Most human-agent interaction today is text-based. The authors of a new arXiv paper argue that natural language can impose cognitive overload, ambiguity, information chaos, and slow input for complex tasks. They propose a "data-aware generative UI harness" that creates ephemeral UIs to present structured information.
The idea is to move beyond the chat box: instead of forcing users to express everything in words, the system generates temporary interfaces that organise data and support active interaction. This could reduce ambiguity and speed up complex workflows.
The abstract is brief and does not include experimental results, so the paper's contribution is primarily a design direction. Still, it highlights a growing concern that text-only interaction is a bottleneck for human-agent collaboration.