AI in Service Interactions

External reference: https://openalex.org/T12128

  1. Affective and Goal-Oriented Factors of Relationship Formation in the Digital Therapeutic Alliance: A Longitudinal Study of Mental Health Chatbots
    Study reveals that emotional support and practical assistance drive user relationships with mental health chatbots, with trust and satisfaction as outcomes rather than predictors.
  2. RAG Without the Lag: Enabling "What-If" Analysis for Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipelines
    Raggy enables rapid experimentation in retrieval-augmented generation pipelines through composable primitives and interactive debugging, reducing development friction.
  3. The Global Impact of Generative AI on the HCI Landscape: International Perspectives on HCI Education, Industry Dynamics, and Funding Considerations
    Panel discussion on generative AI's multidimensional impact on HCI globally: education, industry dynamics, and funding across diverse regions and cultures.
  4. Beijing AIoT elderly care faces multiple implementation barriers
    Study identifies barriers to AIoT elderly care adoption in Beijing, proposing policy solutions addressing systemic fragmentation, digital literacy gaps, workforce shortages, and funding challenges.
  5. Tracking Together: A Robot-and-App-Based Speech Analysis System to Support Shared Meaning-Making Among Dementia Care Partners
    Study examines how people with dementia and care partners want to use tracking technology, revealing needs for autonomy support, actionable insights, and relational understanding.
  6. Some medical chatbot answers may be unsafe
    Physician-led evaluation of four large language model chatbots reveals unsafe medical advice rates from 5-13%, with potentially serious consequences for patient care.
  7. Students viewed generative AI as useful but risky
    Survey of 71 students reveals perceptions of generative AI as academically beneficial while raising concerns about privacy, reliability, and plagiarism, with strong commitment to integrity principles.
  8. Teacher candidates mostly viewed AI in language learning positively
    Study of 46 Turkish language teacher candidates reveals predominantly positive metaphorical views of AI in education, with 78% expressing optimism, but highlights need for ethics education.
  9. L1 teachers show moderate acceptance of generative AI
    Study of 124 Dutch L1 teachers' beliefs about generative AI in language education, examining acceptance levels, concerns, and opportunities for integration in writing, linguistics, and literature.
  10. Ritchy: Combining AI Automation with Human Quality Assurance in University IT Support
    Ritchy chatbot combines RAG with human quality assurance at RWTH Aachen University IT support, achieving 76% satisfaction through weekly human review of all conversations.
  11. GenAI can improve consulting efficiency but raises risks
    Qualitative study of German consulting firms examining how Task-GenAI Fit framework balances generative AI efficiency gains against risks like hallucinations and skill loss.
  12. Older adults still faced interaction challenges with voice assistants
    Month-long in-home study examining how older adults interact with voice assistants, revealing persistent challenges despite LLM integration and proposing design considerations.
  13. Emotion-adaptive eco-feedback concepts were generated for home assistants
    Study investigating emotion-adaptive eco-feedback in personal assistants through co-design methodology, generating eight design concepts integrating emotion AI for home energy management.
  14. Cleo: A Transparent and Controllable Chatbot for Conversational Commerce
    Cleo is a transparent conversational commerce chatbot that combines explicit ranking with constrained language generation to provide auditable product recommendations while preventing hallucination.
  15. Consumers like AI banking benefits but worry about trust and data safety
    Research examining consumer adaptation to AI banking technologies through mixed methods reveals positive sentiment toward functional benefits alongside concerns about data security and trust.
  16. Beyond the Conversational Paradigm: Models, Design Principles, and Tools for Advancing the Spectrum of Human-LLM Interaction
    Explore how LLM interfaces extend beyond conversations to integrate graphical elements. Research reveals user preferences vary by task, expertise, and context, enabling adaptive hybrid interface.
  17. Neural Transparency: Mechanistic Interpretability Interfaces for Anticipating Model Behaviors for Personalized AI
    Neural transparency interface for LLM chatbot design enabling users to anticipate model behaviors through mechanistic interpretability visualization of behavioral trait vectors.
  18. AI jewelry platform enabled custom design, chat, and live pricing
    Full-stack e-commerce platform integrating generative AI for custom jewelry design, conversational intelligence with live commodity pricing, and real-time market data for heritage jewelry retailers.
  19. Assessing the Critical Failure Factors of AI Chatbots for Research Using ISM Approach
    Study using interpretive structural modeling to analyze critical failure factors of AI chatbots in academic research, revealing researcher knowledge deficiency as the primary constraint.
  20. CropCare-RAG gave more reliable crop-disease answers
    Agricultural advisory system integrating vision-language models and retrieval-augmented generation for reliable crop disease identification and knowledge-grounded farmer guidance.