effects.

    “an LMM fitted on this data for the suggestion UIs did not reveal significant effects (Table 1, row 2).”
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  • Findingown data

    The grand mean acceptance rate across UIs was 0.64 (SD 0.29).

    “The grand mean acceptance rate was 0.64 (SD 0.29).”
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    Showing one suggestion instead of three significantly decreased the chance of acceptance.

    “showing one suggestion (instead of three) significantly decreased the chance of acceptance”
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  • Findingnone given

    Allowing users to provide non-diegetic prompts reduces the acceptance-rate gap between single and multiple suggestions by increasing acceptance for the single-suggestion UI.

    “yet allowing them to provide non-diegetic prompts reduces the gap in acceptance rates by boosting it for the UI with single suggestions.”
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    Writing with three suggestions took significantly longer than writing without suggestions.

    “Here we found that writing with three suggestions took significantly longer than without suggestions.”
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    Findingown data

    Participants followed the task description of writing for five minutes, and writing with the suggestion UIs took slightly longer.

    “Participants followed the task description of writing for five minutes, and writing with the suggestion UIs took slightly longer.”
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    Findingown data

    Single suggestions are requested less often after transition words than multiple suggestions.

    “and less frequently at transition words”
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    The grand mean number of words per text was 134 (SD 54).

    “The grand mean number of words per text was 134 words (SD 54).”
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    Findingnone given

    Non-diegetic prompts increase the effort required to learn how to formulate them and to switch between diegetic and non-diegetic writing.

    “Non-diegetic prompts increase effort, for learning how to formulate them and switching between diegetic and non-diegetic writing.”
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    Findingnone given

    Single suggestions are requested later in sentences than multiple suggestions.

    “single suggestions are triggered later in sentences”
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    Single suggestions are requested less often at the start of sentences than multiple suggestions.

    “and to start sentences”
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    Findingown data

    Texts are significantly shorter when writing with single suggestions or with a UI allowing for instructions.

    “texts are significantly shorter when writing with single suggestions or with a UI allowing for instructions.”
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    Findingown data

    Suggestions received favourable ratings by the majority and had almost no perceived grammatical or factual errors.

    “Descriptively, suggestions received favourable ratings by the majority and had almost no perceived grammatical or factual errors.”
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    Findingown data

    Submitted texts contained 87,640 words in total, including text from accepted suggestions.

    “In total, submitted texts contained 87,640 words, including text from accepted suggestions.”
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    Findingown data

    Among the texts that did not align with selected topics, 13 out of 23 were written for the 'shapeshifter' category.

    “Of these, the majority (13 out of 23) were written for the category of”
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    Findingown data

    The main reasons for using instructions were getting more suitable suggestions (coded 12 times), inspiration for words (coded 29 times), and delegating tasks such as coming up with places, names, or synonyms (coded 5 times).

    “inspiration for words (coded 29 times)”
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    Findingown data

    Other instruction cases included multiple words used to describe something.

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    Findingown data

    Nine participants explicitly reflected on distraction.

    “Nine participants explicitly reflected on distraction.”
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    Findingown data

    In the study, showing one suggestion instead of three decreased the chance of suggestion acceptance, and this decrease was larger without instructions than with instructions.

    “Showing one suggestion (instead of three) decreases chance of acceptance; more so without instructions than with them.”
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      “Suggestion acceptance 𝑠 1 (𝛽=-1.26,SE=0.11,CI 95% =[-1.48,-1.03], p<.0001) Number * Instruction (𝛽=0.72,SE=0.17,CI 95% =[0.39, 1.05], p<.0001)”
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      “Instructions increased acceptance rates for single suggestions -although these still did not reach the rate for multiple suggestions (Section 7.1).”
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    Findingown data

    Participants sent 397 instructions to the system in total, with an average of 3.08 instructions per person (SD 3.40).

    “In total, participants used the non-diegetic prompting option to send 397 instructions to the system, with an average of 3.08 instructions per person (SD: 3.40).”
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    Findingown data

    The most common instruction style was single keywords or comma-separated lists of keywords, with 171 usages.

