The last decade of HCI research on children and voice-based conversational agents

R Garg, H Cui, S Seligson, B Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Voice-based Conversational Agents (CAs) are increasingly being used by children. Through
a review of 38 research papers, this work maps trends, themes, and methods of empirical …

Do you follow? a fully automated system for adaptive robot presenters

A Axelsson, G Skantze - Proceedings of the 2023 acm/ieee international …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
An interesting application for social robots is to act as a presenter, for example as a museum
guide. In this paper, we present a fully automated system architecture for building adaptive …

Toward a design theory for virtual companionship

T Strohmann, D Siemon, B Khosrawi-Rad… - Human–Computer …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Due to significant technological advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), which are
driven by increased computing power, the ubiquitous availability of data, as well as new …

Collaborating with a text-based chatbot: An exploration of real-world collaboration strategies enacted during human-chatbot interactions

A Rapp, A Boldi, L Curti, A Perrucci… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
A central problem for chatbots in the customer care domain revolves around how people
collaborate with the agent to achieve their own situated goals. The majority of the previous …

User perceptions of extraversion in chatbots after repeated use

ST Völkel, R Schoedel, L Kaya, S Mayer - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Whilst imbuing robots and voice assistants with personality has been found to positively
impact user experience, little is known about user perceptions of personality in purely text …

Exploring how politeness impacts the user experience of chatbots for mental health support

R Bowman, O Cooney, JW Newbold, A Thieme… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Politeness is important in human–human interaction when asking people to engage in
sensitive conversations. If politeness manifests similarly in human–chatbot interaction, it may …

How do people ascribe humanness to chatbots? An analysis of real-world human-agent interactions and a theoretical model of humanness

A Rapp, A Boldi, L Curti, A Perrucci… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
A central problem in text-based chatbot research revolves around humanness: not only
chatbots may reproduce fundamental aspects of being human, but also users may attribute …

Effects of cross-cultural language differences on social cognition during human-agent interaction in cooperative game environments

CC Bennett, YH Bae, JH Yoon, Y Chae, E Yoon… - Computer Speech & …, 2023 - Elsevier
A major challenge in human-robot interaction (HRI) is creating the “social fluidity” necessary
for humans to perceive the interaction as life-like. During verbal interactions, for instance, the …

Introduction to this special issue: guiding the conversation: new theory and design perspectives for conversational user interfaces

BR Cowan, L Clark, H Candello… - Human–Computer …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The increased popularity of CUIs has motivated HCI work around specific approaches to
research, design, and implementation, while also reflecting on these topics. However …

Unifying recommender systems and conversational user interfaces

AD Starke, M Lee - Proceedings of the 4th Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This paper considers unifying research on conversational user interfaces and recommender
systems. Studies on conversational user interfaces (CUIs) typically examine how …