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Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in reasoning, demonstrating their capability to generate human-like responses. This study analyzes the problem-solving capabilities of LLMs in the domain of thermodynamics. A…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly competent across various domains, educators are showing a growing interest in integrating these LLMs into the learning process. Especially in software engineering, LLMs have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Agrawal Naman , Ridwan Shariffdeen , Guanlin Wang , Sanka Rasnayaka , Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer

Large Language Models (LLMs) have proven immensely beneficial in education by capturing vast amounts of literature-based information, allowing them to generate context without relying on external sources. In this paper, we propose a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Umar Ali Khan , Ekram Khan , Fiza Khan , Athar Ali Moinuddin

Chatbots have been an interesting application of natural language generation since its inception. With novel transformer based Generative AI methods, building chatbots have become trivial. Chatbots which are targeted at specific domains for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Bhashithe Abeysinghe , Ruhan Circi

Large Language Models (LLMs) are being increasingly employed in data science for tasks like data preprocessing and analytics. However, data scientists encounter substantial obstacles when conversing with LLM-powered chatbots and acting on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Bhavya Chopra , Ananya Singha , Anna Fariha , Sumit Gulwani , Chris Parnin , Ashish Tiwari , Austin Z. Henley

Large language model (LLM) applications, such as ChatGPT, are a powerful tool for online information-seeking (IS) and problem-solving tasks. However, users still face challenges initializing and refining prompts, and their cognitive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Ben Wang , Jiqun Liu , Jamshed Karimnazarov , Nicolas Thompson

Chatbots have shown promise as tools to scale qualitative data collection. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) could accelerate this process by allowing researchers to easily deploy sophisticated interviewing chatbots. We test…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Alejandro Cuevas , Jennifer V. Scurrell , Eva M. Brown , Jason Entenmann , Madeleine I. G. Daepp

The rapid integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into software engineering practice is reshaping how software testing activities are performed. LLMs are increasingly used to support software testing. Consequently, software testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Peng Yang , Yunfeng Zhu , Chao Chang , Shengcheng Yu , Zhenyu Chen , Yong Tang

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 rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), specifically large language models (LLMs), has opened opportunities for various educational applications. This paper explored the feasibility of utilizing ChatGPT, one of the most popular…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Zhengdong Zhang , Zihan Dong , Yang Shi , Noboru Matsuda , Thomas Price , Dongkuan Xu

While Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly integrating into daily life, research on their risks often remains lab-based and disconnected from the problems users encounter "in the wild." While recent HCI research has begun to explore…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Lingyao Li , Renkai Ma , Zhaoqian Xue , Junjie Xiong

Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly utilized in AI-aided education to support tutoring and learning. Effective communication strategies among LLM agents improve collaborative problem-solving efficiency and facilitate…

Simulated Students offer a valuable methodological framework for evaluating pedagogical approaches and modelling diverse learner profiles, tasks which are otherwise challenging to undertake systematically in real-world settings. Recent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Luis Marquez-Carpintero , Alberto Lopez-Sellers , Miguel Cazorla

When applied directly in an end-to-end manner to medical follow-up tasks, Large Language Models (LLMs) often suffer from uncontrolled dialog flow and inaccurate information extraction due to the complexity of follow-up forms. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jinyan Liu , Zikang Chen , Qinchuan Wang , Tan Xie , Heming Zheng , Xudong Lv

Users can discuss a wide range of topics with large language models (LLMs), but they do not always prefer solving problems or getting information through lengthy conversations. This raises an intriguing HCI question: How does instructing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Shih-Hong Huang , Ya-Fang Lin , Zeyu He , Chieh-Yang Huang , Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang

Effective collaboration requires groups to strategically regulate themselves to overcome challenges. Research has shown that groups may fail to regulate due to differences in members' perceptions of challenges which may benefit from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Wannapon Suraworachet , Jennifer Seon , Mutlu Cukurova

People experiencing severe distress increasingly use Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots as mental health support tools. Discussions on social media have described how engagements were lifesaving for some, but evidence suggests that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Inhwa Song , Sachin R. Pendse , Neha Kumar , Munmun De Choudhury

This full research-to-practice paper explores approaches for developing course chatbots by comparing low-code platforms and custom-coded solutions in educational contexts. With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and LLaMA,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Hemil Mehta , Tanvi Raut , Kohav Yadav , Edward F. Gehringer

The paper aims to fulfil three main functions: (1) to serve as an introduction for the physics education community to the functioning of Large Language Models (LLMs), (2) to present a series of illustrative examples demonstrating how…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-01-31 Giulia Polverini , Bor Gregorcic

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional natural language understanding abilities and have excelled in a variety of natural language processing (NLP)tasks in recent years. Despite the fact that most LLMs are trained…

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