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2020
Conference Paper
Titel
User Preference and Categories for Error Responses in Conversational User Interfaces
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Paper presented at 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2020, July 22-24, 2020, Bilbao, Spain
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Benutzereinstellungen und Kategorien für Fehlerantworten in Konversationsbenutzeroberflächen
Abstract
Error messages are frequent in interactions with Conversational User Interfaces (CUI). Smart speakers respond to about every third user request with an error message. Errors can heavily affect user experience (UX) in interaction with CUI. However, there is limited research on how error responses should be formulated. In this paper, we present a system to study how people classify different categories (acknowledgement of user sentiment, acknowledgement of error and apology) of error messages, and evaluate peoples preference of error responses with clear categories. The results indicate that if an error response has only one element (i.e. neutral acknowledgement of error, apology or sentiment), responses that acknowledge errors neutrally are preferred by participants. Moreover, we find that when interviewed, participants like error messages to include an apology, an explanation of what went wrong, and a suggestion how to fix the problem in addition to a neutral acknowledgement of an error. Our study has two main contributions: (1) our results inform about the design of error messages and (2) we present a framework for error response categorization and validation.
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