Fact · Voice and AI
A 2018 workshop paper on speech input in public spaces expected that users would be more self-conscious speaking their answers than typing them discreetly.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“users will be more self-conscious than when they discreetly type their answers”
Talk-To-Me: Designing Speech Input for Public Spaces, Giovanna Nunes Vilaza et al., CHI 2018 Workshop on Socially Acceptable Technologies, UCL Interaction Centre, 2018, Introduction.
Open the original- What it measures
- The authors built a public prototype and observed that people in a coffee shop avoided it, while people at a crowded event were more open to it.
- What it does not show
- An expectation in a short workshop paper with a small prototype, not a measured survey of how many people feel this way.