Outputs (2)

"Do animals have accents?": Talking with agents in multi-party conversation (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., & Sharples, S. (2017, February). "Do animals have accents?": Talking with agents in multi-party conversation. Presented at 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017), Portland, Oregon, USA

In this paper we unpack the use of conversational agents, or so-called intelligent personal assistants (IPAs), in multi- party conversation amongst a group of friends while they are socialising in a café. IPAs such as Siri or Google Now can be found... Read More about "Do animals have accents?": Talking with agents in multi-party conversation.

Using mobile phones in pub talk (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., & Sharples, S. Using mobile phones in pub talk. Presented at 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW ’16)

We present the findings from a study of how people interleave mobile phone use with conversation in pubs. Our findings, informed by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, unpack the interactional methods through which groups of people in pubs oc... Read More about Using mobile phones in pub talk.