Rethinking Citation of AI Sources in Student-AI Collaboration within HCI Design EducationPrakash Shukla, Suchismita Naik, Ike Obi, Jessica Backus, Nancy Rasche, Paul Parsonhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08467
Rethinking Citation of AI Sources in Student-AI Collaboration within HCI Design EducationThe growing integration of AI tools in student design projects presents an unresolved challenge in HCI education: how should AI-generated content be cited and documented? Traditional citation frameworks -- grounded in credibility, retrievability, and authorship -- struggle to accommodate the dynamic and ephemeral nature of AI outputs. In this paper, we examine how undergraduate students in a UX design course approached AI usage and citation when given the freedom to integrate generative tools i…