A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants
This work provides a foundational framework for researchers and designers to navigate and compare writing assistant possibilities, though it is incremental as it organizes existing knowledge rather than introducing new methods.
The authors tackled the fragmented research landscape for writing assistants by proposing a structured design space to explore their multidimensional aspects, resulting in a practical tool based on a systematic review of 115 papers.
In our era of rapid technological advancement, the research landscape for writing assistants has become increasingly fragmented across various research communities. We seek to address this challenge by proposing a design space as a structured way to examine and explore the multidimensional space of intelligent and interactive writing assistants. Through a large community collaboration, we explore five aspects of writing assistants: task, user, technology, interaction, and ecosystem. Within each aspect, we define dimensions (i.e., fundamental components of an aspect) and codes (i.e., potential options for each dimension) by systematically reviewing 115 papers. Our design space aims to offer researchers and designers a practical tool to navigate, comprehend, and compare the various possibilities of writing assistants, and aid in the envisioning and design of new writing assistants.