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Major revision at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2026

Precise or Broad?The Reward-Learning Frontier in Algorithmic Advice Design

Philippe Blaettchen, Wichinpong Park Sinchaisri

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In brief

Compares two ways of turning an optimal policy into advice in EV-charging route experiments: an exact action versus a broader rule of thumb. Exact advice performs best while it is visible; broader advice can leave people better able to act alone in similar settings once advice is removed.

Details

Status
Major revision at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Year
2026
Presented at
CHI 2025 Workshop on Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning (poster), Yokohama, Apr 26, 2025
EC 2025 Workshop on Human-AI Collaboration
2026 talks at INSEAD, the University of Michigan, POMS, the Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference, the INFORMS Revenue Management & Pricing Conference and YinzOR at Carnegie Mellon

Cite

Blaettchen, P., & Sinchaisri, W. P. (2026). Precise or Broad? The Reward-Learning Frontier in Algorithmic Advice Design.

@unpublished{blaettchen2026precise,
  title  = {Precise or Broad? The Reward-Learning Frontier in Algorithmic Advice Design},
  author = {Blaettchen, Philippe and Sinchaisri, Wichinpong Park},
  year   = {2026}
}

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