When a smart device talks, what should its voice sound like? Voice-enabled devices are
becoming a ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives. Simultaneously, speech synthesis …

Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are becoming ubiquitously available, being embedded both
into everyday mobility via smartphones, and into the life of the home via'assistant'devices …

The rapid, widespread implementation of artificial intelligence technologies in workplaces
has implications for business communication. In this article, the authors describe current …

We are interested in increasing the ability of groups to collaborate efficiently by leveraging
new advances in AI and Conversational Agent (CA) technology. Given the longstanding …

Although interactive technologies increasingly shape teamwork, their relationship with team
effectiveness (inputs, processes, emergent states, and outputs) remains unclear. To provide …

Collocated, face-to-face teamwork remains a pervasive mode of working, which is hard to
replicate online. Team members' embodied, multimodal interaction with each other and …

Conversational agents stand to play an important role in supporting behavior change and
well-being in many domains. With users able to interact with conversational agents through …

Many consumers now rely on different forms of voice assistants, both stand-alone devices
and those built into smartphones. Currently, these systems react to specific wake-words …

Voice assistants have become hugely popular in the home as domestic and entertainment
devices. Recently, there has been a move towards developing them for work settings. For …

Despite the advances and ubiquity of digital communication media such as
videoconferencing and virtual reality, they remain oblivious to the rich intentions expressed …