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Large language model assistants (LLM-assistants) present new opportunities to transform software development. Developers are increasingly adopting these tools across tasks, including coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and design.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Amr Mohamed , Maram Assi , Mariam Guizani

Programmers frequently engage with machine learning tutorials in computational notebooks and have been adopting code generation technologies based on large language models (LLMs). However, they encounter difficulties in understanding and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Ruijia Cheng , Titus Barik , Alan Leung , Fred Hohman , Jeffrey Nichols

As generative artificial intelligence advances, Large Language Models (LLMs) are being explored for automated graphical user interface (GUI) design. This study investigates the usability and adaptability of LLM-generated interfaces by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Bartosz Sawicki , Tomasz Les , Dariusz Parzych , Aleksandra Wycisk-Ficek , Pawel Trebacz , Pawel Zawadzki

Utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) for complex tasks is challenging, often involving a time-consuming and uncontrollable prompt engineering process. This paper introduces a novel human-LLM interaction framework, Low-code LLM. It…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yuzhe Cai , Shaoguang Mao , Wenshan Wu , Zehua Wang , Yaobo Liang , Tao Ge , Chenfei Wu , Wang You , Ting Song , Yan Xia , Jonathan Tien , Nan Duan , Furu Wei

Conversational interfaces powered by large language models (LLMs) are widely used for ideation and analysis, yet their linear structure limits exploration of alternatives and management of long-running interactions. We present CanvasConvo,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Rifat Mehreen Amin , Alperen Adatepe , Daniela Fernandes , Daniel Buschek , Andreas Butz

Providing students with flexible and timely academic support is a challenge at most colleges and universities, leaving many students without help outside scheduled hours. Large language models (LLMs) are promising for bridging this gap, but…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Chang Liu , Loc Hoang , Andrew Stolman , Rene F. Kizilcec , Bo Wu

The widespread availability of Large Language Models (LLMs) within Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) has led to their speedy adoption. Conversational interactions with LLMs enable programmers to obtain natural language explanations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Bhavya Chopra , Yasharth Bajpai , Param Biyani , Gustavo Soares , Arjun Radhakrishna , Chris Parnin , Sumit Gulwani

With growing capabilities of large language models (LLMs) comes growing affordances for human-like and context-aware conversational partners. On from this, some recent work has investigated the use of LLMs to simulate multiple…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Samuel Rhys Cox

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly seen as assistants, copilots, and consultants, capable of supporting a wide range of tasks through natural conversation. However, most systems remain constrained by a linear request-response…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jiaqi Chen , Yanzhe Zhang , Yutong Zhang , Yijia Shao , Diyi Yang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming ubiquitous to create intelligent virtual assistants that assist users in interacting with a system, as exemplified in marketing. Although LLMs have been discussed in Modeling & Simulation (M&S), the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Philippe J. Giabbanelli , Jose J. Padilla , Ameeta Agrawal

The advancement of Large Language Models (LLM) has also resulted in an equivalent proliferation in its applications. Software design, being one, has gained tremendous benefits in using LLMs as an interface component that extends fixed user…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Claudionor N. Coelho , Hanchen Xiong , Tushar Karayil , Sree Koratala , Rex Shang , Jacob Bollinger , Mohamed Shabar , Syam Nair

Computational experiments have emerged as a valuable method for studying complex systems, involving the algorithmization of counterfactuals. However, accurately representing real social systems in Agent-based Modeling (ABM) is challenging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Qun Ma , Xiao Xue , Deyu Zhou , Xiangning Yu , Donghua Liu , Xuwen Zhang , Zihan Zhao , Yifan Shen , Peilin Ji , Juanjuan Li , Gang Wang , Wanpeng Ma

Computational notebooks, widely used for ad-hoc analysis and often shared with others, can be difficult to understand because the standard linear layout is not optimized for reading. In particular, related text, code, and outputs may be…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yanna Lin , Leni Yang , Haotian Li , Huamin Qu , Dominik Moritz

Large language models (LLMs) benefit greatly from prompt engineering, with in-context learning standing as a pivital technique. While former approaches have provided various ways to construct the demonstrations used for in-context learning,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yiming Tang , Bin Dong

Conversational search enables multi-turn interactions between users and systems to fulfill users' complex information needs. During this interaction, the system should understand the users' search intent within the conversational context…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Fengran Mo , Chuan Meng , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Jian-Yun Nie

In this paper, we outline potential ways for the further development of computational notebooks in Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). We discuss notebooks integration with IDEs, focusing on three main areas: facilitating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Sergey Titov , Konstantin Grotov , Ashwin Prasad S. Venkatesh

Building on Papert (1980)'s idea of children talking to computers, we propose ChatLogo, a hybrid natural-programming language interface for agent-based modeling and programming. We build upon previous efforts to scaffold ABM & P learning…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-17 John Chen , Uri Wilensky

In this work, we explore explicit Large Language Model (LLM)-powered support for the iterative design of computer programs. Program design, like other design activity, is characterized by navigating a space of alternative problem…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-11 J. D. Zamfirescu-Pereira , Eunice Jun , Michael Terry , Qian Yang , Björn Hartmann

This research investigates the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) to augment conversational agents in process mining, aiming to tackle its inherent complexity and diverse skill requirements. While LLM advancements present novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Urszula Jessen , Michal Sroka , Dirk Fahland

The massive trend of integrating data-driven AI capabilities into traditional software systems is rising new intriguing challenges. One of such challenges is achieving a smooth transition from the explorative phase of Machine Learning…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Luigi Quaranta