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Through the Lens of Human-Human Collaboration: A Configurable Research Platform for Exploring Human-Agent Collaboration
Bingsheng Yao, Jiaju Chen, Chaoran Chen, April Wang, Toby Jia-jun Li, Dakuo Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18008

Through the Lens of Human-Human Collaboration: A Configurable Research Platform for Exploring Human-Agent Collaboration
Intelligent systems have traditionally been designed as tools rather than collaborators, often lacking critical characteristics that collaboration partnerships require. Recent advances in large language model (LLM) agents open new opportunities for human-LLM-agent collaboration by enabling natural communication and various social and cognitive behaviors. Yet it remains unclear whether principles of computer-mediated collaboration established in HCI and CSCW persist, change, or fail when humans …