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SupportPlay: A Multi-Agent Role-Playing System for Personalized and Sustained Multimodal Emotional Support Conversation

  • Geng Tu
  • , Bingbing Wang
  • , Erik Cambria
  • , Wenjie Li
  • , Ruifeng Xu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen
  • Nanyang Technological University
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Peng Cheng Laboratory
  • Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Novel Security Intelligence Technologies

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Abstract

In this demo, we present SupportPlay, a multi-agent role-playing system for emotional support conversation (ESC) that addresses the limitations of existing methods in providing personalized, sustained, and multimodal support. SupportPlay generates potential seeker profiles from existing ESC datasets and employs GPT-powered agents to play various seeker roles, enabling the supporter to learn personalized memories for each seeker. Subsequently, the supporter can induce general memory from these memories for real user interactions while learning the user's personalized memory in a similar manner. Through continuous memory management-including retrieval, storage, reflection, and forgetting-SupportPlay delivers tailored emotional support across interactions. By integrating text, speech, and video, SupportPlay creates immersive emotional support experiences.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWWW Companion 2025 - Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2025
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages2915-2918
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9798400713316
DOIs
StatePublished - 23 May 2025
Externally publishedYes
Event34th ACM Web Conference, WWW Companion 2025 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: 28 Apr 20252 May 2025

Publication series

NameWWW Companion 2025 - Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2025

Conference

Conference34th ACM Web Conference, WWW Companion 2025
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period28/04/252/05/25

Keywords

  • Emotional support conversation
  • memory management
  • multimodal generation
  • personalized memories

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