Advait Sarkar

Senior Researcher

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- Filter Babel: The Challenge of Synthetic Media to Authenticity and Common Ground in AI-Mediated Communication
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  CHI '26 AI-MC | April 2026
  
  Publication
- From Binary Groundedness to Support Relations: Towards a Reader-Centred Taxonomy for Comprehension of AI Output
  
  Advait Sarkar, Christian Poelitz, Viktor Kewenig
  
  ACM CHI 2026 Workshop on Science and Technology for Augmenting Reading (CHI '26 STAR) | April 2026
  
  PDF Project
- Generative Design and Vibe Coding: Rethinking The Design-Development Divide for UI Prototyping
  
  Xinqi Zhang, Hari Subramonyam, Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Jack Wang, Kyungho Lee, Veronica Pimenova, Xiang "Anthony" Chen, Kai Lukoff
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) | April 2026
  
  Publication Project
- Tools for Thought: Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI — From Vision to Implementation
  
  Zelun Tony Zhang, Nick von Felten, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Zhitong Guan, Sean Rintel, Yue Fu, Jessica He, Kenneth Holstein, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Anuschka Schmitt, Anjali Singh, Haotian Li, Srishti Palani, Peter Dalsgaard
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) | April 2026
  
  Publication Project
- New Future of Work Report 2025
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Rebecca Janssen, Nancy Baym, Jake Hofman, Brent Hecht, Sean Rintel, Bahar Sarrafzadeh, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Jaime Teevan, Mohammed Alsobay, Liz Ankrah, Stephanie Beers, Megan Benzing, Mia Bruch, Zana Buçinca, Mar Carpanelli, Amelia Cole, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Justin Edwards, Alex Farach, Daniel G. Goldstein, Mary L. Gray, Javier Hernandez, Eric Horvitz, Nicole Immorlica, Kori Inkpen, Shamsi Iqbal, Manasa Jagadeesh, Siân Lindley, Brendan Lucier, Mercy Muchai, Ambrita Nand, Alexandra Olteanu, Jacki O'Neill, Max Peterschmidt, Christian Poelitz, Rabeeza, Nathalie Henry Riche, Advait Sarkar, Sunayana Sitaram, Amanda Snellinger, Jina Suh, John Tang, Lev Tankelevitch, Kiran Tomlinson, Anne Trapasso, Adam D. Troy, Gaurav Verma, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn, Jordana Young
  
  MSR-TR-2025-58 | December 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- “How Do You Even Know That Stuff?”: Barriers to Expertise Sharing Among Spreadsheet Users
  
  Qing (Nancy) Xia, Advait Sarkar, Duncan P. Brumby, Anna Cox
  
  Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (2025) | October 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project Project Project
- Vibe coding: programming through conversation with artificial intelligence
  
  Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos
  
  Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2025) | September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI: A Synthesis of the CHI 2025 Tools for Thought Workshop
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ArXiv | August 2025
  
  Preprint Project
- Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks
  
  Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Microsoft Foundry Labs
  
  PDF DOI Video Access Project Project Project
- Evaluating the Evaluator: Measuring LLMs’ Adherence to Task Evaluation Instructions
  
  Bhuvanashree Murugadoss, Christian Poelitz, Ian Drosos, Vu Le, Nick McKenna, Carina Suzana Negreanu, Chris Parnin, Advait Sarkar
  
  The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025) | April 2025
  
  Publication Publication Project
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  
  Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, Nicholas Wilson
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project
- Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Majeed Kazemitabaar, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025) | April 2025
  
  PDF Project
- The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025
  
  Richard Banks, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Leon Reicherts, Pratik Ghosh
  
  December 2024
  
  Publication Project
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project Project
- AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  October 2024
  
  CACM Cover Story
  
  Author's Version DOI Video Project Project Project
- Improving Steering and Verification in AI-Assisted Data Analysis with Interactive Task Decomposition
  
  Majeed Kazemitabaar, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Tovi Grossman, Austin Henley, Carina Negreanu, Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology | October 2024
  
  Preprint Project
- Predictability of identifier naming with Copilot: A case study for mixed-initiative programming tools
  
  Michael Jing Long Lee, Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell
  
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024) | October 2024
  
  PDF Publication Project Project
- Diversity in Study Participants and a Critique of the “Representative Sample” in Human-Computer Interaction Research
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  2024 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) Workshop on Addressing Challenges in Recruiting Participants for Human-Centric Computing Research Studies | September 2024
  
  Publication Publication Project Project
- Intention Is All You Need
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024) | September 2024
  
  Publication Project Project
- The Paradox of Spreadsheet Self-Efficacy: Social Incentives for Informal Knowledge Sharing in End-User Programming
  
  Advait Sarkar, Qing (Nancy) Xia, Duncan P. Brumby, Anna Cox
  
  2024 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2024
  
  Publication Publication Project
- “It’s like a rubber duck that talks back”: Understanding Generative AI-Assisted Data Analysis Workflows through a Participatory Prompting Study
  
  Ian Drosos, Advait Sarkar, Xiaotong Xu, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  CHIWORK 2024 | June 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Solving Data-centric Tasks using Large Language Models
  
  Shraddha Barke, Christian Poelitz, Carina Negreanu, Ben Zorn, José Cambronero, Andy Gordon, Vu Le, Elnaz Nouri, Nadia Polikarpova, Advait Sarkar, Brian Slininger, Neil Toronto, Jack Williams
  
  Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics | June 2024
  
  Publication
- Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
  
  PDF Project Project
- The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI '24 | May 2024
  
  Best Paper, CHI 2024
  
  Preprint DOI Preprint Video Project Project Project
- Will Code Remain a Relevant User Interface for End-User Programming with Generative AI Models?
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! 2023) | October 2023
  
  PDF Publication DOI Project Project
- Co-audit: tools to help humans double-check AI-generated content
  
  Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, José Cambronero, Rasika Mudumbai Chakravarthy, Ian Drosos, Hao Fang, Bhaskar Mitra, Hannah Richardson (nee Murfet), Advait Sarkar, Stephanie Simmons, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
  
  October 2023
  
  Preprint Project Project
- ColDeco: An End User Spreadsheet Inspection Tool for AI-Generated Code
  
  Kasra Ferdowsi, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Nadia Polikarpova, Advait Sarkar, Ben Zorn
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing | October 2023
  
  Publication Project Project Project
- Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows
  
  Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Robert DeLIne, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2023) | August 2023
  
  PDF Project Project Project
- Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2023) | June 2023
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Is a Return To Office a Return To Creativity? Requiring Fixed Time In Office To Enable Brainstorms and Watercooler Talk May Not Foster Research Creativity
  
  Tianna Xu, Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel
  
  CHIWORK 2023 | June 2023
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project
- “What It Wants Me To Say”: Bridging the Abstraction Gap Between End-User Programmers and Code-Generating Large Language Models
  
  Michael Xieyang Liu, Advait Sarkar, Carina Negreanu, Ben Zorn, Jack Williams, Neil Toronto, Andy Gordon
  
  Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2023
  
  Honorable mention
  
  PDF Publication DOI Video Project Project
- Should Computers Be Easy To Use? Questioning the Doctrine of Simplicity in User Interface Design
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2023) | April 2023
  
  PDF Publication DOI Project Project
- Meeting (the) Pandemic: Videoconferencing Fatigue and Evolving Tensions of Sociality in Enterprise Video Meetings During COVID-19
  
  Rachel Bergman, Sean Rintel, Nancy Baym, Advait Sarkar, Damian Borowiec, Priscilla Wong, Abigail Sellen
  
  Computer-Supported Cooperative Work | November 2022
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project Project Project
- End-user encounters with lambda abstraction in spreadsheets: Apollo’s bow or Achilles’ heel?
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Jack Williams, Andy Gordon
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2022
  
  PDF Project
- What is it like to program with artificial intelligence?
  
  Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Christian Poelitz, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2022) | September 2022
  
  PDF Project Project
- Making Space for Social Time: Supporting Conversational Transitions Before, During, and After Video Meetings
  
  Carlos Gonzalez Diaz, John Tang, Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel
  
  CHIWORK 2022 | June 2022
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project Project
- “It’s Freedom to Put Things Where My Mind Wants”: Understanding and Improving the User Experience of Structuring Data in Spreadsheets
  
  George Chalhoub, Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2022
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Is explainable AI a race against model complexity?
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Workshop on Transparency and Explanations in Smart Systems (TeXSS), in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2022) | March 2022
  
  PDF Project
- Spreadsheet Comprehension: Guesswork, Giving up and Going back to the Author
  
  Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon
  
  CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2021
  
  PDF DOI Project
- The Promise and Peril of Parallel Chat in Video Meetings for Work
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Damian Borowiec, Rachel Bergmann, Sharon Gillett, Danielle Bragg, Nancy Baym, Abigail Sellen
  
  CHI 2021 | May 2021
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project Project Project
- TweakIt: Supporting End-User Programmers Who Transmogrify Code
  
  Samuel Lau, Advait Sarkar, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Titus Barik
  
  Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2021
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Parallel Meeting Chat Guide for Moderators and Participants
  
  Sharon Gillett, Danielle Bragg, Nancy Baym, Rachel Bergmann, Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen
  
  2021-02-FOW-SIM2 | February 2021
  
  Published by Microsoft Research
  
  Publication PDF Project Project Project
- Methodology and Participation for 2020 Diary Study of Microsoft Employees Experiences in Remote Meetings During COVID-19
  
  Sean Rintel, Priscilla Wong, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen
  
  2020-10-FOW-SIM1 | October 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft Research
  
  PDF Project Project Project
- Elastic Sheet-Defined Functions: Generalising Spreadsheet Functions to Variable-Size Input Arrays
  
  Matt McCutchen, Judith Borghouts, Andy Gordon, Simon Peyton Jones, Advait Sarkar
  
  Journal of Functional Programming | August 2020, Vol 30(e26)
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Understanding and Inferring Units in Spreadsheets
  
  Jack Williams, Carina Negreanu, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | July 2020
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Excello: exploring spreadsheets for music composition
  
  Henry Mattinson, Advait Sarkar
  
  July 2020
  
  Author's Version
- Gridlets: Reusing Spreadsheet Grids
  
  Nima Joharizadeh, Advait Sarkar, Jack Williams, Andy Gordon
  
  38th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20 Extended Abstracts) | April 2020
  
  PDF DOI Publication Project
- Higher-Order Spreadsheets with Spilled Arrays
  
  Jack Williams, Nima Joharizadeh, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar
  
  European Symposium on Programming | April 2020
  
  PDF DOI Publication Project
- Spreadsheet Use and Programming Experience: an Exploratory Survey
  
  Advait Sarkar, Judith W. Borghouts, Anusha Iyer, Sneha Khullar, Christian Canton, Felienne Hermans, Andy Gordon, Jack Williams
  
  38th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20 Extended Abstracts) | April 2020
  
  PDF DOI Publication Project
- End-User Probabilistic Programming
  
  Judith Borghouts, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar, Neil Toronto
  
  International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems | September 2019
  
  Editor(s): David Parker and Verena Wolf
  
  PDF Project
- Comparative judgments are more consistent than binary classification for labelling word complexity
  
  Sian Gooding, Ekaterina Kochmar, Advait Sarkar, Alan F Blackwell
  
  Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XIII), co-located with ACL 2019 | August 2019
  
  PDF Publication
- Do We Need Natural Language? Exploring Restricted Language Interfaces for Complex Domains
  
  Jesse Mu, Advait Sarkar
  
  37th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19 Extended Abstracts) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI
- Perceptions of Chatbots in Therapy
  
  Samuel Bell, Clara Wood, Advait Sarkar
  
  37th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19 Extended Abstracts) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI
- Somewhere Around That Number: An Interview Study of How Spreadsheet Users Manage Uncertainty
  
  Judith Borghouts, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar, Kenton O'Hara, Neil Toronto
  
  May 2019
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Assessing Public Perception of Self-Driving Cars: the Autonomous Vehicle Acceptance Model
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Ioannis Politis, Theocharis Amanatidis, Advait Sarkar
  
  24th International Conference on Intelligent User interfaces (IUI 2019) | March 2019
  
  PDF DOI Publication
- Evaluating Rule-based Programming and Reinforcement Learning for Personalising an Intelligent System
  
  Ruixue Liu, Advait Sarkar, Erin Solovey, Sebastian Tschiatschek
  
  2nd Workshop on Explainable Smart Systems (ExSS 2019), held in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2019) | March 2019
  
  PDF
- Setwise comparison: efficient fine-grained rating of movement videos using algorithmic support – a proof of concept study
  
  Abigail Sellen, Advait Sarkar, Cecily Morrison, Peter Kontschieder
  
  Disability and Rehabilitation | February 2019
  
  DOI
- Calculation View: multiple-representation editing in spreadsheets
  
  Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon, Simon Peyton Jones, Neil Toronto
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | October 2018
  
  PDF Publication DOI Project
- How do people learn to use spreadsheets? (Work in progress)
  
  Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon
  
  Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG) | September 2018
  
  PDF Project
- Setwise Comparison: Consistent, Scalable, Continuum Labels for Machine Learning
  
  Advait Sarkar, Cecily Morrison, FJ Dorn, R. Bedi, S. Steinheimer, J. Boisvert, J. Burggraaff, M. D'Souza, P. Kontschieder, S. Rota Bulo, L. Walsh, ChP. Kamm, Yordan Zaykov, Abigail Sellen, Siân Lindley
  
  Proceedings of CHI 2016 | January 2016
  
  Publication
- Interactive visual machine learning in spreadsheets
  
  Advait Sarkar, Mateja Jamnik, Alan F Blackwell, Martin Spott
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2015
  
  DOI PDF Publication Project

- Filter Babel: The Challenge of Synthetic Media to Authenticity and Common Ground in AI-Mediated Communication
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  CHI '26 AI-MC | April 2026
  
  Publication
- From Binary Groundedness to Support Relations: Towards a Reader-Centred Taxonomy for Comprehension of AI Output
  
  Advait Sarkar, Christian Poelitz, Viktor Kewenig
  
  ACM CHI 2026 Workshop on Science and Technology for Augmenting Reading (CHI '26 STAR) | April 2026
  
  PDF Project
- Generative Design and Vibe Coding: Rethinking The Design-Development Divide for UI Prototyping
  
  Xinqi Zhang, Hari Subramonyam, Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Jack Wang, Kyungho Lee, Veronica Pimenova, Xiang "Anthony" Chen, Kai Lukoff
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) | April 2026
  
  Publication Project
- Tools for Thought: Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI — From Vision to Implementation
  
  Zelun Tony Zhang, Nick von Felten, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Zhitong Guan, Sean Rintel, Yue Fu, Jessica He, Kenneth Holstein, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Anuschka Schmitt, Anjali Singh, Haotian Li, Srishti Palani, Peter Dalsgaard
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) | April 2026
  
  Publication Project
- New Future of Work Report 2025
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Rebecca Janssen, Nancy Baym, Jake Hofman, Brent Hecht, Sean Rintel, Bahar Sarrafzadeh, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Jaime Teevan, Mohammed Alsobay, Liz Ankrah, Stephanie Beers, Megan Benzing, Mia Bruch, Zana Buçinca, Mar Carpanelli, Amelia Cole, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Justin Edwards, Alex Farach, Daniel G. Goldstein, Mary L. Gray, Javier Hernandez, Eric Horvitz, Nicole Immorlica, Kori Inkpen, Shamsi Iqbal, Manasa Jagadeesh, Siân Lindley, Brendan Lucier, Mercy Muchai, Ambrita Nand, Alexandra Olteanu, Jacki O'Neill, Max Peterschmidt, Christian Poelitz, Rabeeza, Nathalie Henry Riche, Advait Sarkar, Sunayana Sitaram, Amanda Snellinger, Jina Suh, John Tang, Lev Tankelevitch, Kiran Tomlinson, Anne Trapasso, Adam D. Troy, Gaurav Verma, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn, Jordana Young
  
  MSR-TR-2025-58 | December 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- “How Do You Even Know That Stuff?”: Barriers to Expertise Sharing Among Spreadsheet Users
  
  Qing (Nancy) Xia, Advait Sarkar, Duncan P. Brumby, Anna Cox
  
  Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (2025) | October 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Vibe coding: programming through conversation with artificial intelligence
  
  Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos
  
  Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2025) | September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project
- TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project Project Project
- Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI: A Synthesis of the CHI 2025 Tools for Thought Workshop
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ArXiv | August 2025
  
  Preprint Project
- Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks
  
  Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Microsoft Foundry Labs
  
  PDF DOI Video Access Project Project Project
- Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Majeed Kazemitabaar, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025) | April 2025
  
  PDF Project
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  
  Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, Nicholas Wilson
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project
- The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025
  
  Richard Banks, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Leon Reicherts, Pratik Ghosh
  
  December 2024
  
  Publication Project
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project Project
- Predictability of identifier naming with Copilot: A case study for mixed-initiative programming tools
  
  Michael Jing Long Lee, Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell
  
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024) | October 2024
  
  PDF Publication Project Project
- Improving Steering and Verification in AI-Assisted Data Analysis with Interactive Task Decomposition
  
  Majeed Kazemitabaar, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Tovi Grossman, Austin Henley, Carina Negreanu, Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology | October 2024
  
  Preprint Project
- AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  October 2024
  
