Maintaining Long-Distance Relationships with (Mediocre) LLM-based Chatbots: A Collaborative Ethnographic Study

Bernd Ploderer, Tara Capel, Nomin-Erdene Davaakhuu, Nok Hei Tung, Dili Mariya Maichal, Aditya Krishna Kuzhiparambil, Quang Hung Mai, Wolfgang Reitberger. Maintaining Long-Distance Relationships with (Mediocre) LLM-based Chatbots: A Collaborative Ethnographic Study. In Naomi Yamashita, Vanessa Evers, Koji Yatani, Xianghua (Sharon) Ding, editors, Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2025, Yokohama, Japan, 26 April 2025- 1 May 2025. ACM, 2025. [doi]

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Bernd Ploderer

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Nomin-Erdene Davaakhuu

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