Permanently Under ConstructionContemporary AI tools for knowledge work encourage users to query and consume rather than construct and connect, risking a loss of the human agency that makes such work intellectually valuable.
doi
10.1145/3800935.3830837
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979-8-4007-2564-7
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Permanently Under Construction
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800935.3830837
authors
David E. Millard
doi_url
https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830837
license
CC BY 4.0
summary
Contemporary AI tools for knowledge work encourage users to query and consume rather than construct and connect, risking a loss of the human agency that makes such work intellectually valuable.
keywords
Hypertext; Zettelkasten; Human-AI Interaction; Personal Knowledge Management; Mixed-Initiative Interfaces
published
2026-09-14
conference
HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3800935.3830837
ccs_concepts
CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Hypertext / hypermedia ; Empirical studies in HCI; HCI theory, concepts and models;
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David E. Millard
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3800935
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2026-09-14
acm_reference_format
ACM Reference Format: David E. Millard. 2026. Permanently Under Construction: Hypertextual Friction in an AI-Augmented Zettelkasten. In 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), September 14--18, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA 11 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830837