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Lessons from Oz: Design Guidelines for Automotive Conversational User Interfaces

Human-Computer Interaction 2019-07-26 v1

Abstract

This paper draws from literature and our experience of conducting Wizard-of-Oz (WoZ) studies using natural language, conversational user interfaces (CUIs) in the automotive domain. These studies have revealed positive effects of using in-vehicle CUIs on issues such as: cognitive demand/workload, passive task-related fatigue, trust, acceptance and environment engagement. A nascent set of human-centred design guidelines that have emerged is presented. These are based on the analysis of users' behaviour and the positive benefits observed, and aim to make interactions with an in-vehicle agent interlocutor safe, effective, engaging and enjoyable, while confirming with users' expectations. The guidelines can be used to inform the design of future in-vehicle CUIs or applied experimentally using WoZ methodology, and will be evaluated and refined in ongoing work.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1907.11179,
  title  = {Lessons from Oz: Design Guidelines for Automotive Conversational User Interfaces},
  author = {David R. Large and Gary Burnett and Leigh Clark},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.11179},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Accepted to the 11th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '19)

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