MetaCues: Enabling Critical Engagement with Generative AI for Information Seeking and Sensemaking
Generative AI (GenAI) search tools are increasingly used for information seeking, yet their design tends to encourage cognitive offloading, which may lead to passive engagement, selective attention, and informational homogenization. Effective use requires metacognitive engagement to craft good prompts, verify AI outputs, and critically engage with information. We developed MetaCues, a novel GenAI-based interactive tool for information seeking that delivers metacognitive cues alongside AI responses and a note-taking interface to guide users' search and associated learning. Through an online study (N = 146), we compared MetaCues to a baseline tool without cues, across two broad search topic...
| Authors | Anjali Singh, Karan Taneja, Zhitong Guan et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.HC |
| Published | 20 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 20 March 2026 |
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