Let’s Think Associate

Leon Reicherts is currently doing a PhD at University College London. He has a BA in Information Systems and an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction. Besides his studies Leon has been consulting companies on how they can improve the experience of their services and products to empower users to achieve their goals.

In his research Leon focuses on to design tools that support people’s thinking when they engage in analytical, sense-making, and decision-making tasks. He is particularly interested in achieving this by scaffolding people's thought processes through prompts that are tailored to the given task [CUI 2021 position paper]. For example, prompts that get the user to reflect on their decision-making performance and strategies [CUI 2022 paper]; or prompts that get a user to explore a dataset from different perspectives [TOCHI 2022 paper]. Recently, he has also investigated how such prompting by the system can scaffold people's self-reflection processes [CHI 2023 paper]. All the prototypes he designed – with collaborators from academia and industry – include some form of conversational user interface (CUI). Leon’s aim is to design CUIs in a way that they tie into the "inner dialogues" we engage in when analysing or making sense of something, and when making decisions.

Together with the Let’s Think team Leon explores how such tools that probe our thinking can help us think better and more brilliantly.