ECHO: An Open Research Platform for Evaluation of Chat, Human Behavior, and Outcomes

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Auteurs principaux: Liu, Jiqun, Dinesh, Nischal, Yu, Ran
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author Liu, Jiqun
Dinesh, Nischal
Yu, Ran
author_facet Liu, Jiqun
Dinesh, Nischal
Yu, Ran
contents ECHO (Evaluation of Chat, Human behavior, and Outcomes) is an open research platform designed to support reproducible, mixed-method studies of human interaction with both conversational AI systems and Web search engines. It enables researchers from varying disciplines to orchestrate end-to-end experimental workflows that integrate consent and background surveys, chat-based and search-based information-seeking sessions, writing or judgment tasks, and pre- and post-task evaluations within a unified, low-coding-load framework. ECHO logs fine-grained interaction traces and participant responses, and exports structured datasets for downstream analysis. By supporting both chat and search alongside flexible evaluation instruments, ECHO lowers technical barriers for studying learning, decision making, and user experience across different information access paradigms, empowering researchers from information retrieval, HCI, and the social sciences to conduct scalable and reproducible human-centered AI evaluations.
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spellingShingle ECHO: An Open Research Platform for Evaluation of Chat, Human Behavior, and Outcomes
Liu, Jiqun
Dinesh, Nischal
Yu, Ran
Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval
H.3.3; H.5.2
ECHO (Evaluation of Chat, Human behavior, and Outcomes) is an open research platform designed to support reproducible, mixed-method studies of human interaction with both conversational AI systems and Web search engines. It enables researchers from varying disciplines to orchestrate end-to-end experimental workflows that integrate consent and background surveys, chat-based and search-based information-seeking sessions, writing or judgment tasks, and pre- and post-task evaluations within a unified, low-coding-load framework. ECHO logs fine-grained interaction traces and participant responses, and exports structured datasets for downstream analysis. By supporting both chat and search alongside flexible evaluation instruments, ECHO lowers technical barriers for studying learning, decision making, and user experience across different information access paradigms, empowering researchers from information retrieval, HCI, and the social sciences to conduct scalable and reproducible human-centered AI evaluations.
title ECHO: An Open Research Platform for Evaluation of Chat, Human Behavior, and Outcomes
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval
H.3.3; H.5.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10295