  CACM Cover Story
  
  Author's Version DOI Video Project Project Project
- The Paradox of Spreadsheet Self-Efficacy: Social Incentives for Informal Knowledge Sharing in End-User Programming
  
  Advait Sarkar, Qing (Nancy) Xia, Duncan P. Brumby, Anna Cox
  
  2024 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2024
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Diversity in Study Participants and a Critique of the “Representative Sample” in Human-Computer Interaction Research
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  2024 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) Workshop on Addressing Challenges in Recruiting Participants for Human-Centric Computing Research Studies | September 2024
  
  Publication Publication Project Project
- Intention Is All You Need
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024) | September 2024
  
  Publication Project Project
- “It’s like a rubber duck that talks back”: Understanding Generative AI-Assisted Data Analysis Workflows through a Participatory Prompting Study
  
  Ian Drosos, Advait Sarkar, Xiaotong Xu, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  CHIWORK 2024 | June 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
  
  PDF Project Project
- The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI '24 | May 2024
  
  Best Paper, CHI 2024
  
  Preprint DOI Preprint Video Project Project Project
- Will Code Remain a Relevant User Interface for End-User Programming with Generative AI Models?
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! 2023) | October 2023
  
  PDF Publication DOI Project Project
- Co-audit: tools to help humans double-check AI-generated content
  
  Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, José Cambronero, Rasika Mudumbai Chakravarthy, Ian Drosos, Hao Fang, Bhaskar Mitra, Hannah Richardson (nee Murfet), Advait Sarkar, Stephanie Simmons, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
  
  October 2023
  
  Preprint Project Project
- ColDeco: An End User Spreadsheet Inspection Tool for AI-Generated Code
  
  Kasra Ferdowsi, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Nadia Polikarpova, Advait Sarkar, Ben Zorn
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing | October 2023
  
  Publication Project Project Project
- Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows
  
  Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Robert DeLIne, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2023) | August 2023
  
  PDF Project Project Project
- Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2023) | June 2023
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Is a Return To Office a Return To Creativity? Requiring Fixed Time In Office To Enable Brainstorms and Watercooler Talk May Not Foster Research Creativity
  
  Tianna Xu, Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel
  
  CHIWORK 2023 | June 2023
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project
- Should Computers Be Easy To Use? Questioning the Doctrine of Simplicity in User Interface Design
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2023) | April 2023
  
  PDF Publication DOI Project Project
- “What It Wants Me To Say”: Bridging the Abstraction Gap Between End-User Programmers and Code-Generating Large Language Models
  
  Michael Xieyang Liu, Advait Sarkar, Carina Negreanu, Ben Zorn, Jack Williams, Neil Toronto, Andy Gordon
  
  Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2023
  
  Honorable mention
  
  PDF Publication DOI Video Project Project
- Meeting (the) Pandemic: Videoconferencing Fatigue and Evolving Tensions of Sociality in Enterprise Video Meetings During COVID-19
  
  Rachel Bergman, Sean Rintel, Nancy Baym, Advait Sarkar, Damian Borowiec, Priscilla Wong, Abigail Sellen
  
  Computer-Supported Cooperative Work | November 2022
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project Project Project
- What is it like to program with artificial intelligence?
  
  Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Christian Poelitz, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2022) | September 2022
  
  PDF Project Project
- End-user encounters with lambda abstraction in spreadsheets: Apollo’s bow or Achilles’ heel?
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Jack Williams, Andy Gordon
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2022
  
  PDF Project
- Making Space for Social Time: Supporting Conversational Transitions Before, During, and After Video Meetings
  
  Carlos Gonzalez Diaz, John Tang, Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel
  
  CHIWORK 2022 | June 2022
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project Project
- “It’s Freedom to Put Things Where My Mind Wants”: Understanding and Improving the User Experience of Structuring Data in Spreadsheets
  
  George Chalhoub, Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2022
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Is explainable AI a race against model complexity?
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Workshop on Transparency and Explanations in Smart Systems (TeXSS), in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2022) | March 2022
  
  PDF Project
- The Promise and Peril of Parallel Chat in Video Meetings for Work
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Damian Borowiec, Rachel Bergmann, Sharon Gillett, Danielle Bragg, Nancy Baym, Abigail Sellen
  
  CHI 2021 | May 2021
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project Project Project
- Spreadsheet Comprehension: Guesswork, Giving up and Going back to the Author
  
  Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon
  
  CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2021
  
  PDF DOI Project
- TweakIt: Supporting End-User Programmers Who Transmogrify Code
  
  Samuel Lau, Advait Sarkar, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Titus Barik
  
  Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2021
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Parallel Meeting Chat Guide for Moderators and Participants
  
  Sharon Gillett, Danielle Bragg, Nancy Baym, Rachel Bergmann, Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen
  
  2021-02-FOW-SIM2 | February 2021
  
  Published by Microsoft Research
  
  Publication PDF Project Project Project
- Methodology and Participation for 2020 Diary Study of Microsoft Employees Experiences in Remote Meetings During COVID-19
  
  Sean Rintel, Priscilla Wong, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen
  
  2020-10-FOW-SIM1 | October 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft Research
  
  PDF Project Project Project
- Elastic Sheet-Defined Functions: Generalising Spreadsheet Functions to Variable-Size Input Arrays
  
  Matt McCutchen, Judith Borghouts, Andy Gordon, Simon Peyton Jones, Advait Sarkar
  
  Journal of Functional Programming | August 2020, Vol 30(e26)
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Understanding and Inferring Units in Spreadsheets
  
  Jack Williams, Carina Negreanu, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | July 2020
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Spreadsheet Use and Programming Experience: an Exploratory Survey
  
  Advait Sarkar, Judith W. Borghouts, Anusha Iyer, Sneha Khullar, Christian Canton, Felienne Hermans, Andy Gordon, Jack Williams
  
  38th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20 Extended Abstracts) | April 2020
  
  PDF DOI Publication Project
- Gridlets: Reusing Spreadsheet Grids
  
  Nima Joharizadeh, Advait Sarkar, Jack Williams, Andy Gordon
  
  38th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20 Extended Abstracts) | April 2020
  
  PDF DOI Publication Project
- Higher-Order Spreadsheets with Spilled Arrays
  
  Jack Williams, Nima Joharizadeh, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar
  
  European Symposium on Programming | April 2020
  
  PDF DOI Publication Project
- End-User Probabilistic Programming
  
  Judith Borghouts, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar, Neil Toronto
  
  International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems | September 2019
  
  Editor(s): David Parker and Verena Wolf
  
  PDF Project
- Comparative judgments are more consistent than binary classification for labelling word complexity
  
  Sian Gooding, Ekaterina Kochmar, Advait Sarkar, Alan F Blackwell
  
  Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XIII), co-located with ACL 2019 | August 2019
  
  PDF Publication
- Somewhere Around That Number: An Interview Study of How Spreadsheet Users Manage Uncertainty
  
  Judith Borghouts, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar, Kenton O'Hara, Neil Toronto
  
  May 2019
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Do We Need Natural Language? Exploring Restricted Language Interfaces for Complex Domains
  
  Jesse Mu, Advait Sarkar
  
  37th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19 Extended Abstracts) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI
- Perceptions of Chatbots in Therapy
  
  Samuel Bell, Clara Wood, Advait Sarkar
  
  37th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19 Extended Abstracts) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI
- Assessing Public Perception of Self-Driving Cars: the Autonomous Vehicle Acceptance Model
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Ioannis Politis, Theocharis Amanatidis, Advait Sarkar
  
  24th International Conference on Intelligent User interfaces (IUI 2019) | March 2019
  
  PDF DOI Publication
- Evaluating Rule-based Programming and Reinforcement Learning for Personalising an Intelligent System
  
  Ruixue Liu, Advait Sarkar, Erin Solovey, Sebastian Tschiatschek
  
  2nd Workshop on Explainable Smart Systems (ExSS 2019), held in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2019) | March 2019
  
  PDF
- Setwise comparison: efficient fine-grained rating of movement videos using algorithmic support – a proof of concept study
  
  Abigail Sellen, Advait Sarkar, Cecily Morrison, Peter Kontschieder
  
  Disability and Rehabilitation | February 2019
  
  DOI
- Calculation View: multiple-representation editing in spreadsheets
  
  Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon, Simon Peyton Jones, Neil Toronto
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | October 2018
  
  PDF Publication DOI Project
- How do people learn to use spreadsheets? (Work in progress)
  
  Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon
  
  Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG) | September 2018
  
  PDF Project
- Setwise Comparison: Consistent, Scalable, Continuum Labels for Machine Learning
  
  Advait Sarkar, Cecily Morrison, FJ Dorn, R. Bedi, S. Steinheimer, J. Boisvert, J. Burggraaff, M. D'Souza, P. Kontschieder, S. Rota Bulo, L. Walsh, ChP. Kamm, Yordan Zaykov, Abigail Sellen, Siân Lindley
  
