Table of Contents

• When Text-to-Speech Speaks in Your Voice: A Study on Public PerceptionAriadna Sanchez, Jinzuomu Zhong, Artemis Deligianni, Alice Ross, Simon King 0001. [doi]
• Beyond Captions: Shaping Imagery Models for Blind or Visually Impaired People During Interacting with AI-powered Conversational Visual AssistantMazen Salous, Mikolaj P. Wozniak, Timo von Reeken, Matthias Kramer, Wilko Heuten, Susanne Boll, Larbi Abdenebaoui. [doi]
• Towards a Typology of User Engagement in Conversational Agent Voting Advice ApplicationsDaan van der Weijden, Thilo Ignaz Dieing, Fynn Bachmann. [doi]
• An Investigation of Trust and Overreliance on Conversational Instructions in Augmented RealityAnja Rejc, Juliana Hildegard Madritsch, Neven A. M. ElSayed, Dominik Kowald, Simone Kopeinik. [doi]
• How Should AI Communicate Diagnostic Uncertainty?: The Role of Probability Information and Empathy in User EvaluationsMinjeong Kim, Minseo Kim, Hayeon Song. [doi]
• "I'M BLIND, ChatGPT": Interactional Breakdown and Repair in LLM-based Conversational AI for Visually Impaired UsersSena Choi, Joel E. Fischer. [doi]
• Does Humanizing Chatbots Promote or Hinder Voice Shopping?Marisa Victoria Tschopp, Cheng Chen 0067, Magdalena Wischnewski, Miriam Gieselmann, Johannes Schöning, S. Shyam Sundar, Kai Sassenberg. [doi]
• After the Interface: Relocating Human Agency in the Age of Conversational AIMengke Wu, Mike Yao. [doi]
• Whose Values? Demographic Influences on Perceptions of Conversational AI Value AlignmentMalak Sadek, Céline Mougenot. [doi]
• We Are Designing from Flatland: On the Limits of Simulating Future-Self Identities in CUIs for DementiaRucha Khot, Minha Lee, Rens Brankaert, Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn. [doi]
• When Humans Align to Machines: Investigating Verbal Mimicry in Interactions with LLM-Based Voice AssistantsMonique Dittrich. [doi]
• Negotiating Creativity with AI: Effects on Self-Efficacy and Task-PerformanceNadav Viduchinsky, Hadas Erel, Noa Morag Yaar. [doi]
• Invisible Impact of Empathy on Behavioral Change: Isolating the Effect of Empathy in Long-term Physical Activity Coaching Chatbot InteractionsSiyan Li, Kai-Hui Liang, Shopnil Shahriar, Yilin Ye, Shiyoh Goetsu, Wei-Wei Du, Masahiro Yoshida, Tsunayuki Ohwa, Xuhai Xu, Zhou Yu 0005. [doi]
• Comparing Intent Communication Modes for Instruction-based Image EditingAlbatool Wazzan, Iman Qaiser, Stephen MacNeil, Richard Souvenir. [doi]
• STELLA: An Open-Source Platform for Auditable Voice-First Conversational Health Coaching AgentsFelix Moser, Rasita Vinay, Tobias Kowatsch. [doi]
• AI Interviews the Interviewers: Practitioner Experience and Evaluation of Conversational AI InterviewingNhi Dam, Leonhard Glomann. [doi]
• Too Much, Too Little, Just Right? Towards Dimensions of Trust Calibration in Human-AI InteractionIngo Börsting, Marc Hesenius. [doi]
• The Default Speaker: Why Neutral Conversational AI is a Myth Worth RetiringAimen Gaba. [doi]
• Towards Pedagogy-Grounded Conversational AI Tutors for Interest-Based LearningAbhishek Kulkarni, Sarah Anne Brown, Neha Rani, Sharon Lynn Chu. [doi]
• Structure Matters: Evaluating Multi-Agents Orchestration in Generative Therapeutic ChatbotsSina Elahimanesh, MohammadAli Mohammadkhani, Sara Zahedi Movahed, Mohammad Mahdi Abootorabi, Shayan Salehi, Abbas Edalat. [doi]