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    Findingreasoning

    Single suggestions were requested less frequently to start a new sentence and to continue after a transition word.

    “Moreover, single suggestions were requested less frequently to start a new sentece and to continue after a transition word.”
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    Findingown data

    Participants mentioned inspiration (coded 39 times), overcoming writer's block (coded 3 times), and finishing sentences (coded 7 times) as reasons for using suggestions.

    “Participants commented on why and how to use suggestions, mentioning inspiration (coded 39 times), overcoming writer's block (coded 3 times), or finishing sentences (coded 7 times)”
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    Findingown data

    Coming up with instructions can disrupt the writing flow (coded 3 times) and thus reduce efficiency or not be worth the effort.

    “It was also reported that coming up with instructions can disrupt the writing flow (coded 3 times) and thus reduces efficiency, or is not worth the effort.”
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    Findingown data

    Users asked the AI for an opinion or advice, or to look up information.

    “people asked the AI for an opinon or advice, or to lookup information.”
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    Findingown data

    Fourteen participants reflected on benefits for both multiple and single suggestions.

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    Findingown data

    Approximately 3.5% of all texts (23 out of 645) did not align with the selected topics.

    “Approximately 3.5% of all texts (23 out of 645) did not align with the selected topics.”
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    Findingnone given

    Suggestions were at times repetitive, such as similar items within one list, or repeated the instruction text.

    “Sometimes, suggestions were repetive (e.g.similar ones in one list) or repeated the instruction text (which seems unhelpful).”
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    Findingown data

    Eleven participants commented on control and influencing suggestions.

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    Findingown data

    On average, participants entered an instruction text in 0.19 of suggestion requests (SD 0.17) for tasks that offered instructions, meaning about every fifth request used instructions.

    “On average, participants had a ratio of 0.19 (SD: 0.17) of entering an instruction text when requesting suggestions, for those tasks that offered to do so.”
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    Findingown data

    Eighteen participants explicitly commented on suggestion quality: eight were negative, nine felt suggestions were hit or miss, and two left positive comments.

    “Eighteen participants explicitly commented on suggestion quality: Eight were negative”
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    Findingown data

    Many participants struggled with writing non-diegetic prompts and recognized that they did so in self-reflection.

    “Many participants struggled with this and recognised that they did so in self-reflection (Section 8.2, 8.3, 8.4).”
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    Findingown data

    The comments indicate two fundamental views on the role of the AI: some expected the system to serve efficiency, while others saw it as serving inspiration.

    “The comments indicate two fundamental views on the role of the AI: Some expected the system to serve efficiency.”
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    Findingown data

    The main reasons for preferring multiple suggestions were higher chances of finding fitting suggestions (coded 36 times) and more inspiration (coded 8 times).

    “Main reasons were higher chances of finding fitting suggestions (coded 36 times) and more inspiration (coded 8 times).”
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    Findingcitation

    The mean number of spelling and grammar mistakes per word was 0.0025, comparable to values reported in previous research.

    “The mean number of spelling and grammar mistakes per word was 0.0025, which is comparable to values reported in previous research [26].”
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    Findingown data

    Some people saw the system as serving input efficiency (a transcriber), while others saw it as providing inspiration (a proposer).

    “Some people clearly saw the system as something that serves input efficiency (i.e.transcriber), whereas others saw it as providing inspiration (i.e.proposer).”
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    Findingown data

    The mean instruction length was 14.20 characters (SD 9.01) and 2.52 words (SD 1.74).

    “The mean instruction length was 14.20 characters (SD: 9.01) and 2.52 words (SD: 1.74).”
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    Findingown data

    The non-diegetic prompts collected in the study show that users experimented with different styles.

    “More positively, the non-diegetic prompts collected in our study show how users experimented with different styles.”
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    Findingown data

    An imperative instruction style occurred 59 times.

    “We also found an imperative style with 59 occurrences”
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    Participants formulated a question in 12 instruction cases.

