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"Pragmatic Tools or Empowering Friends?" Discovering and Co-Designing Personality-Aligned AI Writing Companions
Mengke Wu, Kexin Quan, Weizi Liu, Mike Yao, Jessie Chin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11115

"Pragmatic Tools or Empowering Friends?" Discovering and Co-Designing Personality-Aligned AI Writing Companions
The growing popularity of AI writing assistants presents exciting opportunities to craft tools that cater to diverse user needs. This study explores how personality shapes preferences for AI writing companions and how personalized designs can enhance human-AI teaming. In an exploratory co-design workshop, we worked with 24 writers with different profiles to surface ideas and map the design space for personality-aligned AI writing companions, focusing on functionality, interaction dynamics, and …

Collaborative Document Editing with Multiple Users and AI Agents
Florian Lehmann, Krystsina Shauchenka, Daniel Buschek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11826 https://

Collaborative Document Editing with Multiple Users and AI Agents
Current AI writing support tools are largely designed for individuals, complicating collaboration when co-writers must leave the shared workspace to use AI and then communicate and reintegrate results. We propose integrating AI agents directly into collaborative writing environments. Our prototype makes AI use transparent and customisable through two new shared objects: agent profiles and tasks. Agent responses appear in the familiar comment feature. In a user study (N=30), 14 teams worked on w…

Who Gets Seen in the Age of AI? Adoption Patterns of Large Language Models in Scholarly Writing and Citation Outcomes
Farhan Kamrul Khan, Hazem Ibrahim, Nouar Aldahoul, Talal Rahwan, Yasir Zaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08306

Who Gets Seen in the Age of AI? Adoption Patterns of Large Language Models in Scholarly Writing and Citation Outcomes
The rapid adoption of generative AI tools is reshaping how scholars produce and communicate knowledge, raising questions about who benefits and who is left behind. We analyze over 230,000 Scopus-indexed computer science articles between 2021 and 2025 to examine how AI-assisted writing alters scholarly visibility across regions. Using zero-shot detection of AI-likeness, we track stylistic changes in writing and link them to citation counts, journal placement, and global citation flows before and…

This blog post might be interesting for some "12 Things I Learned Writing CLI Tools in #Crystal"
https://dev.to/kojix2/12-things-i-learned-writing-cli-tools-in-…

12 Things I Learned Writing CLI Tools in Crystal
I love the Crystal programming language. For the past two or three years, I have been building...

Before I go writing my own, is anyone aware of a python package for solving employee scheduling type problems? Perhaps backed by Google's OR-Tools?
They have all the math covered, but the interface is a bit unwieldy. So I'd like to use or write something that is written with the domain in mind, not abstract optimization.
#LazyWeb

#NewPaper out on visualization of writing process data: “Designing Visual Tools for Writing Process Analysis” for #DocEng25. I developed new visualization models to capture both process and product of text production, suitable for qualitative exploration for both authors and researchers.
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You’ve probably heard of vibe coding
— novices writing apps by creating a simple AI prompt
— now Microsoft wants to introduce a similar thing for its Office apps.
The software maker is launching a new Agent Mode in Excel and Word that can generate complex spreadsheets and documents with just a prompt.
A new Office Agent in Copilot chat, powered by Anthropic models,
is also launching today that can create PowerPoint presentations and Word documents from a “vibe…

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Microsoft is launching new AI tools in its Office apps. A new Agent Mode comes to Word and Excel, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat.

"Navigating Generative #AI in Academic #Publishing: An Interview with Benjamin Luke Moorhouse"

Assessing prompting frameworks for enhancing literature reviews among university students using ChatGPT
Aminul Islam, Mukta Bansal, Lena Felix Stephanie, Poernomo Gunawan, Pui Tze Sian, Sabrina Luk, Eunice Tan, Hortense Le Ferrand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01128

Assessing prompting frameworks for enhancing literature reviews among university students using ChatGPT
Writing literature reviews is a common component of university curricula, yet it often poses challenges for students. Since generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools have been made publicly accessible, students have been employing them for their academic writing tasks. However, there is limited evidence of structured training on how to effectively use these GenAI tools to support students in writing literature reviews. In this study, we explore how university students use one of the most…

Pixel 10 series get a Gemini Nano-powered Journal app, music creation feature for recorder, NotebookLM integration for screenshots, Gboard Writing Tools, more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/20/pixel-10-journal-app/

Pixel 10 gets new Journal app, Recorder music creator, Gboard Smart Edit, more
With the Pixel 10, Google is introducing a new Journal app. There are also updates to Pixel Recorder, Screenshots, and Studio.

Interface Design to Support Legal Reading and Writing: Insights from Interviews with Legal Experts
Chelse Swoopes, Ziwei Gu, Elena L. Glassman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24854 h…

Interface Design to Support Legal Reading and Writing: Insights from Interviews with Legal Experts
Legal professionals spend significant time reading, writing, and interpreting complex documents, yet research has not fully captured how they approach these tasks or what they expect from skimming and writing-support tools. To examine practices and views on emerging tools, we interviewed 22 legal professionals about workflows, challenges, and technology use. In each session, we leveraged prior HCI-based skimming and writing prototypes that surface emergent cross-document relationships and suppo…

I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.

Write on Paper, Wrong in Practice: Why LLMs Still Struggle with Writing Clinical Notes
Kristina L. Kupferschmidt, Kieran O'Doherty, Joshua A. Skorburg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04340

Write on Paper, Wrong in Practice: Why LLMs Still Struggle with Writing Clinical Notes
Large Language Models (LLMs) are often proposed as tools to streamline clinical documentation, a task viewed as both high-volume and low-risk. However, even seemingly straightforward applications of LLMs raise complex sociotechnical considerations to translate into practice. This case study, conducted at KidsAbility, a pediatric rehabilitation facility in Ontario, Canada examined the use of LLMs to support occupational therapists in reducing documentation burden.We conducted a qualitative study…

Vistoria: A Multimodal System to Support Fictional Story Writing through Instrumental Text-Image Co-Editing
Kexue Fu, Jingfei Huang, Long Ling, Sumin Hong, Yihang Zuo, Ray LC, Toby Jia-jun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13646

Vistoria: A Multimodal System to Support Fictional Story Writing through Instrumental Text-Image Co-Editing
Humans think visually-we remember in images, dream in pictures, and use visual metaphors to communicate. Yet, most creative writing tools remain text-centric, limiting how authors plan and translate ideas. We present Vistoria, a system for synchronized text-image co-editing in fictional story writing that treats visuals and text as coequal narrative materials. A formative Wizard-of-Oz co-design study with 10 story writers revealed how sketches, images, and annotations serve as essential instrum…

Wanted also to test #postmarketos with plasma. It took a lot of time to install :
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medo@lenovoX270:~/postmarketOS> pmbootstrap flasher flash_rootfs
[19:20:35] (native) flash rootfs image
[19:20:37] (native) install android-tools
Sending sparse 'userdata' 1/7 (518847 KB) OKAY [504.951s]
Writing 'userdata' …