Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) are widely available on devices such as smartphones.
However, most people do not use them regularly. Previous research has studied the …

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the human race has gradually become a
norm. AI entails technology assemblages such as machine learning, natural language …

Purpose Artificially intelligent (AI) assistant-enabled smart speaker not only can provide
assistance by navigating the massive amount of product and brand information on the …

This paper explores durational aspects of pauses, gaps and overlaps in three different
conversational corpora with a view to challenge claims about precision timing in turn-taking …

We are entering an era of AI-Mediated Communication (AI-MC) where interpersonal
communication is not only mediated by technology, but is optimized, augmented, or …

Large language models are increasingly mediating, modifying, and even generating
messages for users, but the receivers of these messages may not be aware of the …

Intelligent agents interacting with humans through conversation (such as a robot, embodied
conversational agent, or chatbot) need to receive feedback from the human to make sure …

Virtual assistants are increasingly common on commercial websites. In view of the benefits
they offer to businesses for improving navigation and interaction with the consumers …

We present a general model and conceptual framework for specifying architectures for
incremental processing in dialogue systems, in particular with respect to the topology of the …

User satisfaction depicts the effectiveness of a system from the user's perspective.
Understanding and predicting user satisfaction is vital for the design of user-oriented …