Background Health care and well-being are 2 main interconnected application areas of
conversational agents (CAs). There is a significant increase in research, development, and …

Advances in voice technology and voice user interfaces (VUIs)--such as Alexa, Siri, and
Google Home--have opened up the potential for many new types of interaction. However …

Conversational agents have increasingly been deployed in healthcare applications.
However, significant challenges remain in developing this technology. Recent research in …

This paper considers unifying research on conversational user interfaces and recommender
systems. Studies on conversational user interfaces (CUIs) typically examine how …

How does the presence of an audience influence the social interaction with a conversational
system in a physical space? To answer this question, we analyzed data from an art exhibit …

As CUIs become more prevalent in both academic research and the commercial market, it
becomes more essential to design usable and adoptable CUIs. Though research on the …

The task of designing unequivocal communication between autonomous vehicles and
humans is important, considering the supposed daily interaction which might take place in …

While interest in AI conversational agents has grown rapidly in recent years, creating agents
capable of holding recipient-specific conversations remains a challenge. In other words, an …

Voice user interfaces (VUI) have been increasingly used in everyday settings and they are
growing in popularity. These interfaces have predominantly eyes-free and hands-free …

As voice user interfaces (VUIs) rapidly transform the landscape of human–computer
interaction, their potential to revolutionize user engagement is becoming increasingly …