Conversational AI (CAI) systems which encompass voice-and text-based assistants are on
the rise and have been largely integrated into people's everyday lives. Despite their …

Smart Home Personal Assistants (SPA) are an emerging innovation that is changing the
means by which home users interact with technology. However, several elements expose …

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 …

Smart Home Personal Assistants (SPA) have a complex ecosystem that enables them to
carry out various tasks on behalf of the user with just voice commands. SPA capabilities are …

The present study compares the influence of text‐based recommendations; traditionally
known as online consumer reviews, and the influence of voice‐based recommendations …

The next major evolutionary stage for voice assistants will be their capability to initiate
interactions by themselves. However, to design proactive interactions, it is crucial to …

People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. Wearables that use
information capture and retrieval for memory augmentation can help but can be disruptive …

Although voice assistants are increasingly being adopted by older adults, we lack empirical
research on how they interact with these devices for health information seeking. Also, prior …

We present a dialogue elicitation study to assess how users envision conversations with a
perfect voice assistant (VA). In an online survey, N= 205 participants were prompted with …

In this paper, we studied people's smart home privacy-protective behaviors (SH-PPBs), to
gain a better understanding of their privacy management do's and don'ts in this context. We …