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Examining Humanness as a Metaphor to Design Voice User Interfaces
Desai, Smit; DUBIEL, Mateusz; LEIVA, Luis A.
2024In Proceedings of the 6th Conference on ACM Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2024
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Keywords :
Conversational Agents; Design; Metaphors; Personas; Voice User Interfaces; Conversational agents; Design metaphors; Metaphor; Natural interactions; Persona; Sociotechnical; Teachers'; User perceptions; Voice user interface; Voice user interface design; Human-Computer Interaction; Software
Abstract :
[en] 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 challenges that might impede long-term engagement. This paper explores an alternative approach to navigate these challenges - incorporating non-human metaphors in VUI design. We report on a study with 240 participants examining the effects of human versus non-human metaphors on user perceptions within health and finance domains. Results indicate a preference for the human metaphor (doctor) over the non-human (health encyclopedia) in health contexts for its perceived enjoyability and likeability. In finance, however, user perceptions do not significantly differ between human (financial advisor) and non-human (calculator) metaphors. Importantly, our research reveals that the explicit awareness of a metaphor's use influences adoption intentions, with a marked preference for non-human metaphors when their metaphorical nature is not disclosed. These findings highlight context-specific conversation design strategies required in integrating non-human metaphors into VUI design, suggesting tradeoffs and design considerations that could enhance user engagement and adoption.
Disciplines :
Computer science
Author, co-author :
Desai, Smit ;  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States ; Northeastern University, United States
DUBIEL, Mateusz  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Computer Science (DCS)
LEIVA, Luis A.  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Computer Science (DCS)
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Examining Humanness as a Metaphor to Design Voice User Interfaces
Publication date :
08 July 2024
Event name :
ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2024
Event place :
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Event date :
08-07-2024 => 10-07-2024
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Proceedings of the 6th Conference on ACM Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2024
Publisher :
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN/EAN :
9798400705113
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
European Projects :
HE - 101071147 - SYMBIOTIK - Context-aware adaptive visualizations for critical decision making
FnR Project :
FNR15722813 - BANANA - Brainsourcing For Affective Attention Estimation, 2021 (01/02/2022-31/01/2025) - Luis Leiva
Funders :
European Innovation Council Pathfinder program
Horizon 2020 FET program of the European Union
European Union
European Union
Funding text :
Research supported by the Horizon 2020 FET program of the European Union through the ERA-NET Cofund funding (grant CHISTERA- 20-BCI-001) and the European Innovation Council Pathfinder program (SYMBIOTIK project, grant 101071147).
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