  Proceedings of CHI 2016 | January 2016
  
  Publication
- Interactive visual machine learning in spreadsheets
  
  Advait Sarkar, Mateja Jamnik, Alan F Blackwell, Martin Spott
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2015
  
  DOI PDF Publication Project
- From Binary Groundedness to Support Relations: Towards a Reader-Centred Taxonomy for Comprehension of AI Output
  
  Advait Sarkar, Christian Poelitz, Viktor Kewenig
  
  ACM CHI 2026 Workshop on Science and Technology for Augmenting Reading (CHI '26 STAR) | April 2026
  
  PDF Project
- Generative Design and Vibe Coding: Rethinking The Design-Development Divide for UI Prototyping
  
  Xinqi Zhang, Hari Subramonyam, Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Jack Wang, Kyungho Lee, Veronica Pimenova, Xiang "Anthony" Chen, Kai Lukoff
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) | April 2026
  
  Publication Project
- Tools for Thought: Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI — From Vision to Implementation
  
  Zelun Tony Zhang, Nick von Felten, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Zhitong Guan, Sean Rintel, Yue Fu, Jessica He, Kenneth Holstein, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Anuschka Schmitt, Anjali Singh, Haotian Li, Srishti Palani, Peter Dalsgaard
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) | April 2026
  
  Publication Project
- New Future of Work Report 2025
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Rebecca Janssen, Nancy Baym, Jake Hofman, Brent Hecht, Sean Rintel, Bahar Sarrafzadeh, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Jaime Teevan, Mohammed Alsobay, Liz Ankrah, Stephanie Beers, Megan Benzing, Mia Bruch, Zana Buçinca, Mar Carpanelli, Amelia Cole, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Justin Edwards, Alex Farach, Daniel G. Goldstein, Mary L. Gray, Javier Hernandez, Eric Horvitz, Nicole Immorlica, Kori Inkpen, Shamsi Iqbal, Manasa Jagadeesh, Siân Lindley, Brendan Lucier, Mercy Muchai, Ambrita Nand, Alexandra Olteanu, Jacki O'Neill, Max Peterschmidt, Christian Poelitz, Rabeeza, Nathalie Henry Riche, Advait Sarkar, Sunayana Sitaram, Amanda Snellinger, Jina Suh, John Tang, Lev Tankelevitch, Kiran Tomlinson, Anne Trapasso, Adam D. Troy, Gaurav Verma, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn, Jordana Young
  
  MSR-TR-2025-58 | December 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Vibe coding: programming through conversation with artificial intelligence
  
  Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos
  
  Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2025) | September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project
- TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project Project Project
- Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI: A Synthesis of the CHI 2025 Tools for Thought Workshop
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ArXiv | August 2025
  
  Preprint Project
- Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks
  
  Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Microsoft Foundry Labs
  
  PDF DOI Video Access Project Project Project
- Evaluating the Evaluator: Measuring LLMs’ Adherence to Task Evaluation Instructions
  
  Bhuvanashree Murugadoss, Christian Poelitz, Ian Drosos, Vu Le, Nick McKenna, Carina Suzana Negreanu, Chris Parnin, Advait Sarkar
  
  The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025) | April 2025
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Majeed Kazemitabaar, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025) | April 2025
  
  PDF Project
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  
  Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, Nicholas Wilson
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project
- The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025
  
  Richard Banks, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Leon Reicherts, Pratik Ghosh
  
  December 2024
  
  Publication Project
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project Project
- Predictability of identifier naming with Copilot: A case study for mixed-initiative programming tools
  
  Michael Jing Long Lee, Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell
  
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024) | October 2024
  
  PDF Publication Project Project
- Improving Steering and Verification in AI-Assisted Data Analysis with Interactive Task Decomposition
  
  Majeed Kazemitabaar, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Tovi Grossman, Austin Henley, Carina Negreanu, Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology | October 2024
  
  Preprint Project
- AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  October 2024
  
  CACM Cover Story
  
  Author's Version DOI Video Project Project Project
- Intention Is All You Need
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024) | September 2024
  
  Publication Project Project
- Solving Data-centric Tasks using Large Language Models
  
  Shraddha Barke, Christian Poelitz, Carina Negreanu, Ben Zorn, José Cambronero, Andy Gordon, Vu Le, Elnaz Nouri, Nadia Polikarpova, Advait Sarkar, Brian Slininger, Neil Toronto, Jack Williams
  
  Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics | June 2024
  
  Publication
- “It’s like a rubber duck that talks back”: Understanding Generative AI-Assisted Data Analysis Workflows through a Participatory Prompting Study
  
  Ian Drosos, Advait Sarkar, Xiaotong Xu, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  CHIWORK 2024 | June 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
  
  PDF Project Project
- The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI '24 | May 2024
  
  Best Paper, CHI 2024
  
  Preprint DOI Preprint Video Project Project Project
- Will Code Remain a Relevant User Interface for End-User Programming with Generative AI Models?
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! 2023) | October 2023
  
  PDF Publication DOI Project Project
- Co-audit: tools to help humans double-check AI-generated content
  
  Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, José Cambronero, Rasika Mudumbai Chakravarthy, Ian Drosos, Hao Fang, Bhaskar Mitra, Hannah Richardson (nee Murfet), Advait Sarkar, Stephanie Simmons, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
  
  October 2023
  
  Preprint Project Project
- ColDeco: An End User Spreadsheet Inspection Tool for AI-Generated Code
  
  Kasra Ferdowsi, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Nadia Polikarpova, Advait Sarkar, Ben Zorn
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing | October 2023
  
  Publication Project Project Project
- Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows
  
  Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Robert DeLIne, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2023) | August 2023
  
  PDF Project Project Project
- Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2023) | June 2023
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- “What It Wants Me To Say”: Bridging the Abstraction Gap Between End-User Programmers and Code-Generating Large Language Models
  
  Michael Xieyang Liu, Advait Sarkar, Carina Negreanu, Ben Zorn, Jack Williams, Neil Toronto, Andy Gordon
  
  Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2023
  
  Honorable mention
  
  PDF Publication DOI Video Project Project
- What is it like to program with artificial intelligence?
  
  Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Christian Poelitz, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2022) | September 2022
  
  PDF Project Project
- Is explainable AI a race against model complexity?
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Workshop on Transparency and Explanations in Smart Systems (TeXSS), in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2022) | March 2022
  
  PDF Project
- Understanding and Inferring Units in Spreadsheets
  
  Jack Williams, Carina Negreanu, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | July 2020
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Comparative judgments are more consistent than binary classification for labelling word complexity
  
  Sian Gooding, Ekaterina Kochmar, Advait Sarkar, Alan F Blackwell
  
  Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XIII), co-located with ACL 2019 | August 2019
  
  PDF Publication
- Do We Need Natural Language? Exploring Restricted Language Interfaces for Complex Domains
  
  Jesse Mu, Advait Sarkar
  
  37th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19 Extended Abstracts) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI
- Assessing Public Perception of Self-Driving Cars: the Autonomous Vehicle Acceptance Model
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Ioannis Politis, Theocharis Amanatidis, Advait Sarkar
  
  24th International Conference on Intelligent User interfaces (IUI 2019) | March 2019
  
  PDF DOI Publication
- Evaluating Rule-based Programming and Reinforcement Learning for Personalising an Intelligent System
  
  Ruixue Liu, Advait Sarkar, Erin Solovey, Sebastian Tschiatschek
  
  2nd Workshop on Explainable Smart Systems (ExSS 2019), held in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2019) | March 2019
  
  PDF
- Setwise comparison: efficient fine-grained rating of movement videos using algorithmic support – a proof of concept study
  
  Abigail Sellen, Advait Sarkar, Cecily Morrison, Peter Kontschieder
  
  Disability and Rehabilitation | February 2019
  
  DOI
- Setwise Comparison: Consistent, Scalable, Continuum Labels for Machine Learning
  
  Advait Sarkar, Cecily Morrison, FJ Dorn, R. Bedi, S. Steinheimer, J. Boisvert, J. Burggraaff, M. D'Souza, P. Kontschieder, S. Rota Bulo, L. Walsh, ChP. Kamm, Yordan Zaykov, Abigail Sellen, Siân Lindley
  
  Proceedings of CHI 2016 | January 2016
  
  Publication
- Interactive visual machine learning in spreadsheets
  
  Advait Sarkar, Mateja Jamnik, Alan F Blackwell, Martin Spott
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2015
  
  DOI PDF Publication Project
- From Binary Groundedness to Support Relations: Towards a Reader-Centred Taxonomy for Comprehension of AI Output
  
  Advait Sarkar, Christian Poelitz, Viktor Kewenig
  
  ACM CHI 2026 Workshop on Science and Technology for Augmenting Reading (CHI '26 STAR) | April 2026
  
  PDF Project
- TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project Project Project
- Evaluating the Evaluator: Measuring LLMs’ Adherence to Task Evaluation Instructions
  
  Bhuvanashree Murugadoss, Christian Poelitz, Ian Drosos, Vu Le, Nick McKenna, Carina Suzana Negreanu, Chris Parnin, Advait Sarkar
  
  The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025) | April 2025
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Majeed Kazemitabaar, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025) | April 2025
  
  PDF Project
- AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  October 2024
  
  CACM Cover Story
  
  Author's Version DOI Video Project Project Project
- Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
  
  PDF Project Project
- Will Code Remain a Relevant User Interface for End-User Programming with Generative AI Models?
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! 2023) | October 2023
  
  PDF Publication DOI Project Project
- Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows
  
  Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Robert DeLIne, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2023) | August 2023
  
  PDF Project Project Project
- What is it like to program with artificial intelligence?
  
  Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Christian Poelitz, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2022) | September 2022
  
  PDF Project Project
- Comparative judgments are more consistent than binary classification for labelling word complexity
  
  Sian Gooding, Ekaterina Kochmar, Advait Sarkar, Alan F Blackwell
  
  Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XIII), co-located with ACL 2019 | August 2019
  
  PDF Publication
- Do We Need Natural Language? Exploring Restricted Language Interfaces for Complex Domains
  
  Jesse Mu, Advait Sarkar
  
  37th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19 Extended Abstracts) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI
- Generative Design and Vibe Coding: Rethinking The Design-Development Divide for UI Prototyping
  
  Xinqi Zhang, Hari Subramonyam, Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Jack Wang, Kyungho Lee, Veronica Pimenova, Xiang "Anthony" Chen, Kai Lukoff
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) | April 2026
  
  Publication Project
- New Future of Work Report 2025
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Rebecca Janssen, Nancy Baym, Jake Hofman, Brent Hecht, Sean Rintel, Bahar Sarrafzadeh, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Jaime Teevan, Mohammed Alsobay, Liz Ankrah, Stephanie Beers, Megan Benzing, Mia Bruch, Zana Buçinca, Mar Carpanelli, Amelia Cole, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Justin Edwards, Alex Farach, Daniel G. Goldstein, Mary L. Gray, Javier Hernandez, Eric Horvitz, Nicole Immorlica, Kori Inkpen, Shamsi Iqbal, Manasa Jagadeesh, Siân Lindley, Brendan Lucier, Mercy Muchai, Ambrita Nand, Alexandra Olteanu, Jacki O'Neill, Max Peterschmidt, Christian Poelitz, Rabeeza, Nathalie Henry Riche, Advait Sarkar, Sunayana Sitaram, Amanda Snellinger, Jina Suh, John Tang, Lev Tankelevitch, Kiran Tomlinson, Anne Trapasso, Adam D. Troy, Gaurav Verma, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn, Jordana Young
  
  MSR-TR-2025-58 | December 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Vibe coding: programming through conversation with artificial intelligence
  
  Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos
  
  Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2025) | September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project Project
- Predictability of identifier naming with Copilot: A case study for mixed-initiative programming tools
  
  Michael Jing Long Lee, Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell
  
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024) | October 2024
  
  PDF Publication Project Project
- Intention Is All You Need
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024) | September 2024
  
  Publication Project Project
- Will Code Remain a Relevant User Interface for End-User Programming with Generative AI Models?
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! 2023) | October 2023
  
  PDF Publication DOI Project Project
- Co-audit: tools to help humans double-check AI-generated content
  
  Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, José Cambronero, Rasika Mudumbai Chakravarthy, Ian Drosos, Hao Fang, Bhaskar Mitra, Hannah Richardson (nee Murfet), Advait Sarkar, Stephanie Simmons, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
  
  October 2023
  
  Preprint Project Project
- ColDeco: An End User Spreadsheet Inspection Tool for AI-Generated Code
  
  Kasra Ferdowsi, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Nadia Polikarpova, Advait Sarkar, Ben Zorn
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing | October 2023
  
  Publication Project Project Project
- “What It Wants Me To Say”: Bridging the Abstraction Gap Between End-User Programmers and Code-Generating Large Language Models
  
  Michael Xieyang Liu, Advait Sarkar, Carina Negreanu, Ben Zorn, Jack Williams, Neil Toronto, Andy Gordon
  
  Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2023
  
  Honorable mention
  
  PDF Publication DOI Video Project Project
- What is it like to program with artificial intelligence?
  
  Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Christian Poelitz, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2022) | September 2022
  
  PDF Project Project
- End-user encounters with lambda abstraction in spreadsheets: Apollo’s bow or Achilles’ heel?
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Jack Williams, Andy Gordon
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2022
  
  PDF Project
- “It’s Freedom to Put Things Where My Mind Wants”: Understanding and Improving the User Experience of Structuring Data in Spreadsheets
  
  George Chalhoub, Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2022
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Is explainable AI a race against model complexity?
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Workshop on Transparency and Explanations in Smart Systems (TeXSS), in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2022) | March 2022
  
  PDF Project
- Spreadsheet Comprehension: Guesswork, Giving up and Going back to the Author
  
  Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon
  
  CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2021
  
  PDF DOI Project
- TweakIt: Supporting End-User Programmers Who Transmogrify Code
  
  Samuel Lau, Advait Sarkar, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Titus Barik
  
  Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2021
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Elastic Sheet-Defined Functions: Generalising Spreadsheet Functions to Variable-Size Input Arrays
  
  Matt McCutchen, Judith Borghouts, Andy Gordon, Simon Peyton Jones, Advait Sarkar
  
  Journal of Functional Programming | August 2020, Vol 30(e26)
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Understanding and Inferring Units in Spreadsheets
  
  Jack Williams, Carina Negreanu, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | July 2020
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Excello: exploring spreadsheets for music composition
  
  Henry Mattinson, Advait Sarkar
  
  July 2020
  
  Author's Version
- Spreadsheet Use and Programming Experience: an Exploratory Survey
  
  Advait Sarkar, Judith W. Borghouts, Anusha Iyer, Sneha Khullar, Christian Canton, Felienne Hermans, Andy Gordon, Jack Williams
  
  38th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20 Extended Abstracts) | April 2020
  
  PDF DOI Publication Project
- Gridlets: Reusing Spreadsheet Grids
  
  Nima Joharizadeh, Advait Sarkar, Jack Williams, Andy Gordon
  
  38th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20 Extended Abstracts) | April 2020
  
  PDF DOI Publication Project
- Higher-Order Spreadsheets with Spilled Arrays
  
  Jack Williams, Nima Joharizadeh, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar
  
  European Symposium on Programming | April 2020
  
  PDF DOI Publication Project
- End-User Probabilistic Programming
  
  Judith Borghouts, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar, Neil Toronto
  
  International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems | September 2019
  
  Editor(s): David Parker and Verena Wolf
  
  PDF Project
- Calculation View: multiple-representation editing in spreadsheets
  
  Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon, Simon Peyton Jones, Neil Toronto
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | October 2018
  
  PDF Publication DOI Project
- New Future of Work Report 2025
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Rebecca Janssen, Nancy Baym, Jake Hofman, Brent Hecht, Sean Rintel, Bahar Sarrafzadeh, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Jaime Teevan, Mohammed Alsobay, Liz Ankrah, Stephanie Beers, Megan Benzing, Mia Bruch, Zana Buçinca, Mar Carpanelli, Amelia Cole, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Justin Edwards, Alex Farach, Daniel G. Goldstein, Mary L. Gray, Javier Hernandez, Eric Horvitz, Nicole Immorlica, Kori Inkpen, Shamsi Iqbal, Manasa Jagadeesh, Siân Lindley, Brendan Lucier, Mercy Muchai, Ambrita Nand, Alexandra Olteanu, Jacki O'Neill, Max Peterschmidt, Christian Poelitz, Rabeeza, Nathalie Henry Riche, Advait Sarkar, Sunayana Sitaram, Amanda Snellinger, Jina Suh, John Tang, Lev Tankelevitch, Kiran Tomlinson, Anne Trapasso, Adam D. Troy, Gaurav Verma, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn, Jordana Young
  
  MSR-TR-2025-58 | December 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project Project
- Improving Steering and Verification in AI-Assisted Data Analysis with Interactive Task Decomposition
  
  Majeed Kazemitabaar, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Tovi Grossman, Austin Henley, Carina Negreanu, Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology | October 2024
  
