4 papers
Tinker Tales: A Tangible Dialogue System for Child-AI Co-Creative Storytelling
Nayoung Choi, Jiseung Hong, Peace Cyebukayire +2
Conversational AI agents are increasingly explored as creative partners, yet how conversation design shapes child-AI dialogue in co-creative settings remains underexplored. We pres…
Why Are We Lonely? Leveraging LLMs to Measure and Understand Loneliness in Caregivers and Non-caregivers
Michelle Damin Kim, Ellie S. Paek, Yufen Lin +3
This paper presents an LLM-driven approach for constructing diverse social media datasets to measure and compare loneliness in the caregiver and non-caregiver populations. We intro…
Finding A Voice: Exploring the Potential of African American Dialect and Voice Generation for Chatbots
Sarah E. Finch, Ellie S. Paek, Ikseon Choi +1
As chatbots become integral to daily life, personalizing systems is key for fostering trust, engagement, and inclusivity. This study examines how linguistic similarity affects chat…
Leveraging Explicit Reasoning for Inference Integration in Commonsense-Augmented Dialogue Models
Sarah E. Finch, Jinho D. Choi
Open-domain dialogue systems need to grasp social commonsense to understand and respond effectively to human users. Commonsense-augmented dialogue models have been proposed that ai…