Popular messaging platforms such as Slack have given rise to thousands of applications (or
bots) that users can engage with individually or as a group. In this paper, we study the use of …

Popular messaging platforms such as Slack have given rise to hundreds of chatbots that
users can engage with individually or as a group. We present a Wizard of Oz study on the …

Conversational search presents opportunities to support users in their search activities to
improve the effectiveness and efficiency of search while reducing their cognitive load …

Chatbots and conversational assistants are becoming increasingly popular. However, for
information seeking scenarios, these systems still have very limited conversational abilities …

The popularity of messaging platforms such as Slack has given rise to thousands of different
chatbots that users can engage with individually or as a group. The proposed dissertation …

In the last decade, conversational search has attracted considerable attention. However,
most research has focused on systems that can support a\emph {single} searcher. In this …

We describe a Wizard of Oz (WoZ) system, a WebApp, which we use to study how a
conversational search system should take the initiative when engaging with users during …

This paper discusses the potential for creating academic resources (tools, data, and
evaluation approaches) to support research in conversational search, by focusing on …

Collaborative and co-located information access is becoming increasingly common.
However, fairly little attention has been devoted to the design of ubiquitous computing …

We conducted a laboratory-based observational study where pairs of people performed
search tasks communicating verbally. Examination of the discourse allowed commonly used …