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Zi-Jian Ding

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#human-computer interacti... Preprint Oct 2026

PAIR: Perceptual Affective Inference and Regulation in a Real-Time Multimodal Conversational Agent

Sustained emotional support requires generative agents to connect momentary emotion inference and regulation with continuity across encounters. We present PAIR (Perceptual Affective Inference and Regulation), a real-time multimodal agent that reconstructs how an event is appraised into an emotional state. Appraisal sca...

Kexin Quan, Zi-Jian Ding, Jia-Ye Yong et al. · 0 citations

#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

From Momentary Emotion Inference to Sustained Emotion Support: Evaluating a Companion Agent in a Longitudinal Study

PAIR, a theory-based emotion-regulation companion, was deployed with 19 participants for 14 days and linked memory updates and retained corrections to cross-session personalization, informing future emotional support tools that adapt to evolving needs, learn from prior outcomes, and preserve user control over memory.

Kexin Quan, Zi-Jian Ding, Jia-Ye Yong et al. · 0 citations