Who Thinks First? Designing Productive Friction with Engage-to-Unlock GenAI
Generative AI can support writing, but frictionless access may cause cognitive offloading before users develop their own ideas. We introduce Engage-to-Unlock, a productive-friction mechanism that unlocks generative capabilities after users meaningfully engage with the task. In a controlled experiment (N = 398), partici...
Xiao-Tian Su, Laura Rimell, Jiazheng Li et al.
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