Social robots, conversational agents, voice assistants, and other embodied AI are
increasingly a feature of everyday life. What connects these various types of intelligent …

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 …

Conversational agents promise conversational interaction but fail to deliver. Efforts often
emulate functional rules from human speech, without considering key characteristics that …

We investigate how families repair communication breakdowns with digital home assistants.
We recruited 10 diverse families to use an Amazon Echo Dot in their homes for four weeks …

Children are known to be curious and persistent questionaskers. The pervasiveness of voice
interfaces represents an opportunity for children who are not yet fluent readers to …

Over the past few years, the technological vision of the HCI and UbiComp communities
regarding conversational devices has become manifest in the form of smart speakers such …

Smart speakers have become pervasive in family homes, creating the potential for these
devices to influence parent-child dynamics and parenting behaviors. We investigate the …

The growing prevalence of artificial intelligence and digital media in children's lives provides
them with the opportunity to interact with novel non-human agents such as robots and voice …

Children are increasingly exposed to devices that can access the internet, such as
computers, smartphones, and tablets, beginning early in life. This review summarizes …

Recent years have seen growing interest in'ethics' within the Child-Computer Interaction
(CCI) community. In this paper, we take stock of 18 years of CCI research by conducting a …