    “In 12 cases, participants formulated a question”
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    Findingown data

    Participants who preferred single suggestions found them more intuitive (coded 7 times), faster to work with (coded 3 times), or less distracting (coded 3 times).

    “Those preferring single suggestions found them more intuitive (coded 7 times), faster to work with (coded 3 times) or less distracting (coded 3 times)”
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    Findingown data

    The study also yielded rich qualitative feedback.

    “Nevertheless, we received rich qualitative feedback as well (Section 8).”
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    Findingown data

    Offering users the option to write instructions raises the acceptance rate of suggestions for single suggestions, but not above that of multiple suggestions.

    “Giving users the option to write instructions (i.e.non-diegetic prompts) increases the acceptance rate of suggestions for single suggestions, but not beyond that of multiple suggestions (top left).”
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    Findingown data

    People mix diegetic and non-diegetic prompting, since single suggestions gained from both.

    “Second, people combine diegetic and non-diegetic prompting, as single suggestions benefitted from both.”
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    Findingown data

    Texts were somewhat shorter when written with single suggestions or with a UI that allowed instructions.

    “Texts are slightly shorter when writing with single suggestions or with a UI allowing for instructions...”
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      “Writing time did not vary much and texts were slightly shorter with single suggestions and instructions (top center/right).”
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    Premisecitation

    Longer phrase suggestions are perceived more as new ideas for writing.

    “while longer phrase suggestions [6,26,37] are perceived more as new ideas for writing [1].”
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    Premisecitation

    Suggestions can be triggered automatically after short inactivity, gated by a utility function, or explicitly requested with a hotkey.

    “Related work showed suggestions automatically after short inactivity [4,6] or gated by a utility function [24].Alternatively, recent work has also explored designs in which users explicitly request suggestions with a hotkey [7,17,26,41,48].”
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    Study design and conductown data

    The analysis of open comments used a multi-step coding process with independent coding by two researchers and consensus resolution.

    “We analysed the open comments from the final questionnaire in an approach adopting coding steps from Grounded Theory [10,29], in order to identify and report on the emerging aspects: First, two researchers inductively proposed codes for the data of 20 people.They then compared and clustered these codes to develop a common codebook.Then, they coded the first 20 plus 32 more participants and checked”
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    Providing a few examples of inputs and outputs in a text prompt can help a model perform a task.

    “Providing a few examples of inputs and outputs in such a text prompt can help the model solve a task [5,50].”
    • Also stated in: § 2.1 Prompting in Large Language Models · plain
      “Zhao et al. [50] show that providing a few examples of inputs and outputs can help to steer the model.”
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    Single text suggestions can be shown inline, while multiple suggestions are shown as popup lists of about three to six entries.

    “Single text suggestions can be shown inline [4,8,17,48], whereas multiple suggestions are shown as popup lists of about three to six entries [6,26].”
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    Optimized prompts from prompt engineering are usually not meant for human consumption but are designed for LLMs to perform tasks effectively.

    “However, optimized prompts constructed in the process of prompt engineering are usually not meant to be consumed by humans; rather, they are designed for LLMs to most effectively perform a task [28].”
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    Premisereasoning

    From an HCI perspective, distinguishing diegetic from non-diegetic prompts helps identify patterns in how users perceive and interact with LLMs while writing.

    “However, from an HCI perspective, this distinction allows us to identify patterns in the perception and interaction of users writing with LLMs.”
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    Study design and conductnone given

    Three researchers independently reviewed the stories and commented on their connection to the prompts, and one researcher reviewed all comments for consistency.

    “To evaluate the degree to which participants engaged with the selected writing prompts during the user study (cf.Section 6), three researchers independently reviewed the stories and provided comments on their connection to the prompts.Finally, one researcher reviewed all comments to ensure consistency.”
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    Study design and conductown data

    The statistical models account for participants' individual differences and the type of chosen topics via random intercepts.

