Can't think of a better time for this talk...My teammate
@advaitsarkar.bsky.social has made a powerful case for why we should design AI to augment our🧠 rather than think for us. Moreover, we have a vision for how we might get there.If you want to know what our Tools for Thought team has been up to👇
@advaitsarkar.bsky.social @rbanks2.bsky.social @seanrintel.bsky.social @elglassman.bsky.social @subramonyam.bsky.social @yvonnerogers.bsky.social @srishtipalani.bsky.social @majeedkazemi.bsky.social @nkittur.bsky.social
...and see this 📢 new call for articles for the forthcoming HCI Journal Special Issue of Human-Computer Interaction: “Generative AI in Tools for Thought: Theory, Design, & Assessment.”
tinyurl.com/t4tcfp
Proposals due Oct 15 2025. Full papers due Jan 28 2026.
At #CHI2025, we ran a workshop on 🧠Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with #GenerativeAI
What are the #HCI research+design opps in this space?
👉Read our new synthesis of the workshop:
arxiv.org/abs/2508.21036
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🙌🏻 Getting everyone moving and sharing perspectives along our human spectrogram at our #CHI2025 workshop on Tools for Thought & GenAI 🧠 #toolsforthought
ai-tools-for-thought.github.io/workshop/
How does using GenAI tools reshape knowledge workers’ critical thinking? Our #CHI2025 paper studied 319 knowledge workers to dive into this question. w/@advaitsarkar.bsky.social @levlevlev.bsky.social Ian, Sean, Richard, Nick @msftresearch.bsky.social @hcii.cmu.edu
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
📢 per popular demand, we've extended our submission deadline for our #CHI2025 workshop to Thurs Feb 20th AoE 🙂
. Key topics: theories and perspectives for understanding, protecting, and augmenting thinking with GenAI; challenges in designing GenAI systems; measuring GenAI's impact; its effect on human skills and workflows; and guidelines for designing protective and augmentative GenAI systems. Organizers include experts from Microsoft Research, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Tableau, University of Toronto, IBM Research, UCL, and Stanford. Logos of these institutions and the CHI 2025 logo appear at the bottom. The flyer features an illustration of a pensive person with a crowned bird on their head and the text "TOOLS FOR THOUGHT."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76dadnfugqbss4iwekw5blc/bafkreib3vcyby2ohginelta4sv7gse2r63znah2ot3sfmd5ec6qtlsu7n4)
Promotional flyer for the CHI'25 Workshop, "Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI," happening April 26, 2025, in Yokohama, Japan. Submission deadline: February 13, 2025, AoE. Workshop website: [https://aka.ms/toolsforthought-chi2025workshop](https://aka.ms/toolsforthought-chi2025workshop). Key topics: theories and perspectives for understanding, protecting, and augmenting thinking with GenAI; challenges in designing GenAI systems; measuring GenAI's impact; its effect on human skills and workflows; and guidelines for designing protective and augmentative GenAI systems. Organizers include experts from Microsoft Research, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, University of Chicago, Tableau, University of Toronto, IBM Research, UCL, and Stanford. Logos of these institutions and the CHI 2025 logo appear at the bottom. The flyer features an illustration of a pensive person with a crowned bird on their head and the text "TOOLS FOR THOUGHT."
📣#CHI2025 workshop: Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI
🌐https://aka.ms/toolsforthought-chi2025workshop
🗓️Submission deadline: Feb 13, 2025 AoE
#HCI #cogsci #AI #GenerativeAI #GenAI