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20192021
most citedWhat Makes a Good Conversation? Challenges in Designing Truly Conversational Agents

457 citations · 584 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.HC2021

Alexa, Play Fetch! A Review of Alexa Skills for Pets

Justin Edwards, Orla Cooney, Rachel Edwards

Alexa Skills are used for a variety of daily routines and purposes, but little research has focused on a key part of many people's daily lives: their pets. We present a systematic…

cs.HC20215 cited

CUI @ Auto-UI: Exploring the Fortunate and Unfortunate Futures of Conversational Automotive User Interfaces

Justin Edwards, Philipp Wintersberger, Leigh Clark +6

This work aims to connect the Automotive User Interfaces (Auto-UI) and Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) communities through discussion of their shared view of the future of aut…

cs.HC20212 cited

Bridging Social Distance During Social Distancing: Exploring Social Talk and Remote Collegiality in Video Conferencing

Anna Bleakley, Daniel Rough, Justin Edwards +6

Video conferencing systems have long facilitated work-related conversations among remote teams. However, social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic has forced colleagues to use…

cs.HC2021

Eliciting Spoken Interruptions to Inform Proactive Speech Agent Design

Justin Edwards, Christian Janssen, Sandy Gould +1

Current speech agent interactions are typically user-initiated, limiting the interactions they can deliver. Future functionality will require agents to be proactive, sometimes inte…

cs.HC20218 cited

LGBTQ-AI? Exploring Expressions of Gender and Sexual Orientation in Chatbots

Justin Edwards, Leigh Clark, Allison Perrone

Chatbots are popular machine partners for task-oriented and social interactions. Human-human computer-mediated communication research has explored how people express their gender a…

cs.HC202024 cited

Mental Workload and Language Production in Non-Native Speaker IPA Interaction

Yunhan Wu, Justin Edwards, Orla Cooney +5

Through proliferation on smartphones and smart speakers, intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) have made speech a common interaction modality. Yet, due to linguistic coverage and…