2023/10/27 by Aveni, Timothy J., Fox, Armando, Hartmann, Björn · 1 citation
#FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2310.17826
Predictive suggestion systems offer contextually-relevant text entry completions. Existing approaches, like autofill, often excel in narrowly-defined domains but fail to generalize to arbitrary workflows. We introduce a conceptual framework to analyze the compound demands of a particular suggestion context, yielding unique opportunities for large language models (LLMs) to infer suggestions for a wide range of domain-agnostic form-filling tasks that were out of reach with prior approaches. We explore these opportunities in OmniFill, a prototype that collects multi-faceted context including browsing and text entry activity to construct an LLM prompt that offers suggestions in situ for arbitrary structured text entry interfaces. Through a user study with 18 participants, we found that OmniFill offered valuable suggestions and we identified four themes that characterize users' behavior and attitudes: an "opportunistic scrapbooking" approach; a trust placed in the system; value in partial success; and a need for visibility into prompt context.