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most citedCUI@CHI 2024: Building Trust in CUIs-From Design to Deployment

8 citations · 11 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.HC2026

Deflecting the Value Compass: Interacting with Large Language Models Temporarily Shifts Human Value Priorities Toward Personal Focus

Hasibur Rahman, Malak Sadek, Smit Desai

Large language models increasingly support decisions where values are in tension, yet little is known about whether interacting with them changes which values users prioritize. In…

cs.HC2026

Annie, Are You Okay? How Style- and Context-Based Personalization Shape AI-Assisted Decision-Making

Hasibur Rahman, Benjamin R. Cowan, Smit Desai

As people turn to generative AI for financial advice, these systems can personalize how they communicate and what they say. Whether these forms of personalization shape decisions d…

cs.CL2026

Misalignment Has a Personality: A Big Five Account of Emergent Misalignment

Hasibur Rahman, Smit Desai

Fine-tuning a language model on data containing a narrow flaw, such as insecure code or incorrect mathematical answers, can cause broad misalignment through a mechanism that remain…

cs.CL2026

Behavior-Adaptive Conversational Agents: Toward a Fluid Personality Framework

Hasibur Rahman, Smit Desai

Large language model (LLM)-based conversational agents (CAs) are now ubiquitous, creating new opportunities for AI-mediated behavior change. Their capacity to project nuanced perso…

cs.HC2026

Explanations as Dialogues: Toward Human-Centered Conversational Explainable AI

Niharika Mathur, Smit Desai

As AI systems become increasingly conversational, a gap emerges wherein explanations are studied as static artifacts, yet in practice, are experienced as dialogue. In this provocat…

cs.HC2026

Tell Me Why, When, and How: Effects of Personality, Evidence, and Context on Older Adults' Perceptions of Conversational AI Explanations

Niharika Mathur, Hasibur Rahman, Smit Desai

Large Language Model-based voice assistants (LLM-VAs) have shown potential to support older adults aging in place through proactive reminders, health information, and everyday assi…

cs.HC2026

"Who wants to be nagged by AI?": Investigating the Effects of Agreeableness on Older Adults' Perception of LLM-Based Voice Assistants' Explanations

Niharika Mathur, Hasibur Rahman, Smit Desai

LLM-based voice assistants (VAs) increasingly support older adults aging in place, yet how an assistant's agreeableness shapes explanation perception remains underexplored. We cond…

cs.HC2025★ 1 cited

Personas Evolved: Designing Ethical LLM-Based Conversational Agent Personalities

Smit Desai, Mateusz Dubiel, Nima Zargham +2

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs), enabling more dynamic, context-aware, and human-like interactions across div…

cs.HC2024★ 2 cited

Designing AI Personalities: Enhancing Human-Agent Interaction Through Thoughtful Persona Design

Nima Zargham, Mateusz Dubiel, Smit Desai +2

In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI) agents, designing the agent's characteristics is crucial for shaping user experience. This workshop aims to establish…

cs.HC2024

Examining Humanness as a Metaphor to Design Voice User Interfaces

Smit Desai, Mateusz Dubiel, Luis A. Leiva

Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) increasingly leverage 'humanness' as a foundational design metaphor, adopting roles like 'assistants,' 'teachers,' and 'secretaries' to foster natural…

cs.HC2024★ 8 cited

CUI@CHI 2024: Building Trust in CUIs-From Design to Deployment

Smit Desai, Christina Wei, Jaisie Sin +10

Conversational user interfaces (CUIs) have become an everyday technology for people the world over, as well as a booming area of research. Advances in voice synthesis and the emerg…