Katie Seaborn

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Operationalizing Perceptions of Agent Gender: Foundations and Guidelines

The “gender” of intelligent agents, virtual characters, social robots, and other agentic machines has emerged as a fundamental topic in studies of people's interactions with computers. Perceptions of agent gender can help explain user attitudes and behaviours—from preferences to toxicity to stereotyping—across a varie…

CHI '261st AuthorGame UX & Player Behavior +2

Radical Gender Neutrality: Agender Euphoria in Gaming and Play Experiences

Agender euphoria is a new term representing the powerful feelings of happiness, joy, and contentment derived from experiences in gender-free embodiments, spaces, and activities. People with and without agender and adjacent identities (e.g., genderless, gender-free, non-binary, gender-apathetic) may have such experienc…

CHI '262nd AuthorDark Patterns Recognition +2

Access Over Deception: Fighting Deceptive Patterns through Accessibility

Deceptive patterns, i.e. dark patterns and manipulative user interfaces (UI), are a widely used design method that aims to manipulate users to act against their own interests. These patterns may particularly influence people with less education, visual impairments, and older adults. Yet, access is a critical feature o…

CUI '252nd AuthorVoice User Interface (VUI) Design +2

Hearing Ambiguity: Exploring Beyond-Gender Impressions of Artificial Ambiguous Voices

Voice perception plays a fundamental role in all types of interactions, from human-to-human communication to human-technology interaction. When it comes to technology, we sometimes have the option to choose the type of voice we want to hear. But why is the default (almost) always a feminine or masculine voice? In this…

CHI '252nd AuthorIntelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.) +2

Inter(sectional) Alia(s): Ambiguity in Voice Agent Identity via Intersectional Japanese Self-Referents

Conversational agents that mimic people have raised questions about the ethics of anthropomorphizing machines with human social identity cues. Critics have also questioned assumptions of identity neutrality in humanlike agents. Recent work has revealed that intersectional Japanese pronouns can elicit complex and somet…

CHI '252nd AuthorIntelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.) +1

Super Kawaii Vocalics: Amplifying the “Cute” Factor in Computer Voice

"Kawaii" is the Japanese concept of cute, which carries sociocultural connotations related to social identities and emotional responses. Yet, virtually all work to date has focused on the visual side of kawaii, including in studies of computer agents and social robots. In pursuit of formalizing the new science of kawa…

CUI '241st AuthorVoice User Interface (VUI) Design +1

Cross-Cultural Validation of Partner Models for Voice User Interfaces

Recent research has begun to assess people's perceptions of voice user interfaces (VUIs) as dialogue partners, termed partner models. Current self-report measures are only available in English, limiting research to English-speaking users. To improve the diversity of user samples and contexts that inform partner modell…

CHI '242nd AuthorHonorable MentionMultilingual & Cross-Cultural Voice Interaction +2

Silver-Tongued and Sundry: Exploring Intersectional Pronouns with ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a conversational agent built on a large language model. Trained on a significant portion of human output, ChatGPT can mimic people to a degree. As such, we need to consider what social identities ChatGPT simulates (or can be designed to simulate). In this study, we explored the case of identity simulation t…

CHI '241st AuthorRole-Playing & Narrative Games +2

Play Across Boundaries: Exploring Cross-Cultural Maldaimonic Game Experiences

Maldaimonic game experiences occur when people engage in personally fulfilling play through egocentric, destructive, and/or exploitative acts. Initial qualitative work verified this orientation and experiential construct for English-speaking Westerners. In this comparative mixed methods study, we explored whether and…

CSCW '235th+ AuthorMethods

Wizundry: A Cooperative Wizard of Oz Platform for Simulating Future Speech-based Interfaces with Multiple Wizards

Wizard of Oz (WoZ) as a prototyping method has been used to simulate intelligent user interfaces, particularly for speech-based systems. However, as our societies' expectations on artificial intelligence (AI) grows, the question remains whether a single Wizard is sufficient for it to simulate smarter systems and more…

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