Smit Desai

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Like My Aunt Dorothy: Effects of Conversational Styles on Perceptions

Little research has investigated the design of conversational styles of voice assistants (VA) for adults in their later adulthood with varying personalities. In this Wizard of Oz experiment, 34 middle-aged (50 to 64 years old) and 24 older adults (65 to 80 years old) participated in a user study at a simulated home, i…

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

Examining Humanness as a Metaphor to Design Voice User Interfaces

Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) increasingly leverage `humanness' as a foundational design metaphor, adopting roles like `assistants,' `teachers,' and `secretaries' to foster natural interactions. Yet, this approach can sometimes misalign user trust and reinforce societal stereotypes, leading to socio-technical challenge…

CUI '231st AuthorConversational Chatbots +1

“A Painless Way to Learn:” Designing an Interactive Storytelling Voice User Interface to Engage Older Adults in Informal Health Information Learning

We present “Mystery Agent,” an interactive storytelling voice user interface (VUI) equipped with self-regulated learning strategies to deliver informal health-related learning to older adults through a murder mystery story. We conducted a mixed methods user study with 10 older adults to evaluate Mystery Agent, using u…

CHI '231st AuthorVoice User Interface (VUI) Design +2

OK Google, Let’s Learn: Using Voice User Interfaces for Informal Self-Regulated Learning of Health Topics among Younger and Older Adults

In this paper, we present Health Buddy, a voice agent integrated into commercially available Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) to support informal self-regulated learning (SRL) of health-related topics through multiple learning strategies and examine the efficacy of Health Buddy on learning outcomes for younger and older a…

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