Sean Rintel
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Collaboration Intelligence and Future of Work @ Microsoft Research | Personal opinions at low low prices | he/him
Brisbane, Queensland
Joined March 2009
Magentic Marketplace is an open-source simulation environment for studying how AI agents interact and transact in digital markets. Its modular design lets researchers experiment with different market setups, agent behaviors, and system dynamics at scale. Explore it now on Azure
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If you care about the future of work with AI, take 15 minutes to be inspired by this thoughtful, amusing, & hopeful video. In his TEDAI Vienna talk, Advait Sarkar from our #ToolsForThought team pushes back against AI that thinks for us, and shows how AI can help us think better.
Microsoft senior researcher, Advait Sarkar, recently presented at @TEDAIVienna, where he spoke about AI’s role in elevating human thought. His talk explored how AI transforms knowledge work, creativity, and human thought – and how, if we design AI to make us think, and not think
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📢 AI is changing the way we create, learn, & reason. But is it augmenting human cognition, or dulling it? Please submit your ideas to our #HCI Special Issue: Generative AI in Tools for Thought. Abstract Deadline: Oct 10, 2025 → https://t.co/Ks8u2jk8dA
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At #CHI2025, we ran a workshop on 🧠Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with #GenerativeAI What are the #HCI research+design opps in this space? 👉Read our new synthesis of the workshop:
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Generative AI (GenAI) radically expands the scope and capability of automation for work, education, and everyday tasks, a transformation posing both risks and opportunities for human cognition....
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Meetings often drift off-track. Can AI help us reflect in the moment and realign? Our #CHI2025 paper explores how AI-assisted interventions influence goal reflection during workplace meetings. w/@lev_tank @rishivanukuru @PayodPanda @seanrintel @ava___scott
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Join us at CHI 2025 to explore how AI systems can be used as Tools for Thought as we reimage AI’s role in human thinking. Learn about new research, prototypes, and a workshop on designing AI that supports critical thinking, decision-making, and creativity: https://t.co/it0VnRd8e0
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We’re #hiring at @MSFTResearchCam! The Tools for Thought project seeks an HCI researcher with dev and design skills for a 2-year #postdoc on protecting and augmenting human cognition with #AI. Apply at https://t.co/gQHNvaml5E Contact me for questions or find us at #CHI2025
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Our #CHI2025 Tools for Thought #workshop is open for sign-up! Help us explore the potential that AI has for critical thinking, metacognition, decision-making, diversity of creativity, and more.
📢CHI'25 workshop: Tools for Thought: Research and Design for Understanding, Protecting, and Augmenting Human Cognition with Generative AI 🌐 https://t.co/bELq9J4pYx 🗓️Submission deadline: Feb 13, 2025 AoE
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Our short piece in the USC Annenberg 2025 Relevance Report proposes that the next #ResponsibleAI challenge is to develop #ToolsForThought - AI systems that protect and augment human judgement. Look out for our upcoming #chi2025 papers and workshop at
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The Tools for Thought team aims to help researchers and developers imagine how AI might help people to think better.
Microsoft researchers contributed to USC Annenberg’s 2025 Relevance Report: AI Activated. Their essay, "AI as a Tool for Thought," explores how genAI can enhance human cognition beyond content creation. Read this and other essays from leading experts:
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My team’s work on goal-driven adaptive meeting interfaces, lead by Payod Panda and our great intern Gun Woo (Warren) Park shows great promise for how GenAI can customize UI to make meetings more purposeful. They’ll be presenting it at #DIS2024 this coming week!
In this issue: RENC makes 5G vRAN servers more energy efficient; CoExplorer uses AI to keep video meetings on track; Automatic bug detection in LLM-powered text-based games; MAIRA-2: Grounded radiology report generation. https://t.co/jGTnYt2IaD
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Manny hugely influenced my career. He was a co-author on the seminal “A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation”. He also steered me to Ruhleder & Jordan’s delay-generated trouble in videoconferencing paper, which was key to my PhD. Vale.
We are very sad to share this note from John Heritage on the death of Emanuel Schegloff: “It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that Manny Schegloff has died. He was an intellectual giant and a dear colleague who leaves an extraordinary legacy of scholarship.”
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Hey #CHI2024, now that you’re fuelled up from the break, catch @ava___scott’s paper “Mental Models of Meeting Goals: Supporting Intentionality in Meeting Technologies” at 11:15am in Room 324! Great work from my team at @MSFTResearchCam!
Have you ever wondered “Why are we here!!?” during a meeting? I’ll be talking about purposeless meetings, attention hogging, fears of accountability, and much more today at 11.15am, room 324! Hoping for collective carthasis at #CHI2024 🤞
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Catch @lev_tank’s Best Paper “The Metacognitive Demands of Generative AI” at 2pm in Room 320! One of two great full #CHI2024 papers from my team at @MSFTResearchCam today.
Thrilled to see our #CHI2024 paper on the 🧠Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI receive a Best Paper award!🥳 https://t.co/KX4wB4S7pC We bring together psych/cog sci research on metacognition and GenAI user studies to examine usability in GenAI systems...🧵
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Have you ever wondered “Why are we here!!?” during a meeting? I’ll be talking about purposeless meetings, attention hogging, fears of accountability, and much more today at 11.15am, room 324! Hoping for collective carthasis at #CHI2024 🤞
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Just in time for #CHI2024, #Microsoft has just announced new research funding for exploring how AI will shape the future of work! Could your CHI paper be the seed for an unrestricted grant of up to USD$50k? Proposals are due June 3rd. https://t.co/tQcH7FHGjV
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Language models are fundamentally changing how work gets done, and high-quality academic research is needed to ensure that the new future of work that they will help create is bright. Microsoft is...
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Thrilled to see our #CHI2024 paper on the 🧠Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI receive a Best Paper award!🥳 https://t.co/KX4wB4S7pC We bring together psych/cog sci research on metacognition and GenAI user studies to examine usability in GenAI systems...🧵
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And, taking a broader view, how can the psychological approach to metacognition help us understand the links between intentionality and generative AI? https://t.co/ihnTPOGZfX
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Generative AI (GenAI) systems offer unprecedented opportunities for transforming professional and personal work, yet present challenges around prompting, evaluating and relying on outputs, and...
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Can 3D video help meeting participants convey and detect the communicative intentions of others? https://t.co/eMrfTHOKOJ
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Work video meetings in the traditional grid interface have inclusion, effectiveness, and fatigue problems, due in part to the difficulty of directing or communicating attention. Virtual 3D meeting...
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