Conversational information seeking

H Zamani, JR Trippas, J Dalton… - … and Trends® in …, 2023 - nowpublishers.com
Conversational information seeking (CIS) is concerned with a sequence of interactions
between one or more users and an information system. Interactions in CIS are primarily …

Anthropomorphizing technology: a conceptual review of anthropomorphism research and how it relates to children's engagements with digital voice assistants

J Festerling, I Siraj - Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 2022 - Springer
Abstract 'Anthropomorphism'is a popular term in the literature on human-technology
engagements, in general, and child-technology engagements, in particular. But what does it …

Search interface design and evaluation

C Liu, YH Liu, J Liu, R Bierig - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2021 - nowpublishers.com
This monograph reviews research on the design and evaluation of search user interfaces
that has been published within the past 10 years. Our primary goal is to integrate state-of-the …

Analyzing and simulating user utterance reformulation in conversational recommender systems

S Zhang, MC Wang, K Balog - Proceedings of the 45th International ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
User simulation has been a cost-effective technique for evaluating conversational
recommender systems. However, building a human-like simulator is still an open challenge …

Managing tasks across the work–life boundary: Opportunities, challenges, and directions

AC Williams, S Iqbal, J Kiseleva, RW White - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Task management tools allow people to record, track, and manage task-related information
across their work and personal contexts. As work contexts have shifted amid the COVID-19 …

Alexa, what are you? Exploring primary school children's ontological perceptions of digital voice assistants in open interactions

J Festerling, I Siraj - Human Development, 2020 - karger.com
Today's children grow up in an environment that is increasingly characterized by digital
voice assistants (DVAs), such as Alexa, Siri, or the Google Assistant. This paper argues that …

App usage on-the-move: Context-and commute-aware next app prediction

Y Kang, MS Rahaman, Y Ren, M Sanderson… - Pervasive and Mobile …, 2022 - Elsevier
The proliferation of digital devices and connectivity enables people to work anywhere,
anytime, even while they are on the move. While mobile applications have become …

Rebalancing worker initiative and AI initiative in future work: Four task dimensions

J He, D Piorkowski, M Muller, K Brimijoin… - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Organizations have recently begun to deploy conversational task assistants that collaborate
with knowledge workers to partially automate their work tasks. These assistants evolved out …

A Bottom-Up End-User Intelligent Assistant Approach to Empower Gig Workers against AI Inequality

TJJ Li, Y Lu, J Clark, M Chen, V Cox, M Jiang… - Proceedings of the 1st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The growing inequality in gig work between workers and platforms has become a critical
social issue as gig work plays an increasingly prominent role in the future of work. The AI …

Adapting generative information retrieval systems to users, tasks, and scenarios

JR Trippas, D Spina, F Scholer - Information Access in the Era of …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Generative Information Retrieval (GenIR) signifies an advancement in Information
Retrieval (IR). GenIR encourages more sophisticated, conversational responses to search …