• "You're Not Listening": LLM 'Smart Speakers' Need to Learn When to Shut UpSaul Albert, Hetty Sargent, Arthur Schoorens. [doi]
• Embodied Active Listening: How Non-Verbal Backchannel Behaviour Influences Trust and Perception of a Social RobotGisela Reyes-Cruz, Marta Romeo, Dominic James Price, Matthew Peter Aylett, Chris Greenhalgh, Joel E. Fischer. [doi]
• "You Need to Drop the App": Online Community Responses to Teens' Disclosures of Overreliance on AI Companion ChatbotsMohammad (Matt) Namvarpour, Ananya Mhetras, Jessica Y. Medina, Mamtaj Akter, Afsaneh Razi. [doi]
• Help, Don't Control: Measuring User Emotional Background in AI Assistant InteractionAnastasiia Satarenko. [doi]
• Obedient Machines Make Us Everyday Authoritarians: A Power Framework and Research Agenda for Human-AI InteractionJoshua Mu-En Liu, Yoyo Tsung-Yu Hou. [doi]
• Freeing the Wizard of Oz: A Highly Configurable Platform for Psychology and Linguistic Experiments with CUIsEmily Shiu, Anthony Tieu, Joanna Xiong, Leo Qi, Cosmin Munteanu, Katherine White. [doi]
• XPLAIN: A Proactive Scaffold Across Speech Processing Stages - Supporting Non-Native Speakers in Real-Time AI-Mediated Turn-TakingWanqing Psyche He, Susan R. Fussell. [doi]
• Who is Behind the Voice? User Reasoning About Agency and Capability in a Multi-Party Conversational InterfaceJames Simpson, Hamish Stening, Gaurav Patil, Patrick Nalepka, Ayman Bin Kamruddin, Mark Dras, Rachel W. Kallen, Simon G. Hosking, Michael J. Richardson, Deborah Richards 0001. [doi]
• Intelligence Is Not All You Need: A Case for Artificial Wisdom in Conversational AgentsMatthias Kraus 0001. [doi]
• Does Embodiment Matter? Evaluating Social Presence, Comfort and Authenticity in Robot-Guided MeditationEllie Green, Andrew Logan Blair, Mary Ellen Foster. [doi]
• Linguistic Uncertainty Markers for Trust Calibration in AI-Assisted Decision-MakingLaura Spillner, Johanna Rockstroh, Nina Wenig, Nima Zargham, Leonard Kiefner, Robert Porzel, Rainer Malaka. [doi]
• Who's the Liar? Multi-Agents' Message Strength and User Judgment Under AmbiguitySeokJoo Hong, Eunhye Shim, Haeyoon Lee. [doi]
• Designing for Grief: Bereaved Adults' Perspectives on Conversational SupportAllen Kayesu, Himanshi Lalwani, Hanan Salam. [doi]
• Context-Sensitive Conversational AI for Visually Impaired Adolescents: Scenarios from a Multi-Stakeholder Interview StudySiddharth Gulati, Cristiano Storni. [doi]
• GroupEnvoy: A Conversational Agent Speaking for the Outgroup to Foster Intergroup RelationsKoken Hata, Rintaro Chujo, Reina Takamatsu, Wenzhen Xu, Yukino Baba. [doi]
• A Real-Time Voice Agent for Delivering Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy to Persons Living with DementiaYixiao Li, Ita Daryanti Saragih, Donna Marie Fick, S. Shyam Sundar, Saeed Abdullah. [doi]
• From Interlocutor to Cognitive Extension: Brain-Computer Interface as a Step Beyond Dialogue in Conversational AILucija Mihic Zidar, Praneel Bhatia, Philipp Wicke. [doi]
• Sruthi: What Becomes Sayable Through Peer-Mode Reflective Scaffolding in Fieldwork CommunicationSrividya Sheshadri, Manju Balakrishnan Pillai, Renuka Kumar, Pavithra P. M. Nair, Apoorv Gupta, Megha Tm, Sooraj S. Nair, Balu M. Menon, Unnikrishnan Radhakrishnan, Bhavani Rao R. [doi]
