Heuristic evaluation of conversational agents

R Langevin, RJ Lordon, T Avrahami… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Conversational interfaces have risen in popularity as businesses and users adopt a range of
conversational agents, including chatbots and voice assistants. Although guidelines have …

Usability evaluation of artificial intelligence-based voice assistants: The case of Amazon Alexa

DS Zwakman, D Pal, C Arpnikanondt - SN Computer Science, 2021 - Springer
Currently, the use of voice-assistants has been on the rise, but a user-centric usability
evaluation of these devices is a must for ensuring their success. System Usability Scale …

Engaging students with a chatbot-based academic advising system

MA Kuhail, H Al Katheeri, J Negreiros… - … Journal of Human …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Advising systems automate aspects of academic advising. Traditionally, advising systems
focused on specialized tasks such as course selection. Recently, chatbot-based advising …

User experience with conversational agent: A systematic review of assessment methods

C Tubin, JP Mazuco Rodriguez… - Behaviour & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Conversational agents are becoming popular for providing a more natural and realistic user
experience. New studies have become significant to understand how to assess this …

Challenges and Opportunities for the Design of Smart Speakers

T Long, LB Chilton - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.05741, 2023 - arxiv.org
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 …

Creepy assistant: Development and validation of a scale to measure the perceived creepiness of voice assistants

R Phinnemore, M Reza, B Lewis… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Voice assistants have afforded users rich interaction opportunities to access information and
issue commands in a variety of contexts. However, some users feel uneasy or creeped out …

Rambler: Supporting Writing With Speech via LLM-Assisted Gist Manipulation

S Lin, J Warner, JD Zamfirescu-Pereira… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Dictation enables efficient text input on mobile devices. However, writing with speech can
produce disfluent, wordy, and incoherent text and thus requires heavy post-processing. This …

Finding a new voice: Transitioning designers from GUI to VUI design

C Murad, C Munteanu, B R. Cowan… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
As Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) become widely popular, designers must handle new
usability challenges. However, compared to other established domains such as Graphical …

Firefox voice: An open and extensible voice assistant built upon the web

J Cambre, AC Williams, A Razi, I Bicking… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Voice assistants are fundamentally changing the way we access information. However,
voice assistants still leverage little about the web beyond simple search results. We …

Designing voice interfaces: Back to the (curriculum) basics

C Murad, C Munteanu - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
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 …