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Listening to the Voices: Describing Ethical Caveats of Conversational User Interfaces According to Experts and Frequent Users
Thomas Mildner, Orla Cooney, Anna-Maria Meck +9
Advances in natural language processing and understanding have led to a rapid growth in the popularity of conversational user interfaces (CUIs). While CUIs introduce novel benefits…
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…
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…
See what I'm saying? Comparing Intelligent Personal Assistant use for Native and Non-Native Language Speakers
Yunhan Wu, Daniel Rough, Anna Bleakley +5
Limited linguistic coverage for Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) means that many interact in a non-native language. Yet we know little about how IPAs currently support or hin…
What Makes a Good Conversation? Challenges in Designing Truly Conversational Agents
Leigh Clark, Nadia Pantidi, Orla Cooney +8
Conversational agents promise conversational interaction but fail to deliver. Efforts often emulate functional rules from human speech, without considering key characteristics that…