While voice-controllable Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) have become widespread in
recent years, they remain primarily reactive with rather constrained calendaring capabilities …

Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) have become increasingly ubiquitous, yet they remain
primarily reactive, non-personalised, and inscrutable. Moreover, concerns regarding user …

Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) have become ubiquitous through integration into
smartphones, smart speakers, and standalone devices. However, prior studies raised …

Intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) have become widely available, yet they remain
primarily used for discrete, straightforward tasks. By contrast, both user studies and literature …

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) enabled digital assistants to evolve towards
proactive user support. However, expectations as to when and to what extent assistants …

The next major evolutionary stage for voice assistants will be their capability to initiate
interactions by themselves. However, to design proactive interactions, it is crucial to …

Voice assistants have recently achieved remarkable commercial success. However, the
current generation of these devices is typically capable of only reactive interactions. In other …

More and more people tend to use voice assistants on their smartphones, at home or in the
car. These assistants help people to find their way in a foreign city, call their friends or add …

Increasing number of researchers and designers are envisioning a wide range of novel
proactive conversational services for smart speakers such as context-aware reminders and …

Using Personal Assistants (PAs) for tasks in our everyday life is quite common these days.
The PAs (Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa, Google Now, Microsoft Cortana etc.) help us to set …