2 papers
cs.HC2026
After Talking with 1,000 Personas: Learning Preference-Aligned Proactive Assistants From Large-Scale Persona Interactions
Ziyi Xuan, Yiwen Wu, Zhaoyang Yan +2
Smart assistants increasingly act proactively, yet mistimed or intrusive behavior often causes users to lose trust and disable these features. Learning user preferences for proacti…
cs.HC2025
Design and Evaluation of Generative Agent-based Platform for Human-Assistant Interaction Research: A Tale of 10 User Studies
Ziyi Xuan, Yiwen Wu, Xuhai Xu +3
Designing and evaluating personalized and proactive assistant agents remains challenging due to the time, cost, and ethical concerns associated with human-in-the-loop experimentati…