Characterizing LLM-Empowered Personalized Story-Reading and Interaction for Children: Insights from Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives

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Title: Characterizing LLM-Empowered Personalized Story-Reading and Interaction for Children: Insights from Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives
Authors: Chen, Jiaju, Tang, Minglong, Lu, Yuxuan, Yao, Bingsheng, Fan, Elissa, Ma, Xiaojuan, Xu, Ying, Wang, Dakuo, Sun, Yuling, He, Liang
Publication Year: 2025
Collection: Computer Science
Subject Terms: Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction
More Details: Personalized interaction is highly valued by parents in their story-reading activities with children. While AI-empowered story-reading tools have been increasingly used, their abilities to support personalized interaction with children are still limited. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) show promise in facilitating personalized interactions, but little is known about how to effectively and appropriately use LLMs to enhance children's personalized story-reading experiences. This work explores this question through a design-based study. Drawing on a formative study, we designed and developed StoryMate, an LLM-empowered personalized interactive story-reading tool for children, following an empirical study with children, parents, and education experts. Our participants valued the personalized features in StoryMate, and also highlighted the need to support personalized content, guiding mechanisms, reading context variations, and interactive interfaces. Based on these findings, we propose a series of design recommendations for better using LLMs to empower children's personalized story reading and interaction.
Comment: Accepted at CHI 2025
Document Type: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1145/3706598.3713275
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00590
Accession Number: edsarx.2503.00590
Database: arXiv
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DOI:10.1145/3706598.3713275