7 papers
When AI Says "I have been in similar situations": Synthetic Lived Experience in Peer-Like Caregiver Support
Drishti Goel, Agam Goyal, Veda Duddu +6
Caregivers often turn to online communities for informational and emotional support. In these spaces, peer supporters frequently draw on personal narratives to respond to emotional…
Inform, Coach, Relate, Listen: Auditing LLM Caregiving Support Roles
Drishti Goel, Agam Goyal, Veda Duddu +8
Language models are increasingly being deployed for conversational support in informal caregiving contexts, where interactions often extend beyond information-seeking: caregivers s…
AI-Mediated Negotiation: Design Reflections and Lessons
Veda Duddu, Jash Rajesh Parekh, Andy Mao +4
Conversational AI promises a new kind of preparation for high-stakes workplace negotiations -- personalized, interactive, and capable of simulating realistic resistance. That promi…
Not My Truce: Personality Differences in AI-Mediated Workplace Negotiation
Veda Duddu, Jash Rajesh Parekh, Andy Mao +4
AI-driven conversational coaching is increasingly used to support workplace negotiation, yet prior work assumes uniform effectiveness across users. We challenge this assumption by…
Do We Know What They Know We Know? Calibrating Student Trust in AI and Human Responses Through Mutual Theory of Mind
Olivia Pal, Veda Duddu, Agam Goyal +2
Trust and reliance are often treated as coupled constructs in human-AI interaction research, with the assumption that calibrating trust will lead to appropriate reliance. We challe…
The Social Gaze of LLMs: A Literature Review of Multimodal Approaches to Human Behavior Understanding
Zihan Liu, Parisa Rabbani, Veda Duddu +3
LLM-powered multimodal systems are increasingly used to interpret human behavior, yet how researchers apply the models' 'social competence' remains poorly understood. This paper pr…