CultivAgents: Cultivating Relationship-Centered Multi-Agent Systems for Personalized Gardening
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| author | Wang, Yiyang Reilly, Moeiini Johnson, Britney Yan, Kefei Cabral, Alex Hester, Josiah |
| author_facet | Wang, Yiyang Reilly, Moeiini Johnson, Britney Yan, Kefei Cabral, Alex Hester, Josiah |
| contents | Gardening is critical to support well-being, cultural continuity, and food autonomy, yet existing digital tools often provide generic advice that overlooks gardeners' skills, local ecologies, seasons, and cultural contexts. We introduce CultivAgents, a relationship-centered multi-agent system for personalized, socio-culturally grounded gardening support. Grounded in ethics of care, CultivAgents coordinates multiple specialized agents: an Experience Agent that adapts guidance to users' skill levels, an Environmental Agent that grounds advice in local and seasonal conditions, and an Ethnobotanical Agent that connects plants to cultural knowledge and histories. We evaluated CultivAgents through a three-phase mixed-methods study with domain experts (n=3), HCI researchers (n=7), and community gardeners (n=5), analyzing expert feedback, pre/post surveys, and participatory design activities. Results suggest that CultivAgents helped gardeners translate interest into situated action: community gardeners reported increased confidence (3.00 to 3.60), motivation (4.00 to 4.40), and trust in acting on AI advice (3.20 to 4.00). Participants valued hyperlocal ecological guidance and complementary agent perspectives, while also identifying limits in cultural specificity, ecological grounding, and agent coordination. The work advances relationship-centered AI, offering design implications for multi-agent systems that support food sovereignty, community resilience, and cultural preservation. |
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| spellingShingle | CultivAgents: Cultivating Relationship-Centered Multi-Agent Systems for Personalized Gardening Wang, Yiyang Reilly, Moeiini Johnson, Britney Yan, Kefei Cabral, Alex Hester, Josiah Human-Computer Interaction Computation and Language Computers and Society Multiagent Systems Gardening is critical to support well-being, cultural continuity, and food autonomy, yet existing digital tools often provide generic advice that overlooks gardeners' skills, local ecologies, seasons, and cultural contexts. We introduce CultivAgents, a relationship-centered multi-agent system for personalized, socio-culturally grounded gardening support. Grounded in ethics of care, CultivAgents coordinates multiple specialized agents: an Experience Agent that adapts guidance to users' skill levels, an Environmental Agent that grounds advice in local and seasonal conditions, and an Ethnobotanical Agent that connects plants to cultural knowledge and histories. We evaluated CultivAgents through a three-phase mixed-methods study with domain experts (n=3), HCI researchers (n=7), and community gardeners (n=5), analyzing expert feedback, pre/post surveys, and participatory design activities. Results suggest that CultivAgents helped gardeners translate interest into situated action: community gardeners reported increased confidence (3.00 to 3.60), motivation (4.00 to 4.40), and trust in acting on AI advice (3.20 to 4.00). Participants valued hyperlocal ecological guidance and complementary agent perspectives, while also identifying limits in cultural specificity, ecological grounding, and agent coordination. The work advances relationship-centered AI, offering design implications for multi-agent systems that support food sovereignty, community resilience, and cultural preservation. |
| title | CultivAgents: Cultivating Relationship-Centered Multi-Agent Systems for Personalized Gardening |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Computation and Language Computers and Society Multiagent Systems |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23193 |