Human and AI discourse differ functionally: students lead invitations, connection, and regulation moves, while AI leads reasoning, coordination, and agreement¶

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q2 i? Students' utterances concentrated in invitation, connection, and socially-shared-regulation categories, whereas AI agents showed significantly higher proportions of other invitation, reasoning, simple co-ordination, reasoned co-ordination, and agreement codes. → Zhanxin Hao 2026

Evidence¶

Zhanxin Hao 2026¶

Zhanxin Hao, Xiaobo Liu, Jiaxin Fan, Yun Long, Jifan Yu, Wenli Chen, Yu Zhang. (2026). Unpacking Interaction Profiles and Strategies in Human-AI Collaborative Problem Solving: A Cognitive Distribution and Regulation Perspective. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21288 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2603.21288

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Paired-sample t-tests comparing proportions of each SEDA-adapted code between human and AI utterances across 2831 dialogue entries (34.8% human). The article reports AI "exhibited significantly higher proportions" on OI, RE, SC, RC, and A with the printed t and p values; students were higher on invitation, connection, and SSR categories.

"In contrast, AI agents exhibited significantly higher proportions in codes such as other invitation (OI) (t = -18.46, p < .001), reasoning (RE) (t = -4.37, p < .001), simple co-ordination (SC) (t = -14.01, p < .001), reasoned co-ordination (RC) (t = -2.59, p = .010), and agreement (A) (t = -4.54, p < .001)"

Discussion¶

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