This study presents WriteFlow, an AI voice-based writing assistant designed to support reflective academic writing through goal-oriented interaction. Academic writing involves iterative reflection and evolving goal regulation, yet prior research and a formative study with 17 participants show that writers often struggle to articulate and manage changing goals. While commonly used AI writing tools emphasize efficiency, they offer limited support for metacognition and writer agency. WriteFlow frames AI interaction as a dialogic space for ongoing goal articulation, monitoring, and negotiation grounded in writers' intentions. Findings from a Wizard-of-Oz study with 12 expert users show that WriteFlow scaffolds metacognitive regulation and reflection-in-action by supporting iterative goal refinement, maintaining goal-text alignment during drafting, and prompting evaluation of goal fulfillment. We discuss design implications for AI writing systems that prioritize reflective dialogue, flexible goal structures, and multi-perspective feedback to support intentional and agentic writing.
翻译:本研究提出了WriteFlow——一款基于AI的语音写作助手,旨在通过目标导向型交互支持反思性学术写作。学术写作涉及迭代反思与演化性目标调控,但先前研究及一项包含17名参与者的形成性研究表明,写作者常难以明确表述并管理动态变化的目标。尽管当前常见的AI写作工具注重效率,但在元认知与写作者自主性方面的支持有限。WriteFlow将AI交互构建为对话空间,支持基于写作者意图持续进行的目标阐述、监控与协商。一项针对12位专业用户的"巫师"实验结果表明,WriteFlow通过支持迭代式目标细化、在起草过程中维持目标与文本的对齐,以及促进对目标实现情况的评估,有效搭建了元认知调控与行动中反思的支架。我们讨论了AI写作系统的设计启示,强调以反思性对话、灵活目标结构及多视角反馈为核心,支持更具意图性与自主性的写作。