• Affect Without Categories: Why Empathy Strategies May Miss the Mark in Accounting Support: A Mixed-Methods Study on Affective Classification StrategiesMarco Enrique Zimmermann, Arndt Bieberstein, Sebastian Rose, Oliver Korn. [doi]
• Toward Conversational AI for Supporting Workplace Growth: A Preliminary User StudyHiroko Kamide, Ryosuke Nakanishi, Chie Murai, Yushi Seki, Yasuo Katsuhara, Eiji Mitsuda. [doi]
• Validating the Single Item Kawaii MeasureKatie Seaborn, Yijia Wang 0001. [doi]
• Demonstration of Adapt4Me: An Uncertainty-Aware Authoring Environment for Personalizing Automatic Speech Recognition to Non-normative SpeechNiclas Pokel, Yiming Zhao, Pehuen Moure, Yingqiang Gao, Roman Böhringer. [doi]
• How Social Role Influences Interaction and Evaluation in Persona-based Health Chatbots: A Qualitative User StudyWeiran Cui, Chi-Lan Yang, Takuji Narumi. [doi]
• Designed for Interfaces, Not Conversations: The Limits of Usability Heuristics in GenAI Chatbot AssessmentIrene Lopatovska, Christine Murad. [doi]
• More Interactivity, More Open-Mindedness? The Influence of AI-based Chatbot Interactivity on Attitudes Toward VegansJana Falkner, Yvonne Kammerer. [doi]
• ADAPTIC: Adapting Dialog and Pragmatic Traits in ContextLaura Spillner, Johanna Rockstroh, Paula Goerke, Jule Jensen, Sara Skardelly, Leonie Winterpacht, Jonah Wermter, Nima Zargham, Rainer Malaka. [doi]
• Conversational Breakdown and Repair in Constraint-Heavy LLM-Based Architectures: A Trace-Based Taxonomy and Architectural Analysis for Reliable CUI SystemsK. J. P. G. Perera, Shaini S. Nanayakkara, Earl W. Huff. [doi]
• Sycophantic Metacognition: Investigating the Dunning-Kruger Effect in Large Language Model Self-AssessmentManuel Delaflor, Carlos Toxtli. [doi]
• From Confusion to Consolidation: A Staged Conversational Workflow for Post-Lecture ReviewMengqi Fang, Dennis Reidsma. [doi]
• "More Like a Person's Voice": Exploring the Design of Empathetic Virtual Agents for Older AdultsHabiba Imam, Jaisie Sin. [doi]
• Empathy through the Lens of Conversational Agents: A Systematic ReviewSupriya Khadka, Smit Desai. [doi]
• LLM-based conversational agents for dyslexia treatment: From chatbots to structured tutorsGiulia Valcamonica, Giovanni Caleffi, Francesco Piferi, Marta Tagliani, Maria Vender, Denis D. Delfitto, Franca Garzotto. [doi]
• Is Conversational AI Taking Control?: From Individualistic to Holistic Approaches to Sustaining Human AgencyAmid Ayobi, Benjamin Lucas Searle, Khalid Aadan, Qiuxin Du, Tao Bi. [doi]
• Toward Metaphor-Fluid Conversation Design for Voice User InterfacesSmit Desai, Jessie Chin, Dakuo Wang, Benjamin R. Cowan, Michael B. Twidale. [doi]
• Who Is Accountable When the Agent Speaks? Toward Accountability Graphs for Conversational AI ChainsMehmet Haklidir. [doi]
• Beyond Emotional Mirroring: Understanding Affective Alignment in Artist-in-the-Loop Art ChatbotsJinyu Liu, Effie L.-C. Law. [doi]
• Exploring Perceptions of Robo-advisors for Personal InvestingOrla Cooney, Sophie J. Leonard, Paola Raquel Peña, Jaimy Hannah, Benjamin R. Cowan. [doi]
• ClariCheck: Flagging Unsupported Inferences in AI-Generated User PropositionsArnav Sharma, Dhruv Yadati. [doi]
• Beyond Benchmarks: A User-Centric Framework for Evaluating Large Language ModelsYasmeen Abdrabou, Yomna Abdelrahman, Efe Bozkir, Mazen Youssef, Florian Alt, Enkelejda Kasneci. [doi]
