Guided Sensemaking: Agents in Collaborative Deliberation
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| author | Bhatia, Aaditya Bhatia, Navdeep Kaur Parent, Marc-Antoine Park, Jack |
| author_facet | Bhatia, Aaditya Bhatia, Navdeep Kaur Parent, Marc-Antoine Park, Jack |
| contents | Generative AI systems are aggressively reshaping how students engage with information and perform cognitive work; convenience-oriented use has the potential to displace effortful reasoning, reflection, and learning, especially for those who lack domain expertise and effective human-AI interaction strategies. Current AI tools are heavily focused on chat-style interfaces geared towards answer generation and efficiency in a linear and fragmented stream of text, offering limited support for structured reflection, argument construction, and sensemaking in collaborative contexts. We introduce Guided Sensemaking, an AI-augmented multiagent discourse platform that facilitates composition of well-thought-out ideas around a central question, provides scaffolding for critical thinking, and enables visualization of argumentative structure to support critical thinking and collaborative deliberation. The system uses several interactive agents to provide context-sensitive questioning prompts and a scaffolding for thought that exposes thematic clusters, agreements, and points of contention without collapsing diverse perspectives. This paper proposes a conceptual design and interaction paradigm that positions generative AI not as a shortcut to answers but as a research partner that externalizes reasoning, preserves user agency, and fosters structured, traceable sensemaking in educational and civic contexts. |
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| spellingShingle | Guided Sensemaking: Agents in Collaborative Deliberation Bhatia, Aaditya Bhatia, Navdeep Kaur Parent, Marc-Antoine Park, Jack Human-Computer Interaction Generative AI systems are aggressively reshaping how students engage with information and perform cognitive work; convenience-oriented use has the potential to displace effortful reasoning, reflection, and learning, especially for those who lack domain expertise and effective human-AI interaction strategies. Current AI tools are heavily focused on chat-style interfaces geared towards answer generation and efficiency in a linear and fragmented stream of text, offering limited support for structured reflection, argument construction, and sensemaking in collaborative contexts. We introduce Guided Sensemaking, an AI-augmented multiagent discourse platform that facilitates composition of well-thought-out ideas around a central question, provides scaffolding for critical thinking, and enables visualization of argumentative structure to support critical thinking and collaborative deliberation. The system uses several interactive agents to provide context-sensitive questioning prompts and a scaffolding for thought that exposes thematic clusters, agreements, and points of contention without collapsing diverse perspectives. This paper proposes a conceptual design and interaction paradigm that positions generative AI not as a shortcut to answers but as a research partner that externalizes reasoning, preserves user agency, and fosters structured, traceable sensemaking in educational and civic contexts. |
| title | Guided Sensemaking: Agents in Collaborative Deliberation |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02260 |