Probing the Future of Meta-Analysis: Eliciting Design Principles via an Agentic Research IDE
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| author | Cheng, Sizhe Liang, Feng Wen, Yuhan Yu, Xipei Wang, Yong |
| author_facet | Cheng, Sizhe Liang, Feng Wen, Yuhan Yu, Xipei Wang, Yong |
| contents | Meta-analyses and systematic reviews demand rigorous abductive reasoning to build, test, and refine hypotheses across vast, heterogeneous literature. While NLP advancements have automated parts of this pipeline, existing tools often detach researchers from the cognitive loop or function merely as retrieval engines, leading to loss of intellectual ownership and frequent context switching. We present Research IDE, a prototype reimagining authoring environments through the "Research as Code" metaphor. Research IDE embeds a multi-agent backend into the writing flow, enabling in-situ verification via "hypothesis breakpoints." A one-week field deployment with 8 domain experts, followed by a reflective workshop, as a Research through Design (RtD) probe, reveals that users strongly preferred this verification workflow, actively leveraged prior knowledge for confirmation, and reported that breakpoints sparked insights. Drawing from participant feedback and suggestions, we derive design implications for future AI-assisted research tools that fully preserve researcher autonomy and intellectual ownership while harnessing computational scale. |
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| spellingShingle | Probing the Future of Meta-Analysis: Eliciting Design Principles via an Agentic Research IDE Cheng, Sizhe Liang, Feng Wen, Yuhan Yu, Xipei Wang, Yong Human-Computer Interaction Meta-analyses and systematic reviews demand rigorous abductive reasoning to build, test, and refine hypotheses across vast, heterogeneous literature. While NLP advancements have automated parts of this pipeline, existing tools often detach researchers from the cognitive loop or function merely as retrieval engines, leading to loss of intellectual ownership and frequent context switching. We present Research IDE, a prototype reimagining authoring environments through the "Research as Code" metaphor. Research IDE embeds a multi-agent backend into the writing flow, enabling in-situ verification via "hypothesis breakpoints." A one-week field deployment with 8 domain experts, followed by a reflective workshop, as a Research through Design (RtD) probe, reveals that users strongly preferred this verification workflow, actively leveraged prior knowledge for confirmation, and reported that breakpoints sparked insights. Drawing from participant feedback and suggestions, we derive design implications for future AI-assisted research tools that fully preserve researcher autonomy and intellectual ownership while harnessing computational scale. |
| title | Probing the Future of Meta-Analysis: Eliciting Design Principles via an Agentic Research IDE |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18239 |