Voice assistants have become hugely popular in the home as domestic and entertainment
devices. Recently, there has been a move towards developing them for work settings. For …

Current research on building intelligent agents for aiding with productivity and focus in the
workplace is quite limited, despite the ubiquity of information workers across the globe. In …

People are currently facing a one-to-multiple mode of interaction with voice agents (VAs),
which are widely used in their personal and working lives separately owing to the rapid …

Despite a growing body of research about the design and use of conversational agents,
existing work has almost exclusively focused on interactions between an agent and a …

Despite a growing body of research about the design and use of Smart Personal Assistants,
such as Google's Assistant or Amazon's Alexa, existing work has mainly focused on their …

Conversational agents (CAs), described as software with which humans interact through
natural language, have increasingly attracted interest in both academia and practice …

The study of agent helpers using linguistic strategies such as vague language and
politeness has often come across obstacles. One of these is the quality of the agent's voice …

Conversational agents continue to permeate our lives in different forms, such as virtual
assistants on mobile devices or chatbots on websites and social media. The interaction with …

AI-enabled technology, such as digital voice assistants (VA), affects employees
collaborating with it. This study, first, examines employees' perceptions of autonomy …

Conversational Agents (CA) have become one of the common user interfaces in many
online domains. In this paper, we ask whether users have a preference about the personality …