Autiverse: Eliciting Autistic Adolescents' Daily Narratives through AI-guided Multimodal Journaling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17466v1
• Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:02:09 GMT
• Title: Autiverse: Eliciting Autistic Adolescents' Daily Narratives through AI-guided Multimodal Journaling
• Authors: Migyeong Yang, Kyungah Lee, Jinyoung Han, SoHyun Park, Young-Ho Kim,
• Abstract summary: We present Autiverse, an AI-guided multimodal journaling app for tablets.<n>Autiverse elicits key details through a stepwise dialogue with peer-like, customizable AI.<n>It composes them into an editable four-panel comic strip.
• Score: 21.638838467146467
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Journaling can potentially serve as an effective method for autistic adolescents to improve narrative skills. However, its text-centric nature and high executive functioning demands present barriers to practice. We present Autiverse, an AI-guided multimodal journaling app for tablets that scaffolds storytelling through conversational prompts and visual supports. Autiverse elicits key details through a stepwise dialogue with peer-like, customizable AI and composes them into an editable four-panel comic strip. Through a two-week deployment study with 10 autistic adolescent-parent dyads, we examine how Autiverse supports autistic adolescents to organize their daily experience and emotion. Autiverse helped them construct coherent narratives, while enabling parents to learn additional details of their child's events and emotions. The customized AI peer created a comfortable space for sharing, fostering enjoyment and a strong sense of agency. We discuss the implications of designing technologies that complement autistic adolescents' strengths while ensuring their autonomy and safety in sharing experiences.

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