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Mind Perception Influences Perceived AI Companionability
Jaime Banks, Zhixin Li
Humans increasingly keep company with AI companions, yet whether mind perception (MP) precedes machine companionship remains untested. In a field-sampled experiment, participants r…
Ghosting the Machine: Stop Calling Human-Agent Relations Parasocial
Jaime Banks
In discussions of human relations with conversational agents (CAs; e.g., voice assistants, AI companions, some social robots), they are increasingly referred to as parasocial. This…
Lexical Indicators of Mind Perception in Human-AI Companionship
Jaime Banks, Jianghui Li
Mind perception (MP) is a psychological phenomenon in which humans automatically infer that another entity has a mind and/or mental capacities, usually understood in two dimensions…
DiSCoKit: An Open-Source Toolkit for Deploying Live LLM Experiences in Survey Research
Jaime Banks, Jon Stromer-Galley, Samiksha Singh +1
Advancing social-scientific research of human-AI interaction dynamics and outcomes often requires researchers to deliver experiences with live large-language models (LLMs) to parti…
Perceptions of AI Bad Behavior: Variations on Discordant Non-Performance
Jaime Banks
Popular discourses are thick with narratives of generative AI's problematic functions and outcomes, yet there is little understanding of how non-experts consider AI activities to c…
Measuring Machine Companionship: Scale Development and Validation for AI Companions
Jaime Banks
The mainstreaming of companionable machines--customizable artificial agents designed to participate in ongoing, idiosyncratic, socioemotional relationships--is met with relative th…
Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement of Machine Companionship: A Scoping Review
Jaime Banks, Zhixin Li
The notion of machine companions has long been embedded in social-technological imaginaries. Recent advances in AI have moved those media musings into believable sociality manifest…
On the Same Page: Dimensions of Perceived Shared Understanding in Human-AI Interaction
Qingyu Liang, Jaime Banks
Shared understanding plays a key role in the effective communication in and performance of human-human interactions. With the increasingly common integration of AI into human conte…