Towards Cognitive Process-Aware Proactive Writing Support
Large language models can support writing, but existing tools require users to explicitly articulate prompts-particularly burdensome in creative writing, where intentions are often ambiguous. Proactive support that infers users' needs from writing interactions could alleviate this burden, but raises two challenges: determining what support to provide and when to intervene. This work focuses on the former. We hypothesize that Flower and Hayes' cognitive process theory of writing-which characterizes writing through six cognitive processes-offers an interpretable bridge between observable writing behavior and appropriate support types. Through a formative study and literature review, we iden...
| Authors | Masahiro Yoshida, Atsuya Kobayashi, Kei Tateno et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.HC |
| Published | 31 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 31 August 2026 |
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