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User-centric Reflective Writing Assistance: Leveraging RAG for Enhanced Personalized Support

Neshaei, Seyed Parsa  
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Tashkovska, Matea  
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Mejia-Domenzain, Paola  
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April 25, 2025
CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI EA 25: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Reflective writing, a valuable educational practice, helps learners analyze their thoughts and experiences. However, learners often struggle to translate their experiences and thoughts into written form. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their potential for writing assistance and learning support, but they lack personalization, as their responses are not typically grounded in the personal experiences and prior knowledge states of individual learners. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) offers the potential to enable LLMs to incorporate learners’ past data to provide personalized support. Despite potential, RAG has yet to be fully evaluated for reflective writing. In this late-breaking work, we introduce Memoire, a reflective writing assistant using RAG to provide learners with personalized suggestions. We evaluate the effectiveness of our tool on 100 students in a classroom study, comparing three types of suggestions identified in prior research. Our study provides early insights into the potential of RAG-based methods to support reflective writing among students.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3706599.3719899
Author(s)
Neshaei, Seyed Parsa  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Tashkovska, Matea  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Mejia-Domenzain, Paola  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Wambsganss, Thiemo

Institute for Digital Technology Management, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland

Käser, Tanja  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025-04-25

Publisher

ACM

Publisher place

New York, NY, USA

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CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ISBN of the book

979-8-4007-1395-8

Article Number

562

Start page

1

End page

8

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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ML4ED  
AVP-E-LEARN  
Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
CHI EA 25: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

CHI EA '25

Yokohama Japan

2025-04-26 - 2025-05-01

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May 5, 2025
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