Hey ASR system! Why aren't you more inclusive? Automatic speech recognition systems' bias and proposed bias mitigation techniques. A literature review

MK Ngueajio, G Washington - International Conference on Human …, 2022 - Springer
Speech is the fundamental means of communication between humans. The advent of AI and
sophisticated speech technologies have led to the rapid proliferation of human to computer …

Anthropomorphizing technology: a conceptual review of anthropomorphism research and how it relates to children's engagements with digital voice assistants

J Festerling, I Siraj - Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 2022 - Springer
Abstract 'Anthropomorphism'is a popular term in the literature on human-technology
engagements, in general, and child-technology engagements, in particular. But what does it …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the accessibility of voice assistants with impaired users: mixed methods study

F Masina, V Orso, P Pluchino, G Dainese… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - jmir.org
Background Voice assistants allow users to control appliances and functions of a smart
home by simply uttering a few words. Such systems hold the potential to significantly help …

Metaphors in voice user interfaces: a slippery fish

S Desai, M Twidale - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 2023 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Exploring young children's engagement in joint reading with a conversational agent

Y Xu, M Warschauer - Proceedings of the interaction design and children …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Joint book reading is a highly routinized activity that is nearly universal among families.
Conversational agents (CAs) can potentially act as joint-reading partners by engaging …

Exploring chart question answering for blind and low vision users

J Kim, A Srinivasan, NW Kim, YS Kim - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Data visualizations can be complex or involve numerous data points, making them
impractical to navigate using screen readers alone. Question answering (QA) systems have …

Blind leading the sighted: drawing design insights from blind users towards more productivity-oriented voice interfaces

A Abdolrahmani, KM Storer, ARM Roy… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Voice-activated personal assistants (VAPAs) are becoming smaller, cheaper, and more
accurate, such that they are now prevalent in homes (eg, Amazon Echo, Sonos One) and on …

Keep it short: A comparison of voice assistants' response behavior

G Haas, M Rietzler, M Jones, E Rukzio - … of the 2022 CHI Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Voice assistants (VAs) are present in homes, smartphones, and cars. They allow users to
perform tasks without graphical or tactile user interfaces, as they are designed for natural …

Firefox voice: An open and extensible voice assistant built upon the web

J Cambre, AC Williams, A Razi, I Bicking… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Voice assistants are fundamentally changing the way we access information. However,
voice assistants still leverage little about the web beyond simple search results. We …

" Nobody speaks that fast!" An empirical study of speech rate in conversational agents for people with vision impairments

D Choi, D Kwak, M Cho, S Lee - … of the 2020 CHI conference on human …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The number of people with vision impairments using Conversational Agents (CAs) has
increased because of the potential of this technology to support them. As many visually …