On the design of and interaction with conversational agents: An organizing and assessing review of human-computer interaction research

S Diederich, AB Brendel, S Morana… - Journal of the Association …, 2022 - aisel.aisnet.org
Conversational agents (CAs), described as software with which humans interact through
natural language, have increasingly attracted interest in both academia and practice …

Exploring older adults' perception and use of smart speaker-based voice assistants: A longitudinal study

S Kim, A Choudhury - Computers in Human Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
Thanks to their conversational capabilities, smart speaker-based voice assistants are
gaining attention for their potential to support the aging population, though the empirical …

Deconstructing search tasks in interactive information retrieval: A systematic review of task dimensions and predictors

J Liu - Information Processing & Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Increasingly, users are interacting with information retrieval (IR) systems with the goal of
addressing complex, ill-defined search tasks. As a result, the interest in deconstructing and …

" Phantom Friend" or" Just a Box with Information" Personification and Ontological Categorization of Smart Speaker-based Voice Assistants by Older Adults

A Pradhan, L Findlater, A Lazar - Proceedings of the ACM on human …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
As voice-based conversational agents such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant move
into our homes, researchers have studied the corresponding privacy implications …

Use of intelligent voice assistants by older adults with low technology use

A Pradhan, A Lazar, L Findlater - ACM Transactions on Computer …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Voice assistants embodied in smart speakers (eg, Amazon Echo, Google Home) enable
voice-based interaction that does not necessarily rely on expertise with mobile or desktop …

" Person, Shoes, Tree. Is the Person Naked?" What People with Vision Impairments Want in Image Descriptions

A Stangl, MR Morris, D Gurari - Proceedings of the 2020 chi conference …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Access to digital images is important to people who are blind or have low vision (BLV). Many
contemporary image description efforts do not take into account this population's nuanced …

Going beyond one-size-fits-all image descriptions to satisfy the information wants of people who are blind or have low vision

A Stangl, N Verma, KR Fleischmann… - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Image descriptions are how people who are blind or have low vision (BLV) access
information depicted within images. To our knowledge, no prior work has examined how a …

Investigating users' preferences and expectations for always-listening voice assistants

M Tabassum, T Kosiński, A Frik, N Malkin… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Many consumers now rely on different forms of voice assistants, both stand-alone devices
and those built into smartphones. Currently, these systems react to specific wake-words …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring how older adults use a smart speaker–based voice assistant in their first interactions: Qualitative study

S Kim - JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2021 - mhealth.jmir.org
Background: Smart speaker–based voice assistants promise support for the aging
population, with the advantages of hands-free and eyes-free interaction modalities to handle …

The effects of anthropomorphism and non-verbal social behaviour in virtual assistants

D Kontogiorgos, A Pereira, O Andersson… - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The adoption of virtual assistants is growing at a rapid pace. However, these assistants are
not optimised to simulate key social aspects of human conversational environments …