Same Stories, Different Journeys: Exploring Persona-Grounded Conversational Agents for Supporting Career Exploration with Peers' Posts

arXiv:2607.11039 · cs.HC, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-07-13 · Read on arXiv

cs.HC, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-07-13

Updated: 2026-09-23

Terminology

• Core — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Frustration — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• RAG — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AI Agents — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cognitive Load — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Determination Theory — 4× in this paper
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cosine Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptability — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptivity — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Affordance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire — 1× in this paper
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• EMMA — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Emotional Resonance — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
• CareerPooler: AI-Powered Metaphorical Pool Simulation Improves Experience and Outcomes in Career Exploration
• ComViewer: An Interactive Visual Tool to Help Viewers Seek Social Support in Online Mental Health Communities

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