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Benjamin R. Cowan

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

49

Venues

13

Active years

2011–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

49 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026CHIHelp me and I'll help you: Speakers' and listeners' collaborative effort and the division of labour in human-agent collaborative communication.Paola Raquel Pea, Benjamin R. Cowan
2026EAMTARTICULATE: Science in your Own Language.Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez, Matthew P. Aylett, Benjamin R. Cowan, Justin Edwards, Sanna Jrvel, Ioannis Konstas, Madeleine Steeds
2026HRICollaborating with Conversational Agents: Perspective Taking, Partner Modelling and the Division of Communicative Labour (Keynote).Benjamin R. Cowan
2026HRIEmpowering Human-Robot Communication through Non-linguistic Pathways.Rachel Ringe, Nima Zargham, Mihai Pomarlan, Benjamin R. Cowan, Minha Lee, Donald McMillan, Matthew Peter Aylett
2025CBMIA Comparative Study of Conversational and Conventional Search Methods for Image Retrieval.Anastasiia Potiagalova, Joemon J. Jose, Benjamin R. Cowan, Gareth J. F. Jones
2025IVADEBP-PVA: Designing and Evaluating Behavioral Paradigms With Proactive Virtual Agents.Alafate Abulimiti, Paola Raquel Pea, Fatemeh Alizadeh, Shashank Ahire, Heloisa