TY - GEN
T1 - Making Everyday Things Talk: Speculative Conversations into the Future of Voice Interfaces at Home
AU - Reddy, Anuradha
AU - Kocaballi, A. Baki
AU - Nicenboim, Iohanna
AU - Søndergaard, Marie Louise Juul
AU - Lupetti, Maria Luce
AU - Key, Cayla
AU - Speed, Chris
AU - Lockton, Dan
AU - Giaccardi, Elisa
AU - Grommé, Francisca
AU - Robbins, Holly
AU - Primlani, Namrata
AU - Yurman, Paulina
AU - Sumartojo, Shanti
AU - Phan, Thao
AU - Bedö, Viktor
AU - Strengers, Yolande
PY - 2021/5/8
Y1 - 2021/5/8
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - AI
KW - Conversational Agents
KW - IoT
KW - More-than-human Design
KW - Thing Interviews
KW - Voice Interfaces
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85105813744&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3411763.3450390
DO - 10.1145/3411763.3450390
M3 - Conference contribution
BT - Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2021
PB - ACM Press
ER -