让玩具伙伴拥有数字分身,实现情感陪伴的无缝延续。
Deco: Extending Personal Physical Objects into Pervasive AI Companion through a Dual-Embodiment Framework

- 用双实体框架将物理玩具与数字助手同步,继承情感记忆。
- 用户感知陪伴度提升显著,七天实验中幸福感改善(p=0.04)。
- 适合关注情感连接、人机共情设计的研究者与开发者。
人们常对物理物品(如毛绒玩具)产生深厚情感,但这些物品无法感知或回应情绪。尽管数字伴侣具备响应性与个性化,却独立于物理对象,缺乏持续连接。我们通过9名用户的探索性研究,提炼出四个设计原则:忠实身份、校准自主性、环境存在感、双向记忆。随后提出双实体伴侣框架,构建名为Deco的移动系统,融合多模态大语言模型与增强现实技术,使用户物理伙伴获得同步数字化身。25人自身对照实验显示,Deco在陪伴感、情感联结及设计原则评分上均显著优于基于个性化大模型的基准(全部p<0.01)。为期七天的实地部署(N=17)表明,用户持续参与,主观幸福感提升(p=0.04),并观察到三种关键关系模式:数字活动反向激活了物理对象的意义;情感联结深化取决于情绪投入深度而非互动频率;用户在认知数字伴侣的AI本质前提下仍能维持情感纽带。本研究提出一种新范式:从创造新关系转向双实体延伸,让数字代理自然延续物理物品的情感历史。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Individuals frequently form deep attachments to physical objects (e.g., plush toys) that usually cannot sense or respond to their emotions. While AI companions offer responsiveness and personalization, they exist independently of these physical objects and lack an ongoing connection to them. To bridge this gap, we conducted a formative study (N=9) to explore how digital agents could inherit and extend the emotional bond, deriving four design principles (Faithful Identity, Calibrated Agency, Ambient Presence, and Reciprocal Memory). We then present the Dual-Embodiment Companion Framework, instantiated as Deco, a mobile system integrating multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) and Augmented Reality to create synchronized digital embodiments of users' physical companions. A within-subjects study (N=25) showed Deco significantly outperformed a personalized LLM-empowered digital companion baseline on perceived companionship, emotional bond, and design-principle scales (all p<0.01). A seven-day field deployment (N=17) showed sustained engagement, subjective well-being improvement (p=.040), and three key relational patterns: digital activities retroactively vitalized physical objects, bond deepening was driven by emotional engagement depth rather than interaction frequency, and users sustained bonds while actively navigating digital companions' AI nature. This work highlights a promising alternative for designing digital companions: moving from creating new relationships to dual embodiment, where digital agents seamlessly extend the emotional history of physical objects.
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