"It Felt a Bit Eerie": Exploring Humanlike Interactions During Collaborative Writing with an Artificial Agent
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| author | Yin, Michael Chiang, Angela Cox, Samuel Rhys Xiao, Robert |
| author_facet | Yin, Michael Chiang, Angela Cox, Samuel Rhys Xiao, Robert |
| contents | While human-AI collaboration systems have increasingly been built to increase efficiency or support creativity, little work has examined how the design of interactions shapes the social connection between human and artificial agent. We examine how the temporal and visual dimensions of collaboration shape the experience of a writing task. Specifically, we built three variants of an AI-assisted text editor along a spectrum of simulated humanlike interaction (synchronous and with a cursor) to machinelike interaction (asynchronous and without a cursor), and conducted a comparative user study (n=48). Our exploratory findings suggest that synchronous suggestions increased efficiency but led to contextual misalignment, while a visual cursor increased intent understanding but evoked feelings of surveillance. Taken together, humanlike design of artificial agents can create positive social expectations but also elicit social costs, especially without the alignment present in human-human collaboration. We extend our findings into design implications and ethical considerations when building human-AI collaboration systems. |
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| spellingShingle | "It Felt a Bit Eerie": Exploring Humanlike Interactions During Collaborative Writing with an Artificial Agent Yin, Michael Chiang, Angela Cox, Samuel Rhys Xiao, Robert Human-Computer Interaction While human-AI collaboration systems have increasingly been built to increase efficiency or support creativity, little work has examined how the design of interactions shapes the social connection between human and artificial agent. We examine how the temporal and visual dimensions of collaboration shape the experience of a writing task. Specifically, we built three variants of an AI-assisted text editor along a spectrum of simulated humanlike interaction (synchronous and with a cursor) to machinelike interaction (asynchronous and without a cursor), and conducted a comparative user study (n=48). Our exploratory findings suggest that synchronous suggestions increased efficiency but led to contextual misalignment, while a visual cursor increased intent understanding but evoked feelings of surveillance. Taken together, humanlike design of artificial agents can create positive social expectations but also elicit social costs, especially without the alignment present in human-human collaboration. We extend our findings into design implications and ethical considerations when building human-AI collaboration systems. |
| title | "It Felt a Bit Eerie": Exploring Humanlike Interactions During Collaborative Writing with an Artificial Agent |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24729 |