3 papers
cs.AI2026
Evaluating Developmental Cognition Capabilities of LLMs
Xiao Xiao, Hayoun Noh, Mar Gonzalez-Franco
Conversational AI is increasingly personalized around users' preferences, histories, goals, and knowledge, but much less around how users interpret and take up model outputs to con…
cs.HC2026
Digital Companionship: Overlapping Uses of AI Companions and AI Assistants
Aikaterina Manoli, Janet V. T. Pauketat, Ali Ladak +3
Large language models are increasingly used for both task-based assistance and social companionship, yet research has typically focused on one or the other. Drawing on a survey (N…
cs.HC2025
How AI Companionship Develops: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study
Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Fiona Li, Jacy Reese Anthis +1
The quickly growing popularity of AI companions poses risks to mental health, personal wellbeing, and social relationships. Past work has identified many individual factors that ca…