Prompting to Support Reflection: A Workplace Study

Reflection is an activity which needs facilitation in order to motivate users to engage in it regularly. In a study we analyzed how prompts can support reflection in a workplace setting. Results show that prompts might be beneficial to stimulate users to write new topics. Our results show that if user generate own prompts, user reply more often in comparison to our generic prompts.

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