David Kirk

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Long-Term Value of Social Robots through the Eyes of Expert Users

Socially-enabled digital technologies have attracted academic interest for decades, with recent commercial examples of Siri and Alexa, capturing public attention. However, despite ubiquitous visions of a robotic future, very few fully-fledged social robots are currently available to consumers. To improve their designs…

CHI '193rd AuthorVoice User Interface (VUI) Design +2

Voice as a Design Material: Sociophonetic Inspired Design Strategies in Human-Computer Interaction

While there is a renewed interest in voice user interfaces (VUI) in HCI, little attention has been paid to the design of VUI voice output beyond intelligibility and naturalness. We draw on the field of sociophonetics - the study of the social factors that influence the production and perception of speech - to highligh…

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