#uxdaystokyo2018

[voiceandgesture]

From https://books.google.com/books?id=w5tVDKFqZscC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=japanese+gricean+maxims&source=bl&ots=610OxYdBBb&sig=MmoA1BXg2MioIzCi_-I1TJn9qi8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKwday643ZAhVrilQKHaUGCokQ6AEITzAE#v=onepage&q&f=false

[voiceandgesture]

This study used a revised Conversational Violations Test to examine Gricean maxim violations in 4- to 6-year-old Japanese children and adults. Participants' understanding of the following maxims was assessed: be informative (first maxim of quantity), avoid redundancy (second maxim of quantity), be truthful (maxim of quality), be relevant (maxim of relation), avoid ambiguity (second maxim of manner), and be polite (maxim of politeness). Sensitivity to violations of Gricean maxims increased with age: 4-year-olds' understanding of maxims was near chance, 5-year-olds understood some maxims (first maxim of quantity and maxims of quality, relation, and manner), and 6-year-olds and adults understood all maxims. Preschoolers acquired the maxim of relation first and had the greatest difficulty understanding the second maxim of quantity. Children and adults differed in their comprehension of the maxim of politeness. The development of the pragmatic understanding of Gricean maxims and implications for the construction of developmental tasks from early childhood to adulthood are discussed.

[voiceandgesture]

Research referenced in the article: http://www.medisch-fitness.com/documents/75procentdagelijksegesprekkenbestedenweaanroddelen.pdf

[voiceandgesture]

The proposal examined here is that speakers use uh and um to announce that they are initiating what they expect to be a minor (uh), or major (um), delay in speaking. Speakers can use these announcements in turn to implicate, for example, that they are searching for a word, are deciding what to say next, want to keep the floor, or want to cede the floor. Evidence for the proposal comes from several large corpora of spontaneous speech. The evidence shows that speakers monitor their speech plans for upcoming delays worthy of comment. When they discover such a delay, they formulate where and how to suspend speaking, which item to produce (uh or um), whether to attach it as a clitic onto the previous word (as in “and-uh”), and whether to prolong it. The argument is that uh and um are conventional English words, and speakers plan for, formulate, and produce them just as they would any word.

[voiceandgesture]

Abstract: Home and automation are not natural partners–one homey and the other cold. Most current automation in the home is packaged in the form of appliances. To better understand the current reality and possible future of living with other types of domestic technology, we went out into the field to conduct need finding interviews among people who have already introduced automation into their homes and kept it there–home automators. We present the lessons learned from these home automators as frameworks and implications for the values that domestic technology should support. In particular, we focus on the satisfaction and meaning that the home automators derived from their projects, especially in connecting to their homes (rather than simply controlling their homes). These results point the way toward other technologies designed for our everyday lives at home.

[voiceandgesture]

The Neo-Gricean Formulation of Implicatures Grice's approach to conversational implicature has been streamlined and expanded in scope by Horn (1984), who separates out Grice's maxim of Quality, or the requirement of truthfulness, from the arena of conversational implicatures. (Sets upper and lower bounds for Quality - interesting)

[voiceandgesture]

My favorite part of this study is that they evoked natural speech from the participants by asking them to tell a story "A later section of the interview leads up to the question, "Have you ever been in a situation where you thought you were in serious danger of being killed, where you thought, 'this is it'?" If the answer is "yes," we ask, "What happened?" There is a psychological pressure to prove that this was a real, not an imagined danger, and the speaker often becomes involved in his narrative to the extent that his attention is entirely focused on this re-enactment of the past."

[voiceandgesture]

(Why I cringe whenever people start a VUI dialogue from writing rather than speaking. -Abi) Um, er: How meaning varies between speech and its typed transcript Harry Collins, Willow Leonard-Clarke, Hannah O'Mahoney (Submitted on 5 Sep 2016) We use an extract from an interview concerning gravitational wave physics to show that the meaning of hesitancies within speech are different when spoken and when read from the corresponding transcript. When used in speech, hesitancies can indicate a pause for thought, when read in a transcript they indicate uncertainty. In a series of experiments the perceived uncertainty of the transcript was shown to be higher than the perceived uncertainty of the spoken version with almost no overlap for any respondent. We propose that finding and the method could be the beginning of a new subject we call 'Language Code Analysis' which would systematically examine how meanings change when the 'same' words are communicated via different media and symbol systems.

[voiceandgesture]

The first step in designing a great voice interface is understanding the context for its use. This article from Sam Ladner is a great introduction to the importance of understanding people in their environment.

[voiceandgesture]

A series of blog posts on Gricean Maxims, including pop culture examples.

[voiceandgesture]

Gaze in Human-Robot Communication is a volume collecting recent research studying gaze behaviour in human-robot interaction (HRI)

[voiceandgesture]

How Cortana Comes To Life https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/02/10/how-cortana-comes-to-life-in-windows-10/