Eliciting spoken interruptions to inform proactive speech agent design

Edwards, Justin, Janssen, Christian P., Gould, Sandy J. J. and Cowan, Benjamin R. 2021. Eliciting spoken interruptions to inform proactive speech agent design. Presented at: 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI 2021), Virtual, 27-29 July 2021. CUI '21: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. ACM, pp. 1-12. 10.1145/3469595.3469618

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Abstract

Current speech agent interactions are typically user-initiated, limiting the interactions they can deliver. Future functionality will require agents to be proactive, sometimes interrupting users. Little is known about how these spoken interruptions should be designed, especially in urgent interruption contexts. We look to inform design of proactive agent interruptions through investigating how people interrupt others engaged in complex tasks. We therefore developed a new technique to elicit human spoken interruptions of people engaged in other tasks. We found that people interrupted sooner when interruptions were urgent. Some participants used access rituals to forewarn interruptions, but most rarely used them. People balanced speed and accuracy in timing interruptions, often using cues from the task they interrupted. People also varied phrasing and delivery of interruptions to reflect urgency. We discuss how our findings can inform speech agent design and how our paradigm can help gain insight into human interruptions in new contexts.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Publisher:	ACM
ISBN:	978-1-4503-8998-3
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	7 June 2021
Date of Acceptance:	28 April 2021
Last Modified:	22 Dec 2022 14:07
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/141749

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