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A Design Philosophy for Agents in the Smart Home
William Seymour
The home is often the most private space in people's lives, and not one in which they expect to be surveilled. However, today's market for smart home devices has quickly evolved to…
Ignorance is Bliss? The Effect of Explanations on Perceptions of Voice Assistants
William Seymour, Jose Such
Voice assistants offer a convenient and hands-free way of accessing computing in the home, but a key problem with speech as an interaction modality is how to scaffold accurate ment…
Consent on the Fly: Developing Ethical Verbal Consent for Voice Assistants
William Seymour, Mark Cote, Jose Such
Determining how voice assistants should broker consent to share data with third party software has proven to be a complex problem. Devices often require users to switch to companio…
Exploring Interactions Between Trust, Anthropomorphism, and Relationship Development in Voice Assistants
William Seymour, Max Van Kleek
Modern conversational agents such as Alexa and Google Assistant represent significant progress in speech recognition, natural language processing, and speech synthesis. But as thes…
Strangers in the Room: Unpacking Perceptions of 'Smartness' and Related Ethical Concerns in the Home
William Seymour, Reuben Binns, Petr Slovak +2
The increasingly widespread use of 'smart' devices has raised multifarious ethical concerns regarding their use in domestic spaces. Previous work examining such ethical dimensions…
Does Siri Have a Soul? Exploring Voice Assistants Through Shinto Design Fictions
William Seymour, Max Van Kleek
It can be difficult to critically reflect on technology that has become part of everyday rituals and routines. To combat this, speculative and fictional approaches have previously…