The last decade of HCI research on children and voice-based conversational agents

R Garg, H Cui, S Seligson, B Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Voice-based Conversational Agents (CAs) are increasingly being used by children. Through
a review of 38 research papers, this work maps trends, themes, and methods of empirical …

Storybuddy: A human-ai collaborative chatbot for parent-child interactive storytelling with flexible parental involvement

Z Zhang, Y Xu, Y Wang, B Yao, D Ritchie… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Despite its benefits for children's skill development and parent-child bonding, many parents
do not often engage in interactive storytelling by having story-related dialogues with their …

Data-Driven Technology for Children's Health and Wellbeing: A Systematic Review

Z Su, Y Chen - … and Trends® in Human-Computer Interaction, 2024 - nowpublishers.com
As data-driven health technologies such as mobile health apps, wearable devices, and
smart medical devices advance and become more pervasive, the datafication of personal …

Same benefits, different communication patterns: Comparing Children's reading with a conversational agent vs. a human partner

Y Xu, D Wang, P Collins, H Lee, M Warschauer - Computers & Education, 2021 - Elsevier
Storybook reading accompanied by adult-guided conversation provides a stimulating
context for children's language development. Conversational agents powered by artificial …

Stand by me: Analyzing the tourist–intelligent voice assistant relationship quality

SMC Loureiro, A Japutra, S Molinillo… - International Journal of …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to explore tourist perceived value and attachment to intelligent
voice assistants (IVAs) as antecedents of the quality of the human–IVA relationship in the …

Empowering dyads of older adults with mild cognitive impairment and their care partners using conversational agents

T Zubatiy, KL Vickers, N Mathur, ED Mynatt - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Conversational agents (CAs) such as Google Home or Alexa offer empowering
opportunities for dyads composed of older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and …

AI as social glue: uncovering the roles of deep generative AI during social music composition

M Suh, E Youngblom, M Terry, CJ Cai - … of the 2021 CHI conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Recent advances in deep generative neural networks have made it possible for artificial
intelligence to actively collaborate with human beings in co-creating novel content (eg …

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 …

Mathemyths: leveraging large language models to teach mathematical language through Child-AI co-creative storytelling

C Zhang, X Liu, K Ziska, S Jeon, CL Yu… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Mathematical language is a cornerstone of a child's mathematical development, and
children can effectively acquire this language through storytelling with a knowledgeable and …

" Off Script:" Design Opportunities Emerging from Long-Term Social Robot Interactions In-the-Wild

JE Michaelis, B Cagiltay, R Ibtasar… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Social robots are becoming increasingly prevalent in the real world. Unsupervised user
interactions in a natural and familiar setting, such as the home, can reveal novel design …