Designing a virtual assistant for in-car child entertainment

Gordon, Michal; Breazeal, Cynthia

doi:10.1145/2771839.2771916

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“…Text entry [9,38,67,71,82,85,93] Application control [22,90,92] Speech analysis [26,36,52,68,72] Spoken output [28,31,66,77] Conversational Agents [33,43,45,48,55,61,96] Probes [18,74] Domains Education [22,43,52,61,68,77] Health & Well-being [26,28,36,71,72,92,94] Transportation [33,38,55,67,90] Gaming [18,26,36,52,66,…”

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Conversational User Interfaces on Mobile Devices

Jaber

2020

Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

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Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) on mobile devices are the most accessible and widespread examples of voice-based interaction in the wild. This paper presents a survey of mobile conversation user interface research since the commercial deployment of Apple's Siri, the first readily available consumer CUI. We present and discuss Text Entry & Typing, Application Control, Speech Analysis, Conversational Agents, Spoken Output, & Probes as the prevalent themes of research in this area. We also discuss this body of work in relation to the domains of Health & Well-being, Education, Games, and Transportation. We conclude this paper with a discussion on Multi-modal CUIs, Conversational Repair, and the implications for CUIs of greater access to the context of use. CCS CONCEPTS• Computing methodologies → Speech recognition; • Humancentered computing → Interaction techniques; Smartphones; • General and reference → Surveys and overviews.

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“…Gordon et al [33] introduced a parental driving entertainment virtual agent called PANDA connecting two tablets, one in the front, and one in the back of the car. The agent supports the parent driver via a CUI to mediate interaction with children in the back seat.…”

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Conversational User Interfaces on Mobile Devices

Jaber

2020

Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

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“…A number of papers provide evidence that speech is a promising mode of computer interaction for children (e.g., [41]). Proposed applications of such systems are as diverse as play/entertainment (e.g., [5,22,28,32,33]), social skill practice (e.g., [15]), literacy education (e.g., [21,39,45]), and incar entertainment (e.g., [18]). However, spoken dialog systems for children is an area with significant potential for improvement.…”

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“…While there has been substantial previous work on speech interfaces for children's entertainment (e.g., [18,22,32,33]), we focus on informational queries as the specific context of interaction with speech interfaces. There are two reasons for this decision.…”

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Children asking questions

Yarosh

Thompson

Watson

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Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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The pervasive availability of voice assistants may support children in finding answers to informational queries by removing the literacy requirements of text search (e.g., typing, spelling). However, most such systems are not designed for the specific needs and preferences of children and may struggle with understanding the intent of their questions. In our investigation, we observed 87 children and 27 adults interacting with three Wizard-of-Oz speech interfaces to arrive at answers to questions that required reformulation. We found that many children and some adults required help to reach an effective question reformulation. We report the common types of reformulations (both effective and ineffective ones). We also compared three versions of speech interfaces with different approaches to referring to itself (personification) and to the participant (naming personalization). We found that children preferred personified interfaces, but naming personalization did not affect preference. We connect our findings to implications for design of speech systems for families.Expanding Pronouns in Question -replacing the nonspecific pronoun in a question with a specific noun. Examples:Child expands the pronoun "he" to "How much did Reggie the Pig weigh?"

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“…To fulfill these goals, PANDA has a face that appears on either the front-or back-seat tablets, can produce facial expressions, recognize speech and interact with the driver and passengers in the car in a socially engaging way [10].…”

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Component-Driven Development in Modern Virtual Assistants: A Mapping Study

Parizi¹,

Shahi²

2018

JSW

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Virtual assistants are becoming more common today as access to this technology has become cheaper and more affordable to the common consumer. As a result of this increase in demand, a component based software engineering approach may be more practical in the future development of these systems. This article presents a study of the current state of the research on component based software engineering and service principles in virtual assistants. The main motivation for this research is that there just is not any comparative study on how component-driven development might benefit our virtual assistants, especially those with voice interaction. This study is limited to papers that go into detail about the development of intelligent personal assistants and the entities that comprise them. Due to the nature of virtual assistants, we initially assumed that many of them would primarily be made of various software components. However, our results show that the development of virtual assistants is actually more complex than we initially believed, and that a more consolidated approach is necessary to define the best method of development for virtual assistants.

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Designing a virtual assistant for in-car child entertainment

Cited by 15 publications

References 11 publications

Conversational User Interfaces on Mobile Devices

Conversational User Interfaces on Mobile Devices

Children asking questions

Component-Driven Development in Modern Virtual Assistants: A Mapping Study

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