    “The models account for participants' individual differences, as well as for the type of their chosen topics (creative story writing, argumentative writing), via random intercepts.”
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    Premisecitation

    Deep learning-based LLMs can solve several natural language processing tasks without task-specific training by using text prompts written in natural language.

    “One primary advantage of Deep Learningbased LLMs is that they can solve several natural language processing tasks without being specifically trained on those.This can be done via text prompts written in natural language [5].”
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    Technically, diegetic and non-diegetic prompts may be equivalent for an LLM because both are received as text input strings.

    “Technically, there may not be a difference between diegetic and non-diegetic prompts for the LLM -both types are received by the model as text input strings.”
    • Also stated in: § 2.3 Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Prompting in Existing Writing Interfaces · hedged
      “From a technical perspective, for recent systems that use LLMs to generate text suggestions, there might be no difference between the user's text draft (i.e.diegetic text) and other text inputs to the language model”
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    Study design and conductnone given

    The order of the five UI variants was fully counterbalanced.

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    Optimizing prompts is not trivial and requires extensive experience.

    “However, optimizing prompts is not trivial and requires extensive experience [28].”
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    Interpretationnone given

    Despite potential misunderstanding of the 'shapeshifter' category, the majority of participants demonstrated attentiveness to the task and provided thoughtful reflections on the topic.

    “Despite this potential misunderstanding, the majority of participants demonstrated attentiveness to the task and provided thoughtful reflections on the topic.”
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    Interpretationcitation

    Diegetic prompts do not require such shifts, although they still require engagement with displayed suggestions.

    “In contrast, diegetic prompts do not require such shifts, although they still require engagement with displayed suggestions [4,6].”
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    Study design and conductreasoning

    Changes to the model over time are outside the authors' control, which restricts exact replication of studies of this kind.

    “Potential changes to the model over time are beyond our control.This limits exact replicability for studies like this.”
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    Interpretationown data

    Instructions were situationally useful: participants commented on their benefits, used them in every fifth suggestion request, and experimented with different styles.

    “At the same time, instructions were indeed (situationally) useful: Participants commented on their benefits (Section 8.2), used them in every fifth suggestion request, and experimented with different styles (Section 7.6).”
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    A comparable pop-up is used in recent related work, though for suggestions in the middle of sentences rather than for instructions.

    “A similar pop-up is used in recent related work (not for instructions but for suggestions in the middle of sentences; cf.[4]).”
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    Interpretationown data

    Multiple suggestions and instructions were mentioned as contributing to feeling in control, matching the Likert results on control and influence.

    “Overall, multiple suggestions and instructions were mentioned here as contributing to feeling in control, matching the Likert results on control and influence (𝑄 9 and 𝑄 10 in Figure 3).”
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    Interpretationnone given

    There is a trend toward limited direct access to state-of-the-art LLMs for parts of the academic community.

    “We see a trend of limited direct access to state-of-the-art LLMs for parts of the academic community, which is not easy to resolve.”
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    Recent text-to-image models let users produce images from text descriptions.

    “Recent text to image models allow users to generate images from text descriptions [30,32,36].”
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    Chung et al. proposed a story ideation tool that guides an LLM through visual sketching.

    “Chung et al. [9] proposed a new story ideation tool that uses visual sketching to guide a LLM.”
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    The amount of time participants spent writing in this study is comparable to that of related work.

    “This is comparable to related work (e.g.11 min [26], 4 min [6], 10-12 min [48]).”
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    Study design and conductreasoning

    Apart from the pre-study, the authors could not watch participants directly or ask them questions at interesting points in the interaction.

    “However, we could not observe people directly or ask questions at interesting moments in the interaction, except for in our pre-study, which we used to refine our design.”
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    Premisecitation

    Recent studies, including this one, have used writing tasks drawn from writer communities and custom tasks.

    “Pragmatically, writing tasks from writer communities and custom tasks have been used in recent studies (e.g.[6,26,41,48]), including ours.”
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    Study design and conductnone given

    The authors had no direct access to the model and do not claim to have found the best settings for their use of it.

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    Interpretationcitation

    In Chung et al.'s tool the sketch becomes a text prompt, so the interaction is non-diegetic.

