What Makes an AI Writing Companion a Good Fit? A Personality-Informed Co-Design Study

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Autores principales: Wu, Mengke, Quan, Kexin, Liu, Weizi, Yao, Mike, Chin, Jessie
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Publicado: 2026
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author Wu, Mengke
Quan, Kexin
Liu, Weizi
Yao, Mike
Chin, Jessie
author_facet Wu, Mengke
Quan, Kexin
Liu, Weizi
Yao, Mike
Chin, Jessie
contents The growing popularity of AI writing assistants creates exciting opportunities to support diverse writers. This study examines how personality shapes expectations for AI writing companions and how personality-informed design can enhance human-AI teaming in writing. Through exploratory co-design workshops with 24 writers representing different personality profiles, we elicited values and design ideas for AI writing companions spanning functionality, interaction dynamics, and visual representation. These insights informed two contrasting prototypes reflecting distinct writing orientations, used as design provocations in review-and-refinement workshops with eight participants to prompt reflection on fit, priorities, and writing practices. Our findings reveal both shared foundational needs across writers and meaningful personality-driven preferences that influence how writers engage with AI. This work underscores the importance of team matching in human-AI collaboration and demonstrates how aligning AI companions with individual cognitive and interpersonal needs can improve engagement and perceived collaboration effectiveness.
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spellingShingle What Makes an AI Writing Companion a Good Fit? A Personality-Informed Co-Design Study
Wu, Mengke
Quan, Kexin
Liu, Weizi
Yao, Mike
Chin, Jessie
Human-Computer Interaction
The growing popularity of AI writing assistants creates exciting opportunities to support diverse writers. This study examines how personality shapes expectations for AI writing companions and how personality-informed design can enhance human-AI teaming in writing. Through exploratory co-design workshops with 24 writers representing different personality profiles, we elicited values and design ideas for AI writing companions spanning functionality, interaction dynamics, and visual representation. These insights informed two contrasting prototypes reflecting distinct writing orientations, used as design provocations in review-and-refinement workshops with eight participants to prompt reflection on fit, priorities, and writing practices. Our findings reveal both shared foundational needs across writers and meaningful personality-driven preferences that influence how writers engage with AI. This work underscores the importance of team matching in human-AI collaboration and demonstrates how aligning AI companions with individual cognitive and interpersonal needs can improve engagement and perceived collaboration effectiveness.
title What Makes an AI Writing Companion a Good Fit? A Personality-Informed Co-Design Study
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01108