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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
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- What it is
- A short workshop paper from University College London describing a prototype that let passers-by answer questions and talk to each other in shared public spaces by speech. It reports how people reacted in a coffee shop and at an event, and argues that spoken input in public needs design care.
- How much weight it carries
- A peer-discussed workshop paper, not a full journal article, with a small prototype and observations rather than a controlled survey. It is useful for the reasons people hesitate to speak to devices in public, not for how common that hesitation is.
Facts taken from this source
- 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.
“users will be more self-conscious than when they discreetly type their answers” (Introduction)