    “Here the sketch is translated to a text prompt.This interaction is nondiegetic.”
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    Study design and conductreasoning

    The instruction styles may be biased by the examples that were provided to participants.

    “It is possible that the instruction styles (Section 7.6) are biased by the provided examples (Figure 8 in Appendix A).”
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    Interpretationown data

    Potential influences of the study setup do not necessarily work against instructions, or are less dominant than the effects of the UI design.

    “This suggests that potential influences of the study setup do not necessarily work against instructions, or are less dominant than the effects of the UI design (e.g.sidebar vs integration at text cursor).”
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    Interpretationnone given

    None of the instruction styles go beyond what would also be a meaningful comment to a human co-author.

    “At the moment, none of these styles go beyond what would also be a meaningful comment to a human co-author.”
    Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim
  • May combine two claims.

    Interpretationown data

    The control offered by instructions was useful to guide single suggestions but was not better than having a choice of three suggestions to begin with.

    “This indicates that the control offered by instructions was useful to guide single suggestions but not better than having a choice of three suggestions to begin with.”
    Quote in the paperSubstantial claim
  • Probably not a substantial claim: may not pass S3 (load-bearing).

    Interpretationreasoning

    Because the abstract shape is usually not part of the outcome, this interaction is treated as non-diegetic.

    “Since the abstract shape is usually not part of the outcome we consider this interaction non-diegetic.”
    Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim
  • Probably not a substantial claim: may not pass S3 (load-bearing).

    Premisecitation

    The image model converts the drawn shapes into a high-fidelity rendering.

    “The image model then translates these shapes into a high-fidelity rendering.”
    Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim0 of 1 sources checked
    • cites [3] source

      Not checked in the free run.

  • Probably not a substantial claim: may not pass S3 (load-bearing).

    Premisecitation

    Bau et al. give an example of guiding image models by painting shapes, such as a triangle standing for a mountain.

    “Bau et al. [3] show an example of”
    Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim0 of 1 sources checked
    • cites [3] source

      Not checked in the free run.

  • Probably not a substantial claim: may not pass S2 (checkable), S4 (based).

    Interpretationnone given

    No model, however good, can remove the cognitive and interaction costs of switching between diegetic and non-diegetic writing.

    “even the best model cannot eliminate cognitive costs and interaction costs of switching between diegetic and non-diegetic writing.”
    Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim
  • Classified as probably not a substantial claim.

    Interpretationnone given

    Distinguishing the diegetic and non-diegetic perspectives lets researchers examine users' intentions and behavior when they interact with or design generative AI systems.

    “Differentiating these two perspectives therefore allows researchers to analyse users' intention and behavior when interacting or designing systems with generative AI.”
    Quote in the paperSubstantial claim
  • Probably not a substantial claim: may not pass S3 (load-bearing), S4 (based).

    Premisenone given

    Prior systems in related work concentrated on non-diegetic prompts.

    “While related work has presented systems that focused on non-diegetic prompts”
    Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim
  • Probably not a substantial claim: may not pass S3 (load-bearing).

    Interpretationreasoning

    Text-to-image prompts are non-diegetic because they are not part of the resulting visuals.

    “These are non-diegetic prompts, because they are not part of the visuals.”
    Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim
  • Probably not a substantial claim: may not pass S3 (load-bearing).

    Premisecitation

    Ha and Eck let users begin painting part of an image, providing diegetic information, and have the system continue or complete the painting.

    “Ha and Eck [19] enable users to start painting a part of an image (i.e.providing diegetic information) and let the system continue or finish the painting.”
    Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim0 of 1 sources checked
    • cites [19] source

      Not checked in the free run.

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  • The paper relies on this without support.

    The 129 Prolific crowd workers are representative of the broader population of users who write with LLMs.

    “We conducted a remote study with 129 crowd workers on Prolific, each writing five stories.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Suggestion acceptance rate is a valid indicator of users' preference for a suggestion UI.

