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An Empirical Study of Topic Transition in Dialogue
Mayank Soni, Brendan Spillane, Emer Gilmartin +3
Transitioning between topics is a natural component of human-human dialog. Although topic transition has been studied in dialogue for decades, only a handful of corpora based studi…
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…
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…
Enhancing Self-Disclosure In Neural Dialog Models By Candidate Re-ranking
Mayank Soni, Benjamin Cowan, Vincent Wade
Neural language modelling has progressed the state-of-the-art in different downstream Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. One such area is of open-domain dialog modelling, neu…
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…
Eliciting and Analysing Users' Envisioned Dialogues with Perfect Voice Assistants
Sarah Theres Völkel, Daniel Buschek, Malin Eiband +2
We present a dialogue elicitation study to assess how users envision conversations with a perfect voice assistant (VA). In an online survey, N=205 participants were prompted with e…
What Do We See in Them? Identifying Dimensions of Partner Models for Speech Interfaces Using a Psycholexical Approach
Philip R Doyle, Leigh Clark, Benjamin R Cowan
Perceptions of system competence and communicative ability, termed partner models, play a significant role in speech interface interaction. Yet we do not know what the core dimensi…