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Making Everyday Things Talk: Speculative Conversations into the Future of Voice Interfaces at Home
Malmö Univ, Malmö, Sweden..
Univ Technol Sydney, Ultimo, Australia..
Delft Univ Technol, Delft, Netherlands..
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Human Centered Technology, Media Technology and Interaction Design, MID.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9884-0205
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2021 (English)In: Extended Abstracts Of The 2021 CHI Conference On Human Factors In Computing Systems (CHI'21), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2021Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

What if things had a voice? What if we could talk directly to things instead of using a mediating voice interface such as an Alexa or a Google Assistant? In this paper, we share our insights from talking to a pair of boots, a tampon, a perfume bottle, and toilet paper among other everyday things to explore their conversational capabilities. We conducted Thing Interviews using a more-than-human design approach to discover a thing's perspectives, worldviews and its relations to other humans and nonhumans. Based on our analysis of the speculative conversations, we identified some themes characterizing the emergent qualities of people's relationships with everyday things. We believe the themes presented in the paper may inspire future research on designing everyday things with conversational capabilities at home.

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2021.
Keywords [en]
Thing Interviews, Conversational Agents, Voice Interfaces, IoT, AI, More-than-human Design
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Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-310632DOI: 10.1145/3411763.3450390ISI: 000759178500138Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85105813744OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-310632DiVA, id: diva2:1651086
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CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, MAY 08-13, 2021, ELECTR NETWORK
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Part of proceedings: ISBN 978-1-4503-8095-9

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Available from: 2022-04-11 Created: 2022-04-11 Last updated: 2025-02-24Bibliographically approved

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