@inproceedings{8d0db412fd3241d2913c8dcdab50062e,
title = "When the Tissue Box Says “Bless You!”: Using Speech to Build Socially Interactive Objects",
abstract = "From the Internet of Things to ubiquitous computing, smart objects are everywhere and have become a significant part of the information supply chain. However, these objects remain invisible to end-users mostly because they do not interact with them. Our project is devoted to brainstorming different design possibilities for building interfaces for these smart objects. This paper explores one such possibility—outfitting the object with a speech interface. Study participants (N = 63) witnessed the experimenter sneezing, followed by a “Bless You” from either a nearby tissue box, a robot in the room, or a person in the room. Surprisingly, users found the speaking tissue box to be as social and agentic as a humanoid robot and a human. We also found significant moderating effects of users{\textquoteright} preference for consistency, parasocial tendency and power usage. Participants who scored high on these traits were more likely to regard the study object as intelligent and likeable. Users also tended to show the same non-verbal reactions to the tissue box as they would to a human or a robot.",
keywords = "Agency, Robotics, Smart object, Socialness, Speech",
author = "Haiyan Jia and Mu Wu and Eunhwa Jung and \{Shyam Sundar\}, S. and Alice Shapiro",
year = "2013",
month = apr,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1145/2468356.2468649",
language = "English",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "1635--1640",
editor = "Michel Beaudouin-Lafon and Patrick Baudisch and Mackay, \{Wendy E.\}",
booktitle = "CHI EA 2013 - Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
note = "31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems:, CHI EA 2013 ; Conference date: 27-04-2013 Through 02-05-2013",
}