Editors:
- Explores the intersection of UX design and conversation science
- Demonstrates a new approach to UX design for conversational interfaces, both voice- and text-based
- Contains contributions from researchers across academia and industry
- Provides case studies that put conversational UX design principles into practice
- Addresses fundamental issues in conversational agent development: Agent Knowledge, Agent Misunderstanding and Agent Design
Part of the book series: Human–Computer Interaction Series (HCIS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Human Conversation and Conversational Agents
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Front Matter
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Agent Knowledge
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About this book
As voice interfaces and virtual assistants have moved out of the industry research labs and into the pockets, desktops and living rooms of the general public, a demand for a new kind of user experience (UX) design is emerging. Although the people are becoming familiar with Siri, Alexa, Cortana and others, their user experience is still characterized by short, command- or query-oriented exchanges, rather than longer, conversational ones. Limitations of the microphone and natural language processing technologies are only part of the problem. Current conventions of UX design apply mostly to visual user interfaces, such as web or mobile; they are less useful for deciding how to organize utterances, by the user and the virtual agent, into sequences that work like those of natural human conversation.
This edited book explores the intersection of UX design, of both text- or voice-based virtual agents, and the analysis of naturally occurring human conversation (e.g., the Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis and Interactional Sociolinguistics literatures). It contains contributions from researchers, from academia and industry, with varied backgrounds working in the area of human-computer interaction. Each chapter explores some aspect of conversational UX design. Some describe the design challenges faced in creating a particular virtual agent. Others discuss how the findings from the literatures of the social sciences can inform a new kind of UX design that starts with conversation.
Editors and Affiliations
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IBM Research-Almaden, San Jose, USA
Robert J. Moore, Margaret H. Szymanski, Raphael Arar, Guang-Jie Ren
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Studies in Conversational UX Design
Editors: Robert J. Moore, Margaret H. Szymanski, Raphael Arar, Guang-Jie Ren
Series Title: Human–Computer Interaction Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95579-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95578-0Published: 17 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07063-2Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95579-7Published: 03 September 2018
Series ISSN: 1571-5035
Series E-ISSN: 2524-4477
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 204
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Computers and Society