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Stereotypically Yours: Portrayal and Perception of Race-Coded AI Companions
Wang Claire, Jiayue Melissa Shi, Agam Goyal +4
AI companions can purportedly adopt racial personas, raising questions about how they represent identity and how users interpret these portrayals. We combined an algorithmic audit…
Disrupted Companionship: A Risk Assessment Framework and Cross-Platform Quantitative Analysis of Psychosocial Responses to AI Companion Disruptions
Chau Do, Yunhao Yuan, Koustuv Saha +2
AI companions can provide meaningful relationships, yet these relationships remain vulnerable to platform-initiated changes. We study AI companion disruptions: platform changes tha…
When AI Companions Disappear: Relational Continuity and Collective Contestation during China's National AI Regulatory Transition
Yunhao Yuan, Kejia Zhang, Yuqi Niu +3
AI model updates and service withdrawals can disrupt relationships with AI companions, but research has largely examined individual platform events. Less is known about users' resp…
Push and Pushback in Contesting AI: Demands for and Resistance to Accountability
Yulu Pi, Lucas Lichner, Jae Woo Lee +3
As AI becomes increasingly embedded in daily life, it has been shown to fail critically, cause harm, and spark public controversy, prompting affected communities, workers, and publ…
The Fragility of AI Companionship: Ontological, Structural, and Normative Uncertainty in Human-AI Relationships
Renwen Zhang, Lezi Xie
As generative AI chatbots become more personalized and emotionally responsive, they increasingly serve as companions, friends, and romantic partners. Yet these relationships are ac…
Designing Computational Tools for Exploring Causal Relationships in Qualitative Data
Han Meng, Qiuyuan Lyu, Peinuan Qin +4
Exploring causal relationships for qualitative data analysis in HCI and social science research enables the understanding of user needs and theory building. However, current comput…