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Enhancing Peer Review with AI-Powered Suggestion Generation Assistance: Investigating the Design Dynamics

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Neshaei, Seyed Parsa, Rietsche, Roman, Su, Xiaotian, Wambsganss, Thiemo·2024·Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

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While writing peer reviews resembles an important task in science, education, and large organizations, providing fruitful suggestions to peers is not a straightforward task, as different user interaction designs of text suggestion interfaces can have diverse effects on user behaviors when writing the review text. Generative language models might be able to support humans in formulating reviews with textual suggestions. Previous systems use two designs for providing text suggestions, but do not empirically evaluate them: inline and list of suggestions. To investigate the effects of embedding NLP text generation models in the two designs, we collected user requirements to implement Hamta as an example of assistants providing reviewers with text suggestions. Our experiment on comparing the two designs on 31 participants indicates that people using the inline interface provided longer reviews on average, while participants using the list of suggestions experienced more ease of use in using our tool. The results shed light on important design findings for embedding text generation models in user-centered assistants.

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Neshaei, S. P., Rietsche, R., Su, X., & Wambsganss, T.
Affiliations
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
  • Bern University of Applied Sciences (CH)
Venue
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
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ACM
Published
2024-03-18
Pages
88-102
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W4393970617
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2026: 1 · 2025: 8
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2.90
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en
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  • ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) (publishedVersion)
  • ARBOR - Bern University of Applied Sciences Repository (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Recommender Systems and Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
Keywords
peer review, generative language models, AI-assisted writing, user-centered design, ease of use, review length, user requirements

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