CultivAgents
CultivAgents system overview (adapted from the paper).Gardening supports well-being, cultural continuity, and food autonomy, yet most digital tools give generic advice that ignores a gardener’s skills, local ecology, and cultural context. CultivAgents is a relationship-centered multi-agent system, grounded in an ethics of care, that coordinates three specialized agents — an Experience Agent attuned to skill level, an Environmental Agent grounded in local and seasonal conditions, and an Ethnobotanical Agent that connects plants to cultural knowledge.
My role. I led this project, designing the system and a three-phase mixed-methods evaluation with domain experts, HCI researchers, and community gardeners. Participants reported increased confidence, motivation, and trust in acting on AI advice, and valued the complementary perspectives of the agents — while also surfacing limits in cultural specificity and agent coordination that motivate future work.
