Background Chronic and mental health conditions are increasingly prevalent worldwide. As
devices in our everyday lives offer more and more voice-based self-service, voice-based …

Voice Recognition Systems (VRSs) employ deep learning for speech recognition and
speaker recognition. They have been widely deployed in various real-world applications …

Thanks to their conversational capabilities, smart speaker-based voice assistants are
gaining attention for their potential to support the aging population, though the empirical …

Black older adults from lower socioeconomic environments are often neglected in health
technology interventions. Voice assistants have a potential to make healthcare more …

AI-based systems, and especially voice-based AI systems, are gaining popularity and set
novel requirements for end users. Research has provided first approaches postulating and …

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 explore a range of different metaphors used for Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) by
designers, end-users, manufacturers, and researchers using a novel framework derived …

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 …

In this paper, we present Health Buddy, a voice agent integrated into commercially available
Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) to support informal self-regulated learning (SRL) of health …

There is increasing concern that how researchers currently define and measure fairness is
inadequate. Recent calls push to move beyond traditional concepts of fairness and consider …