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NottReal: A Tool for Voice-based Wizard of Oz studies (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., & Valstar, M. (2020). NottReal: A Tool for Voice-based Wizard of Oz studies. In CUI '20: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (1–3). https://doi.org/10.1145/3405755.3406168

We present NottReal, an application designed for simulating Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) in Wizard of Oz studies. We briefly discuss the premise and advantages of the Wizard of Oz method before moving onto introducing the design of the application, w... Read More about NottReal: A Tool for Voice-based Wizard of Oz studies.

What Can I Say?: Effects of Discoverability in VUIs on Task Performance and User Experience (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Kirschthaler, P., Porcheron, M., & Fischer, J. E. (2020). What Can I Say?: Effects of Discoverability in VUIs on Task Performance and User Experience. In CUI '20: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (1–9). https://doi.org/10.1145/3405755.3406119

Discoverability, the ability for users to find and execute features through a user interface, is a recurrent problem with Voice User Interface (VUI) design that makes it difficult for users to understand what commands are supported by a newly encount... Read More about What Can I Say?: Effects of Discoverability in VUIs on Task Performance and User Experience.

New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Fuentes, C., Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., Costanza, E., Verdezoto, N., Herskovic, V., …Takayama, L. (2019). New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3299000

As the IoT is taking hold in the home, in healthcare, factories, and industry, new challenges and approaches arise for HCI research and design. For example, HCI is exploring agency delegation and automation to support the user in managing the deluge... Read More about New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care.

Tracking the Consumption of Home Essentials (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Fuentes, C., Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., Costanza, E., Malik, O., & Ramchurn, S. D. (2019). Tracking the Consumption of Home Essentials. In CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1–13). https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300869

Predictions of people's behaviour increasingly drive interactions with a new generation of IoT services designed to support everyday life in the home, from shopping to heating. Based on the premise that such automation is difficult due to the conting... Read More about Tracking the Consumption of Home Essentials.

Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., Reeves, S., & Sharples, S. (2018). Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life. In CHI '18: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-12). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174214

© 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are becoming ubiquitously available, being embedded both into everyday mobility via smartphones, and into the life of the home via 'assistant' devices. Yet, exactly how use... Read More about Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life.

Talking with conversational agents in collaborative action (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., McGregor, M., Brown, B., Luger, E., Candello, H., & O'Hara, K. (2017). Talking with conversational agents in collaborative action. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3022198.3022666

This one-day workshop intends to bring together both academics and industry practitioners to explore collaborative challenges in speech interaction. Recent improvements in speech recognition and computing power has led to conversational interfaces be... Read More about Talking with conversational agents in collaborative action.

"Do animals have accents?": Talking with agents in multi-party conversation (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., & Sharples, S. (2017). "Do animals have accents?": Talking with agents in multi-party conversation. In CSCW '17 Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing: Proceedings (207-219). https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998298

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.

Interaction between nearby strangers: Serendipity and playfulness (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Paasovaara, S., Lucero, A., Porcheron, M., Paavilainen, J., Aliakseyeu, D., & Olsson, T. (2016). Interaction between nearby strangers: Serendipity and playfulness. In NordiCHI '16: Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (1-3). https://doi.org/10.1145/2971485.2987674

“Nearby strangers” provides an interestingly paradoxical space for interaction design. There are various social norms, cultural practices, and privacy concerns hindering interaction with nearby strangers, but by ignoring them, people constantly miss... Read More about Interaction between nearby strangers: Serendipity and playfulness.

Collaborative use of mobile devices to curate sources of inspiration (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Lucero, A., Porcheron, M., & Fischer, J. E. (2016). Collaborative use of mobile devices to curate sources of inspiration. In MobileHCI '16: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct (611-616). https://doi.org/10.1145/2957265.2961830

We demonstrate a prototype mobile application designed to support individually collecting personal sources of inspiration on mobile phones, and then the sharing and curating of these collected materials in a face-to-face situation.

Interaction techniques for mobile collocation (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Lucero, A., Quigley, A., Rekimoto, J., Roudaut, A., Porcheron, M., & Serrano, M. (2016). Interaction techniques for mobile collocation. In MobileHCI '16: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct (1117-1120). https://doi.org/10.1145/2957265.2962651

Research on mobile collocated interactions has been exploring situations where collocated users engage in collaborative activities using their personal mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets), thus going from personal/individual toward shared/... Read More about Interaction techniques for mobile collocation.

Proxemics mobile collocated interactions (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Porcheron, M., Lucero, A., Quigley, A., Marquardt, N., Clawson, J., & O'Hara, K. (2016). Proxemics mobile collocated interactions. . https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2856471

Recent research on mobile collocated interactions has been looking at situations in which collocated users engage in collaborative activities using their mobile devices. However, existing practices fail to fully account for the culturally-dependent s... Read More about Proxemics mobile collocated interactions.

Collocated interaction: new challenges in ‘same time, same place’ research (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Fischer, J. E., Porcheron, M., Lucero, A., Quigley, A., Scott, S. D., Ciolfi, L., …Memarovic, N. (2016). Collocated interaction: new challenges in ‘same time, same place’ research.

In the 25 years since Ellis, Gibbs, and Rein proposed the time-space taxonomy, research in the ‘same time, same place’ quadrant has diversified, perhaps even fragmented. This one-day workshop will bring together researchers with diverse, yet converge... Read More about Collocated interaction: new challenges in ‘same time, same place’ research.

Reflecting on the study of mobile collocated interactions: the changing face of wearable devices (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Porcheron, M. (2015). Reflecting on the study of mobile collocated interactions: the changing face of wearable devices.

Wearables, unlike smartphones, typically afford increasingly private or discrete interactions that are invisible to the casual observer. This shifting paradigm of device interaction combined with the increasing popularity of wearables presents an exc... Read More about Reflecting on the study of mobile collocated interactions: the changing face of wearable devices.

Measuring the effect of Think Aloud Protocols on workload using fNIRS (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Pike, M. F., Maior, H. A., Porcheron, M., Sharples, S. C., & Wilson, M. L. (2014). Measuring the effect of Think Aloud Protocols on workload using fNIRS. . https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2556974

The Think Aloud Protocol (TAP) is a verbalisation technique widely employed in HCI user studies to give insight into user experience, yet little work has explored the impact that TAPs have on participants during user studies. This paper utilises a br... Read More about Measuring the effect of Think Aloud Protocols on workload using fNIRS.

Progressivity for voice interface design
Conference Proceeding
Fischer, J. E., Reeves, S., Porcheron, M., & Sikveland, R. O. (2019). Progressivity for voice interface design. In CUI '19: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (1–8). https://doi.org/10.1145/3342775.3342788

Drawing from Conversation Analysis (CA), we examine how the orientation towards progressivity in talk--keeping things moving--might help us better understand and design for voice interactions. We introduce progressivity by surveying its explication i... Read More about Progressivity for voice interface design.