Drawing from Conversation Analysis (CA), we examine how the orientation towards
progressivity in talk-keeping things moving-might help us better understand and design for …

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 …

What if things had a voice? What if we could talk directly to things instead of using a
mediating voice interface such as an Alexa or a Google Assistant? In this paper, we share …

2. Background Several disciplines provided the theoretical framework for our study and
guided our study design, specifically the fields of Value Sensitive Design (VSD), Material …

The capabilities of humans and AI systems to be creative and perform alongside one
another have given rise to new practices of 'artificial creativity'. In this article, I argue that …

This article explores how visually impaired people (VIP) navigate around (a) stationary
people and (b) moving people, when guided by the Boston Dynamics' robotic “dog” and its …

Voice user interfaces (VUIs) have made their way into people's daily lives, from voice
assistants to smart speakers. Although VUIs typically just react to direct user commands …

As a concept,'conversation'is rife with troublemaking potential. It is not that we should
necessarily abandon use of'conversation'in conversational user interface (CUI) research, but …

Moments of trouble and miscommunication occur regularly when users interact with virtual
assistants like smart speakers. To add to the understanding of how users treat moments of …

The paper presents research results emerging from the analysis of Intelligent Personal
Assistants (IPA) log data. Based on the assumption that media and data, as part of practice …