AI Emotional Support Systems
A study of how students use AI when they want someone to talk to.
I’m studying how high school and college students use AI for emotional support. I want to understand the situations that lead someone to open a conversation, what they ask for, and what they find helpful or unhelpful.
The project combines a student survey with a review of academic literature on how systems should respond to distress. One part looks at behavior; the other examines questions that need to inform the design.
This work is connected to Thero. The archive entry describes the study’s direction; I’m still developing the research and am not presenting it here as a set of completed findings.