  Preprint Project
- New Future of Work Report 2025
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Rebecca Janssen, Nancy Baym, Jake Hofman, Brent Hecht, Sean Rintel, Bahar Sarrafzadeh, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Jaime Teevan, Mohammed Alsobay, Liz Ankrah, Stephanie Beers, Megan Benzing, Mia Bruch, Zana Buçinca, Mar Carpanelli, Amelia Cole, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Justin Edwards, Alex Farach, Daniel G. Goldstein, Mary L. Gray, Javier Hernandez, Eric Horvitz, Nicole Immorlica, Kori Inkpen, Shamsi Iqbal, Manasa Jagadeesh, Siân Lindley, Brendan Lucier, Mercy Muchai, Ambrita Nand, Alexandra Olteanu, Jacki O'Neill, Max Peterschmidt, Christian Poelitz, Rabeeza, Nathalie Henry Riche, Advait Sarkar, Sunayana Sitaram, Amanda Snellinger, Jina Suh, John Tang, Lev Tankelevitch, Kiran Tomlinson, Anne Trapasso, Adam D. Troy, Gaurav Verma, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn, Jordana Young
  
  MSR-TR-2025-58 | December 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project Project
- New Future of Work Report 2025
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Rebecca Janssen, Nancy Baym, Jake Hofman, Brent Hecht, Sean Rintel, Bahar Sarrafzadeh, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Jaime Teevan, Mohammed Alsobay, Liz Ankrah, Stephanie Beers, Megan Benzing, Mia Bruch, Zana Buçinca, Mar Carpanelli, Amelia Cole, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Justin Edwards, Alex Farach, Daniel G. Goldstein, Mary L. Gray, Javier Hernandez, Eric Horvitz, Nicole Immorlica, Kori Inkpen, Shamsi Iqbal, Manasa Jagadeesh, Siân Lindley, Brendan Lucier, Mercy Muchai, Ambrita Nand, Alexandra Olteanu, Jacki O'Neill, Max Peterschmidt, Christian Poelitz, Rabeeza, Nathalie Henry Riche, Advait Sarkar, Sunayana Sitaram, Amanda Snellinger, Jina Suh, John Tang, Lev Tankelevitch, Kiran Tomlinson, Anne Trapasso, Adam D. Troy, Gaurav Verma, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn, Jordana Young
  
  MSR-TR-2025-58 | December 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks
  
  Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Microsoft Foundry Labs
  
  PDF DOI Video Access Project Project Project
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  
  Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, Nicholas Wilson
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project
- The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025
  
  Richard Banks, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Leon Reicherts, Pratik Ghosh
  
  December 2024
  
  Publication Project
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project Project
- AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  October 2024
  
  CACM Cover Story
  
  Author's Version DOI Video Project Project Project
- “It’s like a rubber duck that talks back”: Understanding Generative AI-Assisted Data Analysis Workflows through a Participatory Prompting Study
  
  Ian Drosos, Advait Sarkar, Xiaotong Xu, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  CHIWORK 2024 | June 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
  
  PDF Project Project
- The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI '24 | May 2024
  
  Best Paper, CHI 2024
  
  Preprint DOI Preprint Video Project Project Project
- Is a Return To Office a Return To Creativity? Requiring Fixed Time In Office To Enable Brainstorms and Watercooler Talk May Not Foster Research Creativity
  
  Tianna Xu, Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel
  
  CHIWORK 2023 | June 2023
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project
- Meeting (the) Pandemic: Videoconferencing Fatigue and Evolving Tensions of Sociality in Enterprise Video Meetings During COVID-19
  
  Rachel Bergman, Sean Rintel, Nancy Baym, Advait Sarkar, Damian Borowiec, Priscilla Wong, Abigail Sellen
  
  Computer-Supported Cooperative Work | November 2022
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project Project Project
- Making Space for Social Time: Supporting Conversational Transitions Before, During, and After Video Meetings
  
  Carlos Gonzalez Diaz, John Tang, Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel
  
  CHIWORK 2022 | June 2022
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project Project
- The Promise and Peril of Parallel Chat in Video Meetings for Work
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Damian Borowiec, Rachel Bergmann, Sharon Gillett, Danielle Bragg, Nancy Baym, Abigail Sellen
  
  CHI 2021 | May 2021
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project Project Project
- Parallel Meeting Chat Guide for Moderators and Participants
  
  Sharon Gillett, Danielle Bragg, Nancy Baym, Rachel Bergmann, Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen
  
  2021-02-FOW-SIM2 | February 2021
  
  Published by Microsoft Research
  
  Publication PDF Project Project Project
- Methodology and Participation for 2020 Diary Study of Microsoft Employees Experiences in Remote Meetings During COVID-19
  
  Sean Rintel, Priscilla Wong, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen
  
  2020-10-FOW-SIM1 | October 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft Research
  
  PDF Project Project Project
- Assessing Public Perception of Self-Driving Cars: the Autonomous Vehicle Acceptance Model
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Ioannis Politis, Theocharis Amanatidis, Advait Sarkar
  
  24th International Conference on Intelligent User interfaces (IUI 2019) | March 2019
  
  PDF DOI Publication

- Filter Babel: The Challenge of Synthetic Media to Authenticity and Common Ground in AI-Mediated Communication
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  CHI '26 AI-MC | April 2026
  
  Publication
- From Binary Groundedness to Support Relations: Towards a Reader-Centred Taxonomy for Comprehension of AI Output
  
  Advait Sarkar, Christian Poelitz, Viktor Kewenig
  
  ACM CHI 2026 Workshop on Science and Technology for Augmenting Reading (CHI '26 STAR) | April 2026
  
  PDF Project
- Generative Design and Vibe Coding: Rethinking The Design-Development Divide for UI Prototyping
  
  Xinqi Zhang, Hari Subramonyam, Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Jack Wang, Kyungho Lee, Veronica Pimenova, Xiang "Anthony" Chen, Kai Lukoff
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) | April 2026
  
  Publication Project
- Tools for Thought: Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI — From Vision to Implementation
  
  Zelun Tony Zhang, Nick von Felten, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Zhitong Guan, Sean Rintel, Yue Fu, Jessica He, Kenneth Holstein, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Anuschka Schmitt, Anjali Singh, Haotian Li, Srishti Palani, Peter Dalsgaard
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) | April 2026
  
  Publication Project
- “How Do You Even Know That Stuff?”: Barriers to Expertise Sharing Among Spreadsheet Users
  
  Qing (Nancy) Xia, Advait Sarkar, Duncan P. Brumby, Anna Cox
  
  Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (2025) | October 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Vibe coding: programming through conversation with artificial intelligence
  
  Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos
  
  Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2025) | September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks
  
  Ian Drosos, Jack Williams, Advait Sarkar, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Rintel, Payod Panda
  
  CHIWORK 2025 | June 2025
  
  Microsoft Foundry Labs
  
  PDF DOI Video Access Project Project Project
- Evaluating the Evaluator: Measuring LLMs’ Adherence to Task Evaluation Instructions
  
  Bhuvanashree Murugadoss, Christian Poelitz, Ian Drosos, Vu Le, Nick McKenna, Carina Suzana Negreanu, Chris Parnin, Advait Sarkar
  
  The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025) | April 2025
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Majeed Kazemitabaar, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025) | April 2025
  
  PDF Project
- The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers
  
  Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, Nicholas Wilson
  
  CHI 2025 | April 2025
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project
- Predictability of identifier naming with Copilot: A case study for mixed-initiative programming tools
  
  Michael Jing Long Lee, Advait Sarkar, Alan F. Blackwell
  
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024) | October 2024
  
  PDF Publication Project Project
- Improving Steering and Verification in AI-Assisted Data Analysis with Interactive Task Decomposition
  
  Majeed Kazemitabaar, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Tovi Grossman, Austin Henley, Carina Negreanu, Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology | October 2024
  
  Preprint Project
- The Paradox of Spreadsheet Self-Efficacy: Social Incentives for Informal Knowledge Sharing in End-User Programming
  
  Advait Sarkar, Qing (Nancy) Xia, Duncan P. Brumby, Anna Cox
  
  2024 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2024
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Diversity in Study Participants and a Critique of the “Representative Sample” in Human-Computer Interaction Research
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  2024 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) Workshop on Addressing Challenges in Recruiting Participants for Human-Centric Computing Research Studies | September 2024
  
  Publication Publication Project Project
- Intention Is All You Need
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2024) | September 2024
  
  Publication Project Project
- Solving Data-centric Tasks using Large Language Models
  
  Shraddha Barke, Christian Poelitz, Carina Negreanu, Ben Zorn, José Cambronero, Andy Gordon, Vu Le, Elnaz Nouri, Nadia Polikarpova, Advait Sarkar, Brian Slininger, Neil Toronto, Jack Williams
  
  Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics | June 2024
  
  Publication
- “It’s like a rubber duck that talks back”: Understanding Generative AI-Assisted Data Analysis Workflows through a Participatory Prompting Study
  
