Youth on Character.AI use chatbots for emotional restoration, creative exploration, and identity transformation, yielding a new three-intent framework and seven-archetype taxonomy from Discord discourse analysis.
InProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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AI-authored goals produce higher SMART quality scores but lower psychological ownership, commitment, importance, and goal-directed behavior than self-authored goals, with ownership as the mediating mechanism.
Chaplains view AI chatbots as unable to provide attuned pastoral care for non-clinical emotional needs, based on themes of listening, connecting, carrying, and wanting.
An experiment found LLM counterarguments improved group flexibility and satisfaction while AI mediation boosted minority participation but lowered psychological safety.
A 15-day study of a voice journaling app with structured reflection prompts based on psychological models found improvements in coping flexibility and more action plans in the guided condition.
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Restoration, Exploration and Transformation: How Youth Engage Character.AI Chatbots for Feels, Fun and Finding themselves
Youth on Character.AI use chatbots for emotional restoration, creative exploration, and identity transformation, yielding a new three-intent framework and seven-archetype taxonomy from Discord discourse analysis.
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Optimized but Unowned: How AI-Authored Goals Undermine the Motivation They Are Meant to Drive
AI-authored goals produce higher SMART quality scores but lower psychological ownership, commitment, importance, and goal-directed behavior than self-authored goals, with ownership as the mediating mechanism.
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Chaplains' Reflections on the Design and Usage of AI for Conversational Care
Chaplains view AI chatbots as unable to provide attuned pastoral care for non-clinical emotional needs, based on themes of listening, connecting, carrying, and wanting.
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Investigating LLM-Powered Dissenting Minority Support in Power-Imbalanced Group Decision-Making: Counterargument and Mediation as Intervention Strategies
An experiment found LLM counterarguments improved group flexibility and satisfaction while AI mediation boosted minority participation but lowered psychological safety.
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Breaking Negative Cycles: A Reflection-To-Action System For Adaptive Change
A 15-day study of a voice journaling app with structured reflection prompts based on psychological models found improvements in coping flexibility and more action plans in the guided condition.