Hyper-Personalized Virtual Companion: Generative Tamagotchi to Cultivate Personal GoalsLLM-powered virtual conversational companions tend to lose engagement once conversational novelty fades, as dialogue alone provides no persistent reason to return.
- doi
- 10.1145/3800935.3830854
- isbn
- 979-8-4007-2564-7
- name
- Hyper-Personalized Virtual Companion: Generative Tamagotchi to Cultivate Personal Goals
- source
- html
- acm_url
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800935.3830854
- authors
- Qiming Sun, Sharon I-Han Hsiao
- doi_url
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830854
- license
- CC BY 4.0
- summary
- LLM-powered virtual conversational companions tend to lose engagement once conversational novelty fades, as dialogue alone provides no persistent reason to return.
- keywords
- virtual pets; generative AI; personalization; conversational agents; AI companion; goal-setting
- published
- 2026-09-14
- conference
- HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
- acm_html_url
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3800935.3830854
- ccs_concepts
- CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Interactive systems and tools ;
- displayAuthor
- Qiming Sun, Sharon I-Han Hsiao
- proceedings_url
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3800935
- displayPublishTime
- 2026-09-14
- acm_reference_format
- ACM Reference Format: Qiming Sun and Sharon I-Han Hsiao. 2026. Hyper-Personalized Virtual Companion: Generative Tamagotchi to Cultivate Personal Goals. In 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), September 14--18, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA 5 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830854
Powered by Seed HypermediaOpen App