Suzume-chan: Your Personal Navigator as an Embodied Information Hub
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| author | Torii, Maya Grace Murakami, Takahito Koseki, Shuka Ochiai, Yoichi |
| author_facet | Torii, Maya Grace Murakami, Takahito Koseki, Shuka Ochiai, Yoichi |
| contents | Access to expert knowledge often requires real-time human communication. Digital tools improve access to information but rarely create the sense of connection needed for deep understanding. This study addresses this issue using Social Presence Theory, which explains how a feeling of "being together" enhances communication. An "Embodied Information Hub" is proposed as a new way to share knowledge through physical and conversational interaction. The prototype, Suzume-chan, is a small, soft AI agent running locally with a language model and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). It learns from spoken explanations and responds through dialogue, reducing psychological distance and making knowledge sharing warmer and more human-centered. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Suzume-chan: Your Personal Navigator as an Embodied Information Hub Torii, Maya Grace Murakami, Takahito Koseki, Shuka Ochiai, Yoichi Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction Access to expert knowledge often requires real-time human communication. Digital tools improve access to information but rarely create the sense of connection needed for deep understanding. This study addresses this issue using Social Presence Theory, which explains how a feeling of "being together" enhances communication. An "Embodied Information Hub" is proposed as a new way to share knowledge through physical and conversational interaction. The prototype, Suzume-chan, is a small, soft AI agent running locally with a language model and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). It learns from spoken explanations and responds through dialogue, reducing psychological distance and making knowledge sharing warmer and more human-centered. |
| title | Suzume-chan: Your Personal Navigator as an Embodied Information Hub |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09932 |