Human agency relocates from interface affordances to conversational processes of goal articulation, output evaluation, and outcome negotiation in AI interactions.
Hutchins, James D
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Committing to explicit meaning via a domain-grounded vocabulary of individuals, actions, facts, and concepts improves software usability, enables modular LLM code generation, and supports accountable agent behavior.
A systematic review and interview study characterize creativity in visualization design, finding that design processes are undervalued compared to final artifacts with ideation as a universal bottleneck.
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From Execution to Education: A Bloom-Aligned Framework for Measuring Educational Control in LLMs
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Characterizing Creativity in Data Visualization: Reflections and Future Directions
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