5 papers
When Should an AI Act? A Human-Centered Model of Scene, Context, and Behavior for Agentic AI Design
Soyoung Jung, Daehoo Yoon, Sung Gyu Koh +3
Agentic AI increasingly intervenes proactively by inferring users' situations from contextual data yet often fails for lack of principled judgment about when, why, and whether to a…
The Effect of Empathic Expression Levels in Virtual Human Interaction: A Controlled Experiment
Sung Park, Daeho Yoon, Jungmin Lee
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in everyday life, the ability of interactive agents to express empathy has become critical for effective human-…
Significant Other AI: Identity, Memory, and Emotional Regulation as Long-Term Relational Intelligence
Sung Park
Significant Others (SOs) stabilize identity, regulate emotion, and support narrative meaning-making, yet many people today lack access to such relational anchors. Recent advances i…
Design Framework for Conversational Agent in Couple relationships: A Systematic Review
Soyoung Jung, Sung Park
The development of conversational agents (CAs) has shown strong potential in supporting mental health through dialogue. While many studies focus on CAs for individual psychological…
Persode: Personalized Visual Journaling with Episodic Memory-Aware AI Agent
Seokho Jin, Manseo Kim, Sungho Byun +6
Reflective journaling often lacks personalization and fails to engage Generation Alpha and Z, who prefer visually immersive and fast-paced interactions over traditional text-heavy…