Caregivers often turn to online communities for informational and emotional support. In these spaces, peer supporters frequently draw on personal narratives to respond to emotionally complex caregiving situations.
arXiv:2606. 19247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Family members caring for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) provide the foundation of long-term care worldwide.
By Keran Wang, Drishti Goel, Jiayue Melissa Shi, Violeta J. Rodriguez, Daniel S. Brown, Dong Whi Yoo, Ravi Karkar, Koustuv Saha
arXiv:2607. 17826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the growing availability of customizable social artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT, Grok, and Character.
By Marita Skjuve, Anna Gr{\o}ndal Larsen, Asbj{\o}rn F{\o}lstad, Nena van As, Petter Bae Brandtzaeg
arXiv:2608. 08443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Previous studies have shown that people can develop shared symbols, partner-specific expressions, personal idioms, inside jokes, and other parts of a relational microculture.
By Miki Ueno
arXiv:2606. 04150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public discourse and emerging policy typically assume that AI emotional support is a deliberate act: a lonely user consciously seeking comfort from a dedicated companion chatbot.
By Yaoxi Shi, Cathy Mengying Fang, Pattie Maez, Amit Goldenberg
arXiv:2606. 22748v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Some professional authors are beginning to use AI tools to help produce their fiction writing.
By Neel Gupta, Maria Antoniak, Melanie Walsh
arXiv:2607. 11039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Young job seekers frequently turn to social media to compare themselves with peers and make sense of career possibilities.
By Pengping Tan, Baoquan Zhao, Zhenhui Peng
arXiv:2606. 03876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the growing prevalence of modern ubiquitous computing technologies, multi-modal tracking systems hold promise for providing timely awareness and reassurance to stakeholders such as remote family members (RFMs) of older adults, who play a central role in care coordination.
By Jiachen Li, Reina Szeyi Chan, Akshat Choube, Xiang Zhi Tan, Elizabeth Mynatt, Varun Mishra
Despite the growing availability of customizable social artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT, Grok, and Character. ai, we know little about how users actively shape social AI to reflect their personal preferences.
arXiv:2606. 18256v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based chatbots are increasingly applied in interpersonal domains such as counseling and peer support, where establishing human-AI rapport is crucial yet remains challenging.
By Yoonseok Oh, Inseo Jung, Jinkyu Kim, Jungbeom Lee, Minwoo Kang, Suhong Moon
arXiv:2607. 26062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: This work investigates the presence of implicit bias in Large Language Model (LLM)-based chat AI models directed toward people with intellectual disabilities (ID).
By Karly V. Coffey, Gloria L. Krahn, John P. Hanley, Jacob E. Neely
arXiv:2607. 14593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As conversational AI systems are designed for repeated use, a central question is how a series of interactions becomes a relationship.
By Ryuichi Sumida, Mao Saeki, Masaki Eguchi, Sadahiro Yoshikawa, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara, Yoichi Matsuyama