Sidekick: Designing Communication for Effective Multitasking with Computer Use Agents
4.20T1 sourcearXiv cs.HC
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Published by arXiv cs.HC (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17527.
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SummaryPresents Sidekick, a prototype that delivers multimodal feedback for Computer Use Agents across three interaction stages: ambient cues during background execution, summaries on resumption, and visualized reasoning in the foreground. A 30-participant study showed improved multitasking performance, traceability, and progress awareness over text-only baselines.
Why it mattersEmpirical 30-participant study on concrete design patterns for maintaining awareness of autonomous GUI agents — directly applicable to human-agent collaboration design.
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