Benjamin R. Cowan

Orcid: 0000-0002-8595-8132

Affiliations:
  • University College Dublin, Ireland


According to our database1, Benjamin R. Cowan authored at least 110 papers between 2009 and 2024.

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2024
Exploring how politeness impacts the user experience of chatbots for mental health support.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., April, 2024

CUI@CHI 2024: Building Trust in CUIs-From Design to Deployment.
CoRR, 2024

Working with Trouble and Failures in Conversation between Humans and Robots (WTF 2023) & Is CUI Design Ready Yet?
CoRR, 2024

2023
Audience design and egocentrism in reference production during human-computer dialogue.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., August, 2023

Introduction to this special issue: guiding the conversation: new theory and design perspectives for conversational user interfaces.
Hum. Comput. Interact., July, 2023

The Partner Modelling Questionnaire: A validated self-report measure of perceptions toward machines as dialogue partners.
CoRR, 2023

Multimodal Conversational Agents for People with Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2023

Human-Robot Conversational Interaction (HRCI).
Proceedings of the Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023

Human Speakers Help Machine Listeners To account For Visual Asymmetries in Dialogue.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2023

Is CUI Design Ready Yet? A Workshop on Community Practices and Gaps in CUI Design & Resource Development.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2023

Investigating the Usability of a Speech Agent-based Role-playing Game.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2023

[email protected]: Inclusive Design of CUIs Across Modalities and Mobilities.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

A Special Interest Group on Developing Theories of Language Use in Interaction with Conversational User Interfaces.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

About Engaging and Governing Strategies: A Thematic Analysis of Dark Patterns in Social Networking Services.
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

Investigating the effect of visual realism on empathic responses to emotionally expressive virtual humans.
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2023, 2023

Defending Against the Dark Arts: Recognising Dark Patterns in Social Media.
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2023

2022
Pervasive Therapy: Designing Conversation-Based Interfaces for Ecological Momentary Intervention.
IEEE Pervasive Comput., 2022

A chronology of SIGCHI conferences: 1983 to 2022.
Interactions, 2022

Bridging social distance during social distancing: exploring social talk and remote collegiality in video conferencing.
Hum. Comput. Interact., 2022

RoomReader: A Multimodal Corpus of Online Multiparty Conversational Interactions.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

Comparing Command Construction in Native and Non-Native Speaker IPA Interaction through Conversation Analysis.
Proceedings of the CUI 2022: 4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, Glasgow, United Kingdom, July 26, 2022

Bilingual by default: Voice Assistants and the role of code-switching in creating a bilingual user experience.
Proceedings of the CUI 2022: 4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, Glasgow, United Kingdom, July 26, 2022

Beyond Subservience: Using Joint Commitment to Enable Proactive CUIs for Mood Logging.
Proceedings of the CUI 2022: 4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, Glasgow, United Kingdom, July 26, 2022

Ethics of Conversational User Interfaces.
Proceedings of the CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA, 29 April 2022, 2022

The Last Decade of HCI Research on Children and Voice-based Conversational Agents.
Proceedings of the CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA, 29 April 2022, 2022

Exploring Smart Speaker User Experience for People Who Stammer.
Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2022

2021
Designing gamified rewards to encourage repeated app selection: Effect of reward placement.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2021

An Empirical Study of Topic Transition in Dialogue.
CoRR, 2021

Enhancing Self-Disclosure In Neural Dialog Models By Candidate Re-ranking.
CoRR, 2021

Enhancing Self-disclosure In Open-Domain Dialogue By Candidate Re-ranking.
Proceedings of the Conversational AI for Natural Human-Centric Interaction, 2021

[email protected]: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Intelligent Conversational User Interface Interactions.
Proceedings of the IUI '21: 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2021

Finding a New Voice: Transitioning Designers from GUI to VUI Design.
Proceedings of the CUI 2021, 2021

Synthesizing a human-like voice is the easy way.
Proceedings of the CUI 2021, 2021

