# Companion Currents
> Companion technology takes many forms: a robot in a nursing home, a character in a video game, a language-practice partner or an AI that remembers a conversation.

## Entries
- [Six Questions to Ask a Researcher About Care Robots in Nursing Homes](https://companion-currents.pages.dev/questions-care-robot-researcher/): Care robots in nursing homes are designed to support particular activities, including social interaction, entertainment, reminders, rehabilitation and.
- [A Language-Practice Partner Is Not a Friend: Understanding Social Presence and Its Limits](https://companion-currents.pages.dev/language-practice-partner-not-friend/): An AI language-practice partner can feel conversational, responsive and socially present without being a friend or a human teacher.
- [From Virtual Pets to Dialogue Trees: The History of Digital Game Companions](https://companion-currents.pages.dev/digital-companions-history-npcs/): Digital game companions developed from simple virtual pets and programmed characters into increasingly interactive figures with dialogue, routines and.
- [When a Companion Service Closes: What Happens to Characters, Conversations and Archives?](https://companion-currents.pages.dev/companion-service-shutdowns-and-archives/): When a companion service ends, the character, conversation history and user account may not all have the same fate.
- [How Companion Technologies Differ: Purpose, Medium and Control of Character Behavior](https://companion-currents.pages.dev/companion-categories-purpose-medium-control/): Companion technologies differ in what they are designed to accomplish, how people interact with them and who determines their behavior.
- [Adult-Oriented AI Companion Platforms: Understanding the Category and Its Formats](https://companion-currents.pages.dev/adult-oriented-ai-companion-platforms-explained/): Adult-oriented AI companion platforms are digital services built around fictional characters and continuing interactions for adult users.

## About
- [About Companion Currents](https://companion-currents.pages.dev/about/): what the site covers and how entries are made

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