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The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI — Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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tankelevitch-et-al-2024-metacognitive-demands
Authors
Tankelevitch, Lev; Kewenig, Viktor; Simkute, Auste; Scott, Ava Elizabeth; Sarkar, Advait; Sellen, Abigail; Rintel, Sean
Issued
2024-5
Type
paper-conference
Container
Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Pages
1-24
Raw CSL JSON
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  "page": "1-24",
  "type": "paper-conference",
  "title": "The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI",
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Claims

  1. Generative AI systems impose multiple metacognitive demands on users, requiring a high degree of metacognitive monitoring and control across formulating prompts, evaluating outputs, and deciding whether and how to apply the tool.
    "Drawing on research in psychology and cognitive science, and recent GenAI user studies, we illustrate how GenAI systems impose metacognitive demands on users, requiring a high degree of metacognitive monitoring and control."
    Quote language: en
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