Human-AI Interaction

🎉 MASCOT accepted to the EMNLP 2026 Main Conference

MASCOT, our multi-agent socio-collaborative companion framework, was accepted to the EMNLP 2026 Main Conference.

Aug 20, 2026

CultivAgents: Cultivating Relationship-Centered Multi-Agent Systems for Personalized Gardening
CultivAgents: Cultivating Relationship-Centered Multi-Agent Systems for Personalized Gardening

A relationship-centered multi-agent system that coordinates experience, environmental, and ethnobotanical agents to deliver personalized, culturally grounded gardening support.

May 22, 2026

🌱 New preprint — CultivAgents

Released CultivAgents, a relationship-centered multi-agent system for personalized gardening.

May 22, 2026

🎉 CompanionCast accepted at the ACM CHI 2026 Workshop

CompanionCast was accepted at the ACM CHI 2026 Workshop on Human-Agent Collaboration.

Mar 8, 2026

MASCOT: Multi-Agent Socio-Collaborative Companion Systems
MASCOT: Multi-Agent Socio-Collaborative Companion Systems

A multi-agent framework for socio-collaborative companions that uses bi-level optimization to improve persona consistency and reduce redundant, sycophantic dialogue.

Jan 20, 2026

MASCOT
MASCOT

Multi-agent socio-collaborative companion systems that stay in character and contribute meaningfully.

Jan 20, 2026

📝 New preprint — MASCOT

Released MASCOT, a framework for multi-agent socio-collaborative companion systems.

Jan 20, 2026

CompanionCast: A Multi-Agent Conversational AI Framework with Spatial Audio for Social Co-Viewing Experiences
CompanionCast: A Multi-Agent Conversational AI Framework with Spatial Audio for Social Co-Viewing Experiences

A framework that orchestrates specialized AI agents as social collaborators in live shared experiences, using multimodal event detection, rolling context caching, and spatial audio.

Dec 11, 2025

CompanionCast
CompanionCast

Orchestrating specialized AI agents as social collaborators in live shared experiences.

Dec 11, 2025

Eliciting Design Guidelines of Paper-Based Tactile Interfaces for Eyes-Free Scenarios

A study and participatory workshop eliciting eight design guidelines for paper-based tactile interfaces used in eyes-free scenarios.

Mar 4, 2025