Chatbots as social companions: How people perceive consciousness, human likeness, and social health benefits in machines

RE Guingrich, MSA Graziano - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.10599, 2023 - arxiv.org
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more widespread, one question that arises is how
human-AI interaction might impact human-human interaction. Chatbots, for example, are …

Understanding how technology can support social-emotional learning of children: a dyadic trauma-informed participatory design with proxies

N Ahmadpour, L Loke, C Gray, Y Cao… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Trauma-informed design is an important yet challenging area due to required expertise for
careful engagement with the vulnerable and traumatized person, particularly with children …

“After she fell asleep, it went to my next podcast, which was about a serial killer”: Unveiling Needs and Expectations Regarding Parental Control within Digital …

P Dumaru, MN Al-Ameen - … Publication of the 2023 Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Voice-based digital assistants (for brevity, we term them as 'digital assistants' in this paper,
unless otherwise specified) are getting increasingly popular in the household to automate …

AniBalloons: Animated chat balloons as affective augmentation for social messaging and chatbot interaction

P An, C Zhang, H Gao, Z Zhou, Y Xiao… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Despite being prominent and ubiquitous, message-based communication is limited in
nonverbally conveying emotions. Besides emoticons or stickers, messaging users continue …

Self-Talk with Superhero Zip: Supporting Children's Socioemotional Learning with Conversational Agents

Y Fu, M Zhang, LK Nguyen, Y Lin, R Michelson… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Socioemotional competencies are fundamental for children's growth and success, and prior
work shows that in some instances, technology can support children in acquiring these …

The Personality Dimensions GPT-3 Expresses During Human-Chatbot Interactions

N Kovačević, C Holz, M Gross, R Wampfler - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Large language models such as GPT-3 and ChatGPT can mimic human-to-human
conversation with unprecedented fidelity, which enables many applications such as …

Ascribing consciousness to artificial intelligence: human-AI interaction and its carry-over effects on human-human interaction

RE Guingrich, MSA Graziano - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) can be considered conscious and
therefore should be evaluated through a moral lens has surfaced in recent years. In this …

Chatbots With Attitude: Enhancing Chatbot Interactions Through Dynamic Personality Infusion

N Kovacevic, T Boschung, C Holz, M Gross… - Proceedings of the 6th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Equipping chatbots with personality has the potential of transforming user interactions from
mere transactions to engaging conversations, enhancing user satisfaction and experience …

[PDF][PDF] Chatbots With Attitude: Enhancing Chatbot Interactions Through Dynamic Personality Infusion

N Kovačević, T Boschung, C Holz, M Gross… - 2024 - cgl.ethz.ch
Equipping chatbots with personality has the potential of transforming user interactions from
mere transactions to engaging conversations, enhancing user satisfaction and experience …

[PDF][PDF] Dozzz: Exploring the Feasibility of a Voice-Based Sleep Diary for Children

S Chen, P Markopoulos, J Hu - researchgate.net
Sleep disorders affect many children and adolescents, with a prevalence rate up to
50%(Danielle Pacheco (2023)). They can be common and chronic, and they extend beyond …