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Christine P. Lee

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LearnMate^2: Design and Evaluation of an LLM-powered Personalized and Adaptive Support System for Online Learning

Personalization is crucial for effective learning, yet online learning, designed for widespread availability and open access, lacks personalized guidance. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) offer opportunities to bridge this gap. We explore how LLM-driven tools may be designed to support personalized and adaptive learning and examine how they shape user experience and learning outcomes. We iteratively designed \tool{} to support online learning by providing personalized study plans, real-time contextual assistance, and adaptive learning activities. A preliminary study ($n=24$) assessed the effectiveness and usability of \tool{} and informed refinements in our system, which we then evaluated ($n = 16$) against a combination of a state-of-the-art online learning platform and an LLM for learning support. Results indicate that \tool{} advances AI pedagogy by improving both learning outcomes and user experience compared to existing online learning and support tools. This work advances our understanding of the design space of personalized, AI-driven educational tools and their potential impact on user experience.

cs.HC

Making the Invisible Visible: Understanding the Mismatch Between Organizational Goals and Worker Experiences in AI Adoption

While AI is often introduced into organizations to drive innovation and efficiency, many adoption efforts fail as workers resist and struggle to integrate these systems. These failures point to a deeper issue: workers, the very people expected to collaborate with AI, are often invisible in decisions about how AI is designed and used. Drawing on interviews with professionals who interact with AI systems daily in healthcare, finance, and management, we examine the disconnect between organizational expectations and worker experiences. We identify key barriers, including poor usability and interoperability, misaligned expectations, limited control, and insufficient communication. These challenges highlight a gap between how organizations implement AI and the evolving worker needs, tasks, and workflows that it fails to support. We argue that successful adoption requires recognizing workers as central to AI integration and propose adaptation strategies at the individual, task, and organizational levels to better align AI systems with real-world practices.

cs.AI

Bridging Generations using AI-Supported Co-Creative Activities

Intergenerational co-creation using technology between grandparents and grandchildren can be challenging due to differences in technological familiarity. AI has emerged as a promising tool to support co-creative activities, offering flexibility and creative assistance, but its role in facilitating intergenerational connection remains underexplored. In this study, we conducted a user study with 29 grandparent-grandchild groups engaged in AI-supported story creation to examine how AI-assisted co-creation can foster meaningful intergenerational bonds. Our findings show that grandchildren managed the technical aspects, while grandparents contributed creative ideas and guided the storytelling. AI played a key role in structuring the activity, facilitating brainstorming, enhancing storytelling, and balancing the contributions of both generations. The process fostered mutual appreciation, with each generation recognizing the strengths of the other, leading to an engaging and cohesive co-creation process. We offer design implications for integrating AI into intergenerational co-creative activities, emphasizing how AI can enhance connection across skill levels and technological familiarity.

cs.HC

Understanding Large-Language Model (LLM)-powered Human-Robot Interaction

Large-language models (LLMs) hold significant promise in improving human-robot interaction, offering advanced conversational skills and versatility in managing diverse, open-ended user requests in various tasks and domains. Despite the potential to transform human-robot interaction, very little is known about the distinctive design requirements for utilizing LLMs in robots, which may differ from text and voice interaction and vary by task and context. To better understand these requirements, we conducted a user study (n = 32) comparing an LLM-powered social robot against text- and voice-based agents, analyzing task-based requirements in conversational tasks, including choose, generate, execute, and negotiate. Our findings show that LLM-powered robots elevate expectations for sophisticated non-verbal cues and excel in connection-building and deliberation, but fall short in logical communication and may induce anxiety. We provide design implications both for robots integrating LLMs and for fine-tuning LLMs for use with robots.

cs.RO