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Main Authors: Ragavan, Sruti Srinivasa, Alipour, Mohammad Amin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04452
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author Ragavan, Sruti Srinivasa
Alipour, Mohammad Amin
author_facet Ragavan, Sruti Srinivasa
Alipour, Mohammad Amin
contents Information Foraging Theory's (IFT) framing of human information seeking choices as decision-theoretic cost-value judgments has successfully explained how people seek information among linked patches of information (e.g., linked webpages). However, the theory has to be adopted and validated in non-patchy LLM-based chatbot environments, before its postulates can be reliably applied to the design of such chat-based information seeking environments. This paper is a thought experiment that applies the IFT cost-value proposition to LLM-based chatbots and presents a set of preliminary hypotheses to guide future theory-building efforts for how people seek information in such environments.
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spellingShingle Revisiting Human Information Foraging: Adaptations for LLM-based Chatbots
Ragavan, Sruti Srinivasa
Alipour, Mohammad Amin
Human-Computer Interaction
Information Foraging Theory's (IFT) framing of human information seeking choices as decision-theoretic cost-value judgments has successfully explained how people seek information among linked patches of information (e.g., linked webpages). However, the theory has to be adopted and validated in non-patchy LLM-based chatbot environments, before its postulates can be reliably applied to the design of such chat-based information seeking environments. This paper is a thought experiment that applies the IFT cost-value proposition to LLM-based chatbots and presents a set of preliminary hypotheses to guide future theory-building efforts for how people seek information in such environments.
title Revisiting Human Information Foraging: Adaptations for LLM-based Chatbots
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04452