Influence of OnGoal on goal creation volume and diversity

Determine whether OnGoal encourages users to create more goals or more diverse goals compared to baseline chat interfaces, and characterize resulting changes in goal-setting behavior during multi-turn dialogue.

Background

The study did not assess whether OnGoal affects how many goals users set or the diversity of those goals, despite features that might prompt dynamic goal management.

Understanding this influence would inform the design of goal inference, visualization, and user controls to support open-ended, evolving objectives.

References

Lastly, we did not examine whether our system encourages users to create more or more diverse goals.

— OnGoal: Tracking and Visualizing Conversational Goals in Multi-Turn Dialogue with Large Language Models  (2508.21061 - Coscia et al., 28 Aug 2025) in Section 7.2 Limitations and Future Work

Because the robot cannot observe this until it starts acting, these methods face a goal distribution that shifts as the user adapts, a problem no prior work addresses.

— Robots That Take Initiative: A Framework for Building and Evaluating Proactive Robots  (2609.28910 - Patel et al., 24 Sep 2026) in Appendix, Section Formalism: Extended Discussion, subsection "Prior Work Across the Sub-Problems," paragraph "A3: Goal anticipation"