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Understanding the Role of Large Language Models in Personalizing and Scaffolding Strategies to Combat Academic Procrastination.

Ananya BhattacharjeeYuchen ZengSarah Yi XuDana KulzhabayevaMinyi MaRachel KornfieldSyed Ishtiaque AhmedAlex MariakakisMary P CzerwinskiAnastasia KuzminykhMichael LiutJoseph Jay Williams
Published in: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. CHI Conference (2024)
Traditional interventions for academic procrastination often fail to capture the nuanced, individual-specific factors that underlie them. Large language models (LLMs) hold immense potential for addressing this gap by permitting open-ended inputs, including the ability to customize interventions to individuals' unique needs. However, user expectations and potential limitations of LLMs in this context remain underexplored. To address this, we conducted interviews and focus group discussions with 15 university students and 6 experts, during which a technology probe for generating personalized advice for managing procrastination was presented. Our results highlight the necessity for LLMs to provide structured, deadline-oriented steps and enhanced user support mechanisms. Additionally, our results surface the need for an adaptive approach to questioning based on factors like busyness. These findings offer crucial design implications for the development of LLM-based tools for managing procrastination while cautioning the use of LLMs for therapeutic guidance.
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