Publications by Seyed Parsa Neshaei

User-centric Reflective Writing Assistance: Leveraging RAG for Enhanced Personalized Support

Paola Mejia Domenzain, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober

Reflective writing, a valuable educational practice, helps learners analyze their thoughts and experiences. However, learners often struggle to translate their experiences and thoughts into written form. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) ...

ACM2025

Leveraging Learner Errors in Digital Argumentation Learning: How ALure Helps Students Learn from their Mistakes and Write Better Arguments

Seyed Parsa Neshaei

Providing argumentation feedback is considered helpful for students preparing to work in collaborative environments, helping them with writing higher-quality argumentative texts. Domain-independent natural language processing (NLP) methods, such as generat ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2025

MindMate: Exploring the Effect of Conversational Agents on Reflective Writing

Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober

Reflective writing is known to be effective in improving students’ learning process. However, learners often encounter difficulties when reflecting, struggling to formulate their thoughts constructively. While conversational agents have been shown to be be ...

ACM2025

Metacognition meets AI: Empowering reflective writing with large language models

Paola Mejia Domenzain, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober

Reflective writing is known as a useful method in learning sciences to improve the metacognitive skills of students. However, students struggle to structure their reflections properly, limiting the possible learning gains. Previous works in educational tec ...

Wiley2025

SpatiaLearn: Exploring XR Learning Environments for Reflective Writing

Seyed Parsa Neshaei

Reflective writing promotes deeper learning by enhancing metacognitive awareness and critical thinking, but learners often struggle with structuring their reflections and maintaining focus. Generative AI and advances in spatial computing offer promising so ...

ACM2025

Enhancing Procedural Writing Through Personalized Example Retrieval: A Case Study on Cooking Recipes

Antoine Bosselut, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Luca Mouchel, Jibril Albachir Frej, Tatjana Nazaretsky, Thiemo Wambsganss

Writing high-quality procedural texts is a challenging task for many learners. While example-based learning has shown promise as a feedback approach, a limitation arises when all learners receive the same content without considering their individual input ...

2024

Intelligent Support Engages Writers Through Relevant Cognitive Processes

Seyed Parsa Neshaei

Student peer review writing is prevalent and important in education for fostering critical thinking and learning motivation. However, it often entails challenges such as high effort and writer's block. Leaving students unsupported may thus diminish the eff ...

Association for Computing Machinery2024

LegalWriter: An Intelligent Writing Support System for Structured and Persuasive Legal Case Writing for Novice Law Students

Seyed Parsa Neshaei

Novice students in law courses or students who encounter legal education face the challenge of acquiring specialized and highly concept-oriented knowledge. Structured and persuasive writing combined with the necessary domain knowledge is challenging for ma ...

Association for Computing Machinery2024

Enhancing Peer Review with AI-Powered Suggestion Generation Assistance: Investigating the Design Dynamics

Seyed Parsa Neshaei

While writing peer reviews resembles an important task in science, education, and large organizations, providing fruitful suggestions to peers is not a straightforward task, as different user interaction designs of text suggestion interfaces can have diver ...

Association for Computing Machinery2024

Visualizing Self-Regulated Learner Profiles in Dashboards: Design Insights from Teachers

Paola Mejia Domenzain, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Thiemo Wambsganss

Flipped Classrooms (FC) are a promising teaching strategy, where students engage with the learning material before attending face-to-face sessions. While pre-class activities are critical for course success, many students struggle to engage effectively in ...

Springer Nature2023