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 …

HCI research has explored AI as a design material, suggesting that designers can envision
AI's design opportunities to improve UX. Recent research claimed that enterprise …

Voice-Activated Personal Assistants (VAPAs)-like Apple Siri and Amazon Alexa-have rapidly
become common features on mobile devices and in homes of millions of people around the …

The evolution of designing interactive interfaces has been rather incremental over the past
few decades, largely focused on graphical user interfaces (GUIs), even as these extended …

Advances in voice technology and voice user interfaces (VUIs)--such as Alexa, Siri, and
Google Home--have opened up the potential for many new types of interaction. However …

Intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs) like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant have become
increasingly popular in recent years, and research into the topic is growing accordingly. A …

The popularity of task-oriented chatbots is constantly growing, but smooth conversational
progress with them remains profoundly challenging. In recent years, researchers have …

As Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) become widely popular, designers must handle new
usability challenges. However, compared to other established domains such as Graphical …

Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are increasing in popularity. However, their invisible nature with
no or limited visuals makes it difficult for users to interact with unfamiliar VUIs. We analyze …

Voice user interfaces (VUIs) are rapidly increasing in popularity in the consumer space. This
leads to a concurrent explosion of available applications for such devices, with many …