Drawing from his ethnographic fieldwork in Nottingham Hackspace, Andreas will provide an overview of his PhD work to date. This will include lessons gleaned from instances of co-located advice-giving and help-giving in the space itself, and discuss recent findings relating to how hackspace members give each other ad-hoc help and assistance in the digital realm, aiming to inform the design of tools to augment advice-giving via digital means. He will also briefly talk about a CHI 2017 workshop on open design and maker cultures.
In this talk, I will present my CSCW 2017 paper on the use of conversational agents (e.g. Siri, Google Now…) amongst groups of friends while they are socialising in the café. The presentation will look at the character of how queries to such agents are performed, how members orient to the query performer, and how problematic device interactions are collaboratively attended to. I'm looking for feedback on the presentation from lab members as I will be giving this presentation at the conference next year.Martin Porcheron, Joel E. Fischer, and Sarah Sharples. 2017. “Do Animals Have Accents?”: Talking with Agents in Multi-Party Conversation. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998298
University of Nottingham School of Computer Science Nottingham, NG8 1BB
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