Buffer bots: The role of virtual service agents in mitigating negative effects when service fails

S Sands, C Campbell, K Plangger… - Psychology & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, marketers have placed increased reliance upon artificial intelligence (AI)
and, subsequently, the use of virtual agents in customer service contexts is on the rise …

Survey on intelligent chatbots: State-of-the-art and future research directions

EH Almansor, FK Hussain - … software intensive systems: Proceedings of the …, 2020 - Springer
Human-computer interaction (HCI) is an area of interest which plays a major role in
understanding the interaction between humans and machines. Dialogue systems or …

Detectors for safe and reliable llms: Implementations, uses, and limitations

S Achintalwar, AA Garcia, A Anaby-Tavor… - ar** conversational
experiences using platforms such as IBM's Watson Assistant and Facebook Messenger …

Offline and online satisfaction prediction in open-domain conversational systems

JI Choi, A Ahmadvand, E Agichtein - Proceedings of the 28th ACM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Predicting user satisfaction in conversational systems has become critical, as spoken
conversational assistants operate in increasingly complex domains. Online satisfaction …

[PDF][PDF] The dependability of voice on elders' acceptance of humanoid agents

A Esposito, T Amorese, M Cuciniello, MT Riviello… - Interspeech, 2019 - iris.unicampania.it
The research on ambient assistive technology is concerned with features humanoid agents
should show in order to gain user acceptance. However, differently aged groups may have …

Where and why is my bot failing? A visual analytics approach for investigating failures in Chatbot conversation flows

A Yaeli, S Zeltyn - 2021 IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the adoption of AI-powered task-
oriented chatbots by businesses and healthcare organizations. Despite advancements in …