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
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979-8-4007-2564-7
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Hyper-Personalized Virtual Companion: Generative Tamagotchi to Cultivate Personal Goals
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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
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3800935.3830854
ccs_concepts
CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Interactive systems and tools ;
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Qiming Sun, Sharon I-Han Hsiao
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3800935
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2026-09-14
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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