  Ian Drosos, Advait Sarkar, Xiaotong Xu, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch
  
  CHIWORK 2024 | June 2024
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  ACM CHI 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI 2024) | May 2024
  
  PDF Project Project
- The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Auste Simkute, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
  
  CHI '24 | May 2024
  
  Best Paper, CHI 2024
  
  Preprint DOI Preprint Video Project Project Project
- Will Code Remain a Relevant User Interface for End-User Programming with Generative AI Models?
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! 2023) | October 2023
  
  PDF Publication DOI Project Project
- ColDeco: An End User Spreadsheet Inspection Tool for AI-Generated Code
  
  Kasra Ferdowsi, Jack Williams, Ian Drosos, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Nadia Polikarpova, Advait Sarkar, Ben Zorn
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing | October 2023
  
  Publication Project Project Project
- Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows
  
  Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos, Robert DeLIne, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Sean Rintel, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2023) | August 2023
  
  PDF Project Project Project
- Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2023) | June 2023
  
  PDF DOI Project Project
- Is a Return To Office a Return To Creativity? Requiring Fixed Time In Office To Enable Brainstorms and Watercooler Talk May Not Foster Research Creativity
  
  Tianna Xu, Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel
  
  CHIWORK 2023 | June 2023
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project
- Should Computers Be Easy To Use? Questioning the Doctrine of Simplicity in User Interface Design
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2023) | April 2023
  
  PDF Publication DOI Project Project
- “What It Wants Me To Say”: Bridging the Abstraction Gap Between End-User Programmers and Code-Generating Large Language Models
  
  Michael Xieyang Liu, Advait Sarkar, Carina Negreanu, Ben Zorn, Jack Williams, Neil Toronto, Andy Gordon
  
  Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2023
  
  Honorable mention
  
  PDF Publication DOI Video Project Project
- What is it like to program with artificial intelligence?
  
  Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, Christian Poelitz, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Ben Zorn
  
  Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG 2022) | September 2022
  
  PDF Project Project
- End-user encounters with lambda abstraction in spreadsheets: Apollo’s bow or Achilles’ heel?
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Jack Williams, Andy Gordon
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2022
  
  PDF Project
- Making Space for Social Time: Supporting Conversational Transitions Before, During, and After Video Meetings
  
  Carlos Gonzalez Diaz, John Tang, Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel
  
  CHIWORK 2022 | June 2022
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project Project
- “It’s Freedom to Put Things Where My Mind Wants”: Understanding and Improving the User Experience of Structuring Data in Spreadsheets
  
  George Chalhoub, Advait Sarkar
  
  Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2022
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Is explainable AI a race against model complexity?
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  Workshop on Transparency and Explanations in Smart Systems (TeXSS), in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2022) | March 2022
  
  PDF Project
- The Promise and Peril of Parallel Chat in Video Meetings for Work
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Damian Borowiec, Rachel Bergmann, Sharon Gillett, Danielle Bragg, Nancy Baym, Abigail Sellen
  
  CHI 2021 | May 2021
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project Project Project
- Spreadsheet Comprehension: Guesswork, Giving up and Going back to the Author
  
  Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon
  
  CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2021
  
  PDF DOI Project
- TweakIt: Supporting End-User Programmers Who Transmogrify Code
  
  Samuel Lau, Advait Sarkar, Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Titus Barik
  
  Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2021
  
  PDF DOI Project
- Understanding and Inferring Units in Spreadsheets
  
  Jack Williams, Carina Negreanu, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | July 2020
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Spreadsheet Use and Programming Experience: an Exploratory Survey
  
  Advait Sarkar, Judith W. Borghouts, Anusha Iyer, Sneha Khullar, Christian Canton, Felienne Hermans, Andy Gordon, Jack Williams
  
  38th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20 Extended Abstracts) | April 2020
  
  PDF DOI Publication Project
- Gridlets: Reusing Spreadsheet Grids
  
  Nima Joharizadeh, Advait Sarkar, Jack Williams, Andy Gordon
  
  38th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20 Extended Abstracts) | April 2020
  
  PDF DOI Publication Project
- Higher-Order Spreadsheets with Spilled Arrays
  
  Jack Williams, Nima Joharizadeh, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar
  
  European Symposium on Programming | April 2020
  
  PDF DOI Publication Project
- End-User Probabilistic Programming
  
  Judith Borghouts, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar, Neil Toronto
  
  International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems | September 2019
  
  Editor(s): David Parker and Verena Wolf
  
  PDF Project
- Comparative judgments are more consistent than binary classification for labelling word complexity
  
  Sian Gooding, Ekaterina Kochmar, Advait Sarkar, Alan F Blackwell
  
  Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XIII), co-located with ACL 2019 | August 2019
  
  PDF Publication
- Do We Need Natural Language? Exploring Restricted Language Interfaces for Complex Domains
  
  Jesse Mu, Advait Sarkar
  
  37th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19 Extended Abstracts) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI
- Perceptions of Chatbots in Therapy
  
  Samuel Bell, Clara Wood, Advait Sarkar
  
  37th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19 Extended Abstracts) | May 2019
  
  PDF DOI
- Assessing Public Perception of Self-Driving Cars: the Autonomous Vehicle Acceptance Model
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Ioannis Politis, Theocharis Amanatidis, Advait Sarkar
  
  24th International Conference on Intelligent User interfaces (IUI 2019) | March 2019
  
  PDF DOI Publication
- Evaluating Rule-based Programming and Reinforcement Learning for Personalising an Intelligent System
  
  Ruixue Liu, Advait Sarkar, Erin Solovey, Sebastian Tschiatschek
  
  2nd Workshop on Explainable Smart Systems (ExSS 2019), held in conjunction with ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2019) | March 2019
  
  PDF
- Calculation View: multiple-representation editing in spreadsheets
  
  Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon, Simon Peyton Jones, Neil Toronto
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | October 2018
  
  PDF Publication DOI Project
- How do people learn to use spreadsheets? (Work in progress)
  
  Advait Sarkar, Andy Gordon
  
  Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG) | September 2018
  
  PDF Project
- Setwise Comparison: Consistent, Scalable, Continuum Labels for Machine Learning
  
  Advait Sarkar, Cecily Morrison, FJ Dorn, R. Bedi, S. Steinheimer, J. Boisvert, J. Burggraaff, M. D'Souza, P. Kontschieder, S. Rota Bulo, L. Walsh, ChP. Kamm, Yordan Zaykov, Abigail Sellen, Siân Lindley
  
  Proceedings of CHI 2016 | January 2016
  
  Publication
- Interactive visual machine learning in spreadsheets
  
  Advait Sarkar, Mateja Jamnik, Alan F Blackwell, Martin Spott
  
  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) | September 2015
  
  DOI PDF Publication Project
- New Future of Work Report 2025
  
  Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Rebecca Janssen, Nancy Baym, Jake Hofman, Brent Hecht, Sean Rintel, Bahar Sarrafzadeh, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Jaime Teevan, Mohammed Alsobay, Liz Ankrah, Stephanie Beers, Megan Benzing, Mia Bruch, Zana Buçinca, Mar Carpanelli, Amelia Cole, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Justin Edwards, Alex Farach, Daniel G. Goldstein, Mary L. Gray, Javier Hernandez, Eric Horvitz, Nicole Immorlica, Kori Inkpen, Shamsi Iqbal, Manasa Jagadeesh, Siân Lindley, Brendan Lucier, Mercy Muchai, Ambrita Nand, Alexandra Olteanu, Jacki O'Neill, Max Peterschmidt, Christian Poelitz, Rabeeza, Nathalie Henry Riche, Advait Sarkar, Sunayana Sitaram, Amanda Snellinger, Jina Suh, John Tang, Lev Tankelevitch, Kiran Tomlinson, Anne Trapasso, Adam D. Troy, Gaurav Verma, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn, Jordana Young
  
  MSR-TR-2025-58 | December 2025
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
  
  Jenna Butler, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Rebecca Janssen, Abigail Sellen, Nicole Immorlica, Adam Troy, Advait Sarkar, Alex Farach, Alex Chouldechova, Alexandra Olteanu, Alexia Cambon, Arjun Radhakrishna, Asta Roseway, Ben Zorn, Brent Hecht, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dhruv Joshi, Ed Cutrell, Emre Kiciman, Gonzalo Ramos, Gustavo Soares, Hanna Wallach, Ian Drosos, Jack Williams (johnwilliams), Jacki O'Neill, Jake Hofman, Jaime Teevan, Javier Hernandez, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Jina Suh, John Tang, Justin Edwards, Kalika Bali, Kori Inkpen, Krishna Madhavan, Laylah Bulman, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Longqi Yang, Martez Mott, Millicent Ochieng, Mercy Muchai, Nancy Baym, Najeeb Abdulhamid, Nicolai Marquardt, Ken Hinckley, Michael Bentley, Dave Brown, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Samuel Maina, Shamsi Iqbal, Siân Lindley, Stephanie Nyairo, Su Lin Blodgett, Sumit Gulwani, Sunayana Sitaram, Vu Le
  