• Beliefs and Misconceptions around Integrated Conversational AIWilliam Seymour, Adam D. G. Jenkins, Mark Coté, Jose Such. [doi]
• AI Echoing in the Backstage: Private AI Consulting May Strengthens Confidence and Limits DepolarizationJoshua Mu-En Liu, Clarence Chi-Hong Weng, Yu-Hsuan Lin, Pang-Yu Hsiao, Yoyo Tsung-Yu Hou. [doi]
• First International Workshop on Conversational Interfaces for Agentic Web Browsing: Are We Ready to Move Beyond GUIs?Ludovica Piro, Heloisa Candello, Maristella Matera, Christine Murad. [doi]
• SPARC: Exploring Interaction, Sensemaking, and Engagement in AI-Augmented News ReadingMehrasa Amiri Besheli, Mahmood Jasim. [doi]
• ConvoDojo: Structured LLM-based Sparring Partners for Difficult Workplace ConversationsEverlyne Kimani Cross, Luiza Santos, Laurent Denoue, Scott A. Carter, Nayeli Suseth Bravo, Kate A. Sieck. [doi]
• KNIT-C: Exploring Conversational AI Facilitation of Group Convergence Through Computational Boundary ObjectsEcho (Chuqiao) Wan, Céline Mougenot, Malak Sadek. [doi]
• Synthetic Persuasion: An Exploratory Pre-Study on User Perception of Computer Voice PersuasivenessAlischa Leona Förster, Marc Schubhan, Paula Bräuer, Jeanine Kirchner-Krath, Katie Seaborn, Maximilian Altmeyer. [doi]
• Age-Inclusive Cognitive Monitoring in CUIs: How ASR Errors Affect Text-Based Dementia BiomarkersAndrew Murphy, Qi Chen, Kate Irene Forrest, Casey C. Bennett. [doi]
• Explanations as Dialogues: Toward Human-Centered Conversational Explainable AINiharika Mathur, Smit Desai. [doi]
• A Comparison of Speech and Typing Input for Creative Generative AI TasksNishant Rathore, Tushar Billakanti, Jessy Ceha, Jay Henderson. [doi]
• Embodying the Disney Method: A Multi-Avatar Conversational Interface for Structured BrainstormingAlexander Marquardt, David Golchinfar, Yume Masuya, Daryoush Daniel Vaziri, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa. [doi]
• Butlerliezer: Context- and Receiver-Aware Appropriately Deceptive Auto-Reply System based on Egocentric VideoAri Hautasaari, Yuta Kibayashi, Rintaro Chujo, Yuji Hatada, Takeshi Naemura. [doi]
• Who is Responsible for Teens' AI Companion Overreliance? Reddit Community Responses to Disclosures of Teens' Overreliance on Character.AIMohammad (Matt) Namvarpour, Ananya Mhetras, Jessica Y. Medina, Mamtaj Akter, Afsaneh Razi. [doi]
• How Authoritative Can Synthetic Voices Sound? Prosodic Manipulation and Perceptual Evaluation Across Two Text-to-Speech PlatformsHedi Tebourbi, Anthony Stassart, Shadi Rastegar, Sheetal Vijapurapu, Anastasia Sergeeva, Anna Leschanowsky. [doi]
• Reaching the last mile? How Design Decisions Shape Medical Device Qualification and Classification of Patient Support Chatbots In The EUMilo Marsfeldt Skovfoged, Frantisek Kasl, Michal Koscík, Pavel Loutocký, Václav Stupka, Robert Mikulík, Hendrik Knoche. [doi]
• Is CUI a Dated Way of Saying LLM?James Simpson. [doi]
• Is ChatGPT Gender-Neutral? Implicit Stereotyping Persists Over Time and With ExperienceMadeleine Steeds, Katie Seaborn, Takao Fujii, Orla Cooney, Iona Gessinger. [doi]
• Emerging Risks of Conversational AIManveer Kalirai, Christina Ziying Wei, Thomas Eßmeyer, Nima Zargham, Sviatlana Höhn, Smit Desai, Minha Lee, Heloisa Candello, Anastasia Kuzminykh. [doi]