Eliciting Spoken Interruptions to Inform Proactive Speech Agent Design.
Proceedings of the CUI 2021, 2021

"You, Move There!": Investigating the Impact of Feedback on Voice Control in Virtual Environments.
Proceedings of the CUI 2021, 2021

[email protected]: Inclusive and Collaborative Child-facing Voice Technologies.
Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2021 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2021

Eliciting and Analysing Users' Envisioned Dialogues with Perfect Voice Assistants.
Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

Let's Talk About CUIs: Putting Conversational User Interface Design Into Practice.
Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

Heuristic Evaluation of Conversational Agents.
Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

A Special Interest Group on Designed and Engineered Friction in Interaction.
Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

What Do We See in Them? Identifying Dimensions of Partner Models for Speech Interfaces Using a Psycholexical Approach.
Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

CUI @ Auto-UI: Exploring the Fortunate and Unfortunate Futures of Conversational Automotive User Interfaces.
Proceedings of the AutomotiveUI '21: 13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Leeds, United Kingdom, September 9-14, 2021, 2021

Ascending from the valley: Can state-of-the-art photorealism avoid the uncanny?
Proceedings of the SAP '21: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2021, 2021

Building and Designing Expressive Speech Synthesis.
Proceedings of the Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 Years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, 2021

2020
Quantifying the impact of making and breaking interface habits.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2020

Poster: APIs for IPAs? Towards End-User Tailoring of Intelligent Personal Assistants.
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2020

See What I'm Saying? Comparing Intelligent Personal Assistant Use for Native and Non-Native Language Speakers.
Proceedings of the MobileHCI '20: 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2020

CUI: Conversational User Interfaces: A Workshop on New Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives for Researching Speech-based Conversational Interactions.
Proceedings of the IUI '20: 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2020

MT syntactic priming effects on L2 English speakers.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 2020

Mental Workload and Language Production in Non-Native Speaker IPA Interaction.
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2020

Don't Believe The Hype!: White Lies of Conversational User Interface Creation Tools.
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2020

Speech diversity and speech interfaces: considering an inclusive future through stammering.
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2020

Finally a Case for Collaborative VR?: The Need to Design for Remote Multi-Party Conversations.
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2020

CUI@CSCW: Collaborating through Conversational User Interfaces.
Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2020

CUI@CHI: Mapping Grand Challenges for the Conversational User Interface Community.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020

2019
Revolution or Evolution? Speech Interaction and HCI Design Guidelines.
IEEE Pervasive Comput., 2019

Understanding and Encouraging Online Reviewing With a Selection-Based Review System.
Interact. Comput., 2019

The State of Speech in HCI: Trends, Themes and Challenges.
Interact. Comput., 2019

Mapping Perceptions of Humanness in Speech-Based Intelligent Personal Assistant Interaction.
CoRR, 2019

Multitasking with Alexa Multitasking with Alexa: How Using Intelligent Personal Assistants Impacts Language-based Primary Task Performance.
CoRR, 2019

What Makes a Good Conversation? Challenges in Designing Truly Conversational Agents.
CoRR, 2019

Mapping Perceptions of Humanness in Intelligent Personal Assistant Interaction.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2019

Voice assistants and older people: some open issues.
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2019

Multitasking with Alexa: how using intelligent personal assistants impacts language-based primary task performance.
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2019

What's in an accent?: the impact of accented synthetic speech on lexical choice in human-machine dialogue.
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2019

Push Away the Smartphone: Investigating Methods to Counter Problematic Smartphone Use.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019

What Makes a Good Conversation?: Challenges in Designing Truly Conversational Agents.
Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019

Mapping Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives for Understanding Speech Interface Interactions.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019

Siri, Echo and Performance: You have to Suffer Darling.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019

2018
Digital Behaviour Change Interventions to Break and Form Habits.
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2018

Explorations in multiparty casual social talk and its relevance for social human machine dialogue.
J. Multimodal User Interfaces, 2018

The State of Speech in HCI: Trends, Themes and Challenges.
CoRR, 2018

Subliminal semantic number processing on smartphones.
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2018