  MSR-TR-2024-56 | December 2024
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project Project
- Parallel Meeting Chat Guide for Moderators and Participants
  
  Sharon Gillett, Danielle Bragg, Nancy Baym, Rachel Bergmann, Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Abigail Sellen
  
  2021-02-FOW-SIM2 | February 2021
  
  Published by Microsoft Research
  
  Publication PDF Project Project Project
- Methodology and Participation for 2020 Diary Study of Microsoft Employees Experiences in Remote Meetings During COVID-19
  
  Sean Rintel, Priscilla Wong, Advait Sarkar, Abigail Sellen
  
  2020-10-FOW-SIM1 | October 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft Research
  
  PDF Project Project Project
- TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought
  
  Advait Sarkar, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project Project Project
- The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025
  
  Richard Banks, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Leon Reicherts, Pratik Ghosh
  
  December 2024
  
  Publication Project
- Excello: exploring spreadsheets for music composition
  
  Henry Mattinson, Advait Sarkar
  
  July 2020
  
  Author's Version
- Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI: A Synthesis of the CHI 2025 Tools for Thought Workshop
  
  Lev Tankelevitch, Elena L. Glassman, Jessica He, Aniket Kittur, Mina Lee, Srishti Palani, Advait Sarkar, Gonzalo Ramos, Yvonne Rogers, Hari Subramonyam
  
  ArXiv | August 2025
  
  Preprint Project
- Meeting (the) Pandemic: Videoconferencing Fatigue and Evolving Tensions of Sociality in Enterprise Video Meetings During COVID-19
  
  Rachel Bergman, Sean Rintel, Nancy Baym, Advait Sarkar, Damian Borowiec, Priscilla Wong, Abigail Sellen
  
  Computer-Supported Cooperative Work | November 2022
  
  PDF DOI Project Project Project Project Project
- Elastic Sheet-Defined Functions: Generalising Spreadsheet Functions to Variable-Size Input Arrays
  
  Matt McCutchen, Judith Borghouts, Andy Gordon, Simon Peyton Jones, Advait Sarkar
  
  Journal of Functional Programming | August 2020, Vol 30(e26)
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Setwise comparison: efficient fine-grained rating of movement videos using algorithmic support – a proof of concept study
  
  Abigail Sellen, Advait Sarkar, Cecily Morrison, Peter Kontschieder
  
  Disability and Rehabilitation | February 2019
  
  DOI
- AI Should Challenge, Not Obey
  
  Advait Sarkar
  
  October 2024
  
  CACM Cover Story
  
  Author's Version DOI Video Project Project Project
- Co-audit: tools to help humans double-check AI-generated content
  
  Andy Gordon, Carina Negreanu, José Cambronero, Rasika Mudumbai Chakravarthy, Ian Drosos, Hao Fang, Bhaskar Mitra, Hannah Richardson (nee Murfet), Advait Sarkar, Stephanie Simmons, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn
  
  October 2023
  
  Preprint Project Project
- Somewhere Around That Number: An Interview Study of How Spreadsheet Users Manage Uncertainty
  
  Judith Borghouts, Andy Gordon, Advait Sarkar, Kenton O'Hara, Neil Toronto
  
  May 2019
  
  Publication PDF Project

Advait Sarkar

Publications

Filter Babel: The Challenge of Synthetic Media to Authenticity and Common Ground in AI-Mediated Communication

From Binary Groundedness to Support Relations: Towards a Reader-Centred Taxonomy for Comprehension of AI Output

Generative Design and Vibe Coding: Rethinking The Design-Development Divide for UI Prototyping

Tools for Thought: Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI — From Vision to Implementation

New Future of Work Report 2025

“How Do You Even Know That Stuff?”: Barriers to Expertise Sharing Among Spreadsheet Users

TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought

Vibe coding: programming through conversation with artificial intelligence

Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI: A Synthesis of the CHI 2025 Tools for Thought Workshop

Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks

Evaluating the Evaluator: Measuring LLMs’ Adherence to Task Evaluation Instructions

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers

Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI

The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025

Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024

AI Should Challenge, Not Obey

Improving Steering and Verification in AI-Assisted Data Analysis with Interactive Task Decomposition

Predictability of identifier naming with Copilot: A case study for mixed-initiative programming tools

Diversity in Study Participants and a Critique of the “Representative Sample” in Human-Computer Interaction Research

Intention Is All You Need

The Paradox of Spreadsheet Self-Efficacy: Social Incentives for Informal Knowledge Sharing in End-User Programming

“It’s like a rubber duck that talks back”: Understanding Generative AI-Assisted Data Analysis Workflows through a Participatory Prompting Study

Solving Data-centric Tasks using Large Language Models

Large Language Models Cannot Explain Themselves

The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI

Will Code Remain a Relevant User Interface for End-User Programming with Generative AI Models?

Co-audit: tools to help humans double-check AI-generated content

ColDeco: An End User Spreadsheet Inspection Tool for AI-Generated Code

Participatory prompting: a user-centric research method for eliciting AI assistance opportunities in knowledge workflows

Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots

Is a Return To Office a Return To Creativity? Requiring Fixed Time In Office To Enable Brainstorms and Watercooler Talk May Not Foster Research Creativity

“What It Wants Me To Say”: Bridging the Abstraction Gap Between End-User Programmers and Code-Generating Large Language Models

Should Computers Be Easy To Use? Questioning the Doctrine of Simplicity in User Interface Design

Meeting (the) Pandemic: Videoconferencing Fatigue and Evolving Tensions of Sociality in Enterprise Video Meetings During COVID-19

End-user encounters with lambda abstraction in spreadsheets: Apollo’s bow or Achilles’ heel?

What is it like to program with artificial intelligence?

Making Space for Social Time: Supporting Conversational Transitions Before, During, and After Video Meetings

“It’s Freedom to Put Things Where My Mind Wants”: Understanding and Improving the User Experience of Structuring Data in Spreadsheets

Is explainable AI a race against model complexity?

Spreadsheet Comprehension: Guesswork, Giving up and Going back to the Author

The Promise and Peril of Parallel Chat in Video Meetings for Work

TweakIt: Supporting End-User Programmers Who Transmogrify Code

Parallel Meeting Chat Guide for Moderators and Participants

Methodology and Participation for 2020 Diary Study of Microsoft Employees Experiences in Remote Meetings During COVID-19

Elastic Sheet-Defined Functions: Generalising Spreadsheet Functions to Variable-Size Input Arrays

Understanding and Inferring Units in Spreadsheets

Excello: exploring spreadsheets for music composition

Gridlets: Reusing Spreadsheet Grids

Higher-Order Spreadsheets with Spilled Arrays

Spreadsheet Use and Programming Experience: an Exploratory Survey

End-User Probabilistic Programming

Comparative judgments are more consistent than binary classification for labelling word complexity

Do We Need Natural Language? Exploring Restricted Language Interfaces for Complex Domains

Perceptions of Chatbots in Therapy

Somewhere Around That Number: An Interview Study of How Spreadsheet Users Manage Uncertainty

Assessing Public Perception of Self-Driving Cars: the Autonomous Vehicle Acceptance Model

Evaluating Rule-based Programming and Reinforcement Learning for Personalising an Intelligent System

Setwise comparison: efficient fine-grained rating of movement videos using algorithmic support – a proof of concept study

Calculation View: multiple-representation editing in spreadsheets

How do people learn to use spreadsheets? (Work in progress)

Setwise Comparison: Consistent, Scalable, Continuum Labels for Machine Learning

Interactive visual machine learning in spreadsheets

Filter Babel: The Challenge of Synthetic Media to Authenticity and Common Ground in AI-Mediated Communication

From Binary Groundedness to Support Relations: Towards a Reader-Centred Taxonomy for Comprehension of AI Output

Generative Design and Vibe Coding: Rethinking The Design-Development Divide for UI Prototyping

Tools for Thought: Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI — From Vision to Implementation

New Future of Work Report 2025

“How Do You Even Know That Stuff?”: Barriers to Expertise Sharing Among Spreadsheet Users

Vibe coding: programming through conversation with artificial intelligence

TEDAI 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Thought

Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI: A Synthesis of the CHI 2025 Tools for Thought Workshop

Dynamic Prompt Middleware: Contextual Prompt Refinement Controls for Comprehension Tasks

Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers

The USC Annenberg Relevance Report 2025

Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024

Predictability of identifier naming with Copilot: A case study for mixed-initiative programming tools

Improving Steering and Verification in AI-Assisted Data Analysis with Interactive Task Decomposition