• Is Your Request Worthy Enough?Juri Sanni, Alessandro Ianniello, Maria Luce Lupetti. [doi]
• Using Anti-Values as Conversational AI Design Constraints: Deciding on What We Shouldn't BuildMalak Sadek, Céline Mougenot. [doi]
• Talk Healthy To Me: Opportunities and Challenges of Conversational User Interfaces for Digital Public HealthMaría Dech Pons, Bastian Brandes, Julia Heiken, Thomas Eßmeyer, Henrik Hubertus Josef Detjen, Anke V. Reinschluessel, Nadine Wagener. [doi]
• CineTalk: Designing an LLM Chatbot for Exploring Diverse Perspectives in Digital Content AppreciationGahyeon Bae, Gahyeon Kim, Hyun Seung Moon, Tak Yeon Lee, Hwajung Hong. [doi]
• Do Prompt-Level Empathy Instructions Influence User Experience? Evidence From A Controlled Chatbot StudyArndt Bieberstein, Benjamin Lukas Schnitzer, Stefano Gampe, Oliver Korn. [doi]
• Technically Love: The Evolution of Human-AI Romance Discourse on RedditTyler Chang, Jina Huh-Yoo, Afsaneh Razi. [doi]
• The Role of Generative Summarisation in Agent-Mediated Reflection for Youth Social PrescribingMinseo Cho, Martina C. Di Simplicio, Rafael A Calvo. [doi]
• Conversational User Interfaces in Healthcare: A Scoping Review of ACM CUI Conference ContributionsNidhi Kothari, Andreia Valente, Mark Billinghurst. [doi]
• The Dangerous Allure of Science-Fiction in Conversational User InterfacesMatthew Peter Aylett, Bruce W. Wilson. [doi]
• The Illusion of Conversational User InterfacesBradley Rey, Casey C. Bennett, Minha Lee. [doi]
• DeMention: A Modular System for Speech-Based Alzheimer's Dementia ScreeningJordan Behrendt, Elisa Brauße, Rathi Adarshi Rammohan, Tanja Schultz. [doi]
• Humans Fine-TunedNatalia Tyulina. [doi]
• Conversational Pedagogy Shapes Articulation in AI-Supported Art ViewingAubrey Reanna Cantrell, Orit Shaer. [doi]
• Introducing Persona Ecosystem Playground (PEP): Generating Behaviorally Grounded Personas from Think-Aloud SessionsDanial Amin 0001, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen. [doi]
• Designing a Feedback Loop Between a Human and Their AI Clones for Science Communication in MuseumsShutaro Aoyama, Kiyoshi Suganuma, He Jiang, Shunichi Kasahara. [doi]
• Ghosting the Machine: Stop Calling Human-Agent Relations ParasocialJaime Banks. [doi]
• Who Does Your AI Work For? Designing Conversational Agents as Digital FiduciariesJacob Erickson. [doi]
• Navigating Transitions: Envisioning Conversational User Interfaces to Support International StudentsYuhui Xu, Isabel Blijenburg, Bhakti Moghe, Maarten Houben, Daniel Tetteroo, Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn, Minha Lee. [doi]
• When More Is Not Better: Multimodal Information Efficiency in Conversational InterfacesXin Chen, Huiting Shi, Henglei Zhao. [doi]
• Same, Same But Different? A Cross-Domain Analysis of Chatbot User InterfacesJohanna Rockstroh, Laura Spillner, Nina Wenig, Thomas Eßmeyer, Nima Zargham, Rainer Malaka. [doi]
• Design and Evaluation of ChatBlend: A Framework and Card Deck for the Human-Centered Design of Mental Health Chatbots in Blended CarePenelope Rekkas, Katrien Verbert, Vero Vanden Abeele. [doi]
• What Counts as Proactive? Rethinking Proactivity in Conversational AgentsMatthias Kraus 0001, Sebastian Zepf, Jan Leusmann, Shiyao Zhang 0002, Anastasia Kuzminykh, Nima Zargham. [doi]