    “This is evident from highest acceptance rates with the multiple suggestions UI (Section 7.1)”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    The Likert questions validly measure the constructs they are intended to measure, such as control, distraction, and problems with instructions.

    “matching the Likert results on control and influence (𝑄 9 and 𝑄 10 in Figure 3)”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    The qualitative coding categories and counts are reliable and meaningful.

    “coded 36 times”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    The writing tasks used in the study are representative of short creative and argumentative writing tasks in general.

    “Participants overall preferred choosing from multiple text suggestions presented to them, over actively writing instructions, in short creative and argumentative writing tasks.”
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Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • End-user studies suggest that prompting is challenging, with non-expert users making various errors and adopting ineffective strategies-a reflection of the demand on users' metacognitive monitoring and control.

    “End-user studies suggest that prompting is challenging, with nonexpert users making various errors and adopting ineffective strategies-a reflection of the demand on users' metacognitive monitoring and control [33,41,43,85,103,174,205].”

    From The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI (2024) · cites this paper as [41]

    Section 8.4 (page unavailable) reports that participants struggled to formulate instructions, and Section 8.3 describes one participant who had little success with instructions and changed approach. These passages support prompting being challenging for some non-expert users, but they do not document various user errors or establish ineffective strategies as a general finding. The paper also does not characterize these difficulties as demands on metacognitive monitoring and control. (LLM, conf=0.84)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
  • A more comprehensive understanding of views surrounding authenticity in human-AI co-creation remains elusive.

    “Recent work on AI use for writing has begun to explore relevant constructs, such as ownership, authorship, and agency [11,13,39,49], but a more comprehensive understanding of views surrounding authenticity in human-AI co-creation remains elusive.”
  • Diegetic prompting is easier but affords less control than non-diegetic prompting, with preferences differing across users.

    “For example, whereas diegetic prompting is easier, it affords less control than the alternative, with preferences differing across users [41].”

    From The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI (2024) · cites this paper as [41]

  • Dang et al. found that users preferred choosing from multiple suggestions and using content from the draft to guide LLM usage rather than writing external prompts which require more effort.

    “Dang et al. [16] found that users preferred choosing from multiple suggestions and using content from the draft to guide LLM usage rather than writing external prompts which require more effort.”
  • Recent HCI studies on LLM-based tool design have mainly focused on prompt engineering and exploring the generative capabilities of LLMs.

    “Recent HCI studies on LLM-based tool design have mainly focused on prompt engineering [6,16,46,55,94,98] and exploring the generative capabilities of LLMs [50,58,63,67,97].”

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

  • Suggestion-quality categories total more than the stated participants

    Minor

    The reported counts of negative, mixed, and positive assessments add to 19, although the paper says 18 participants commented on suggestion quality. The text does not say that any participant was counted in more than one category.

    Reported 18 · recomputed 19

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Cites

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Research works printed but not linked: 3

  1. Steven Goodman, Erin Buehler, Patrick Clary, Andy Coenen, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Tiffanie Horne, Michal Lahav, Bob MacDonald, Rain Breaw Michaels, Ajit Narayanan, Mahima Pushkarna, Joel Christopher Riley, Alex Santana, Lei Shi, Rachel Sweeney, Phil Weaver, Ann Yuan, and Meredith Ringel Morris. 2022. LaMPost: Evaluation of an AI-assisted Writing Email Editor Prototype for Adults with Dyslexia. https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02308 · arXiv
  2. Herbert Alexander Simon. 1996. The sciences of the artificial(3. ed. ed.). MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
  3. 10.18653/v1 · DOI

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Authors
Dang, H., Goller, S., Lehmann, F., & Buschek, D.
Affiliations
University of Bayreuth (DE)
Venue
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2023-04-19
Pages
1-17
OpenAlex
W4323570570
Cited by
83
References
48
Citations by year
2026: 21 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 3
FWCI
14.69
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech and dialogue systems
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
Keywords
large language models, prompting, user interface design, human-AI interaction, generative AI, text generation, user choice, user control, GPT-3, crowd workers

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