Emotion-Aware AI Companions for Inclusive Pilgrim Guidance

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  • Ahmed Mohamed Sayed Ahmed 3450 Ibrahim Diyae, shatea district, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Author

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https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRHSS2525034

Keywords:

Emotion-aware AI, Pilgrimage, Religious Tourism, Affective Computing, Digital Companions, Inclusivity

Abstract

Pilgrimage is a profoundly emotional and spiritual experience but nowadays, religious tourism is gradually coming into contact with the new technologies. Emotion-sensitive artificial intelligence (AI) can present an additional opportunity to make pilgrims more inclusive, safe, and even enhance the overall spiritual experience with the help of adaptive and empathetic digital support. This paper discusses how the new AI companions, intelligent systems that are able to detect, interpret, and react to the emotional state of pilgrims can enhance sacred journeys. These companions can assist pilgrims by offering individualized guidance, emotional encouragement and culturally delicate communication throughout the pilgrimage procedure by combining affective computing and conversation technologies. They are also able to ensure access to the elderly and disabled pilgrims and retain authenticity and spiritual richness. Moreover, sensitive data that has been collected in these systems like emotions and personal details can be safeguarded by use of secure data structures like blockchain. The empathetic AI companions are therefore a radical innovation in faith based technology, balancing innovation with empathy to establish inclusive, people-centred and spiritually conscious pilgrimage experiences.

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10-11-2025

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Vol. 2 No. 6 (2025): November-December

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Ahmed Mohamed Sayed Ahmed, “Emotion-Aware AI Companions for Inclusive Pilgrim Guidance”, Int J Sci Res Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 41–52, Nov. 2025, doi: 10.32628/IJSRHSS2525034.