Yiqian Yang

Toward Enabling Natural Conversation with Older Adults via the Design of LLM-Powered Voice Agents that Support Interruptions and Backchannels

Voice agents can construct meaningful conversations with older adults to offer various benefits, such as providing emotional companionship and assisting with memory recall. However, such conversations often follow the simple turn-taking pattern and lack interruption and backchannel of natural human conversation. Previ…