"All in the Same Boat": Tradeoffs of Voice Assistant Ownership for Mixed-Visual-Ability Families

The Last Decade of HCI Research on Children and Voice-based Conversational Agents

“…For example, one might argue that the theme "The Use and Role of CAs in the Home and in the Family" can overlap with the theme "Supporting Children's Play", since children often play when they are at home and with their family. The coders faced this dilemma in regards to the work by Storer and colleagues Storer et al [125]. We grouped only those papers in the former category which focused on the the impact CAs can have on family members and family dynamics and/or general use of device by family members while they are at home, whereas the primary focus of the papers in the latter category was on one specific activity, i.e., children's play.…”

“…We grouped only those papers in the former category which focused on the the impact CAs can have on family members and family dynamics and/or general use of device by family members while they are at home, whereas the primary focus of the papers in the latter category was on one specific activity, i.e., children's play. While [125] refers to opportunities for children and parents to play games together, the main focus of the paper was to understand how CAs get integrated in homes of mixed-visual-ability families. As a result, we allocated [125] under the theme of 'The Use and Role of CAs in the Home and in the Family."…”

“…Voice-based technologies, often called "conversational AI", "dialogue systems", "virtual assistants" or "conversational agents" [80,99,109], have increasingly been adopted by children. Voice-based Conversational Agents (CAs) are used by children for a range of purposes, including to conduct small talk or express emotions [52], to support learning and reading [51,148], and to foster communication with other children and other members of the household [13,125].…”

Cooking in the dark: a mixed reality empathy experience for the embodiment of blindness

“…As a means to interface the smart-home elements of the game towards the virtually blind main character, a digital voice assistant was implemented. According to recent studies, people with disabilities -particularly the BVI -have been widely benefited by the use of commercially available virtual assistants in daily tasks [21]. Specifically in MR experiences, preliminary results indicated that the presence of a speech-based virtual assistant improved user performance in the execution of MR activities [23].…”

“…In XR in Games Workshop, together with IMX 2021: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences. June [21][22][23]2021. NY, USA.…”