4 papers
Everything Counts: The Managed Omnirelevance of Speech in Human-Voice Agent Interaction
Damien Rudaz, Mathias Broth, Jakub Mlynar
To this day, turn-taking models determining voice agents' conduct have been examined primarily from a technical point of view, while the ways in which they emerge as interactional…
(Computer) Vision in Action: Comparing Remote Sighted Assistance and a Multimodal Voice Agent in Inspection Sequences
Damien Rudaz, Barbara Nino Carreras, Sara Merlino +2
Does human-AI assistance unfold in the same way as human-human assistance? This research explores what can be learned from the expertise of blind individuals and sighted volunteers…
Public speech recognition transcripts as a configuring parameter
Damien Rudaz, Christian Licoppe
Displaying a written transcript of what a human said (i.e. producing an "automatic speech recognition transcript") is a common feature for smartphone vocal assistants: the utteranc…
"Playing the robot's advocate": Bystanders' descriptions of a robot's conduct in public settings
Damien Rudaz, Christian Licoppe
Relying on a large corpus of natural interactions between visitors and a robot in a museum setting, we study a recurrent practice through which humans "worked" to maintain the robo…