Early conversational agents (CAs) focused on dyadic human-AI interaction between humans
and the CAs, followed by the increasing popularity of polyadic human-AI interaction, in …

The growing prevalence of interactions between humans and machines, coupled with the
rapid development of intelligent and human-like features in technology, necessitates …

Bringing positive experiences to users is one of the key goals when designing
conversational agents (CAs). Yet we still lack an understanding of users' underlying needs …

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 …

Abstract Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI) systems and Intelligent Personal
Assistants (IPA), such as Alexa, Cortana, Google Home and Siri are becoming ubiquitous in …

In this paper, I argue that AI-powered voice assistants, just as all technologies, actively
mediate our interpretative structures, including values. I show this by explaining the …

Language technologies have a racial bias, committing greater errors for Black users than for
white users. However, little work has evaluated what effect these disparate error rates have …

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 …

Smart offices are dynamically evolving spaces meant to enhance employees' efficiency, but
also to create a healthy and proactive working environment. In a competitive business world …

Virtual personal assistants (VPAs) are becoming so widely available that considerations are
being made as to whether to begin including them in self-driving vehicles. While research …