Speech interfaces are growing in popularity. Through a review of 99 research papers this
work maps the trends, themes, findings and methods of empirical research on speech …

When people are engaged in social interaction, they can repeat aspects of each other's
communicative behavior, such as words or gestures. This kind of behavioral alignment has …

Conversational agents promise conversational interaction but fail to deliver. Efforts often
emulate functional rules from human speech, without considering key characteristics that …

Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) are widely available on devices such as smartphones.
However, most people do not use them regularly. Previous research has studied the …

Linguistic interaction between two people is the fundamental form of communication, yet
almost all research in language use focuses on isolated speakers and listeners. In this …

We describe a “centipede's dilemma” that faces the sciences of human interaction. Research
on human interaction has been involved in extensive theoretical debate, although the vast …

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 …

Humanness is core to speech interface design. Yet little is known about how users
conceptualise perceptions of humanness and how people define their interaction with …

Task-solving in dialogue depends on the convergence of the situation models held by the
dialogue partners. The Interactive Alignment Model (Pickering & Garrod, 2004) suggests that …

Background Health care and well-being are 2 main interconnected application areas of
conversational agents (CAs). There is a significant increase in research, development, and …