Design guidelines for hands-free speech interaction.
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct, 2018

ADELE: Care and Companionship for Independent Aging.
Proceedings of the AAMAS Workshop on Intelligent Conversation Agents in Home and Geriatric Care Applications co-located with the Federated AI Meeting (FAIM 2018), 2018

2017
Walk1916: Exploring non-research user access to and use of digital surrogates via a mobile walking tour app.
J. Documentation, 2017

Using Emotional Attachment as a Lens to Improve User's E-reading Experience.
IxD&A, 2017

Exploring Multiparty Casual Talk for Social Human-Machine Dialogue.
Proceedings of the Speech and Computer - 19th International Conference, 2017

CARAMILLA - Speech Mediated Language Learning Modules for Refugee and High School Learners of English and Irish.
Proceedings of the 7th ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2017

Exploring the feasibility of subliminal priming on smartphones.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2017

"What can i help you with?": infrequent users' experiences of intelligent personal assistants.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2017

Chunks in Multiparty Conversation - Building Blocks for Extended Social Talk.
Proceedings of the Advanced Social Interaction with Agents, 2017

The Influence of Synthetic Voice on the Evaluation of a Virtual Character.
Proceedings of the Interspeech 2017, 2017

Introducing ADELE: a personalized intelligent companion.
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents, 2017

Dialog acts in greeting and leavetaking in social talk.
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents, 2017

Social talk: making conversation with people and machine.
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents, 2017

They Know as Much as We Do: Knowledge Estimation and Partner Modelling of Artificial Partners.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Designing Speech, Acoustic and Multimodal Interactions.
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017

2016
A Preliminary Exploration of Group Social Engagement Level Recognition in Multiparty Casual Conversation.
Proceedings of the Speech and Computer - 18th International Conference, 2016

Towards Understanding How Speech Output Affects Navigation System Credibility.
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016

Walk1916: Exploring how a mobile walking tour app can provide value for LAMs.
Proceedings of the Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology, 2016

2015
The Impact of an Embodied Agent's Emotional Expressions Over Multiple Interactions.
Interact. Comput., 2015

Voice anthropomorphism, interlocutor modelling and alignment effects on syntactic choices in human-computer dialogue.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2015

Does voice anthropomorphism affect lexical alignment in speech-based human-computer dialogue?
Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2015, 2015

2014
Measuring Anxiety Towards Wiki Editing: Investigating the Dimensionality of the Wiki Anxiety Inventory-Editing.
Interact. Comput., 2014

Interaction science SIG: overcoming challenges.
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014

Challenges of using Stereoscopic Displays in a Touch Interaction Context.
Proceedings of the BCS-HCI 2014 Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference, 2014

2013
The impact of identity on anxiety during wiki editing in higher education.
J. Enterp. Inf. Manag., 2013

Touching annotations: A visual metaphor for navigation of annotation in digital documents.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2013

Take it personally: personal accountability and energy consumption in domestic households.
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013

The stroppy kettle: an intervention to break energy consumption habits.
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013

Should cool be a design goal?
Proceedings of the BCS-HCI '13 Proceedings of the 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference, 2013

2012
Active progress bar: aiding the switch to temporary activities.
Proceedings of the BCS-HCI '12 Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers, 2012

Investigating the impact of interlocutor voice on syntactic alignment in human-computer dialogue.
Proceedings of the BCS-HCI '12 Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers, 2012

2011
Causal effects of wiki site design on anxiety and usability.
PhD thesis, 2011

Exploring the wiki user experience: The effects of training spaces on novice user usability and anxiety towards wiki editing.
Interact. Comput., 2011

Choosing your Moment: Interruptions in Multimedia Annotation.
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2011, 2011

Understanding and designing cool technologies for teenagers.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011

Investigating syntactic alignment in spoken natural language human-computer communication.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011

2009
Exploring the effects of experience on wiki anxiety and wiki usability: an online study.
Proceedings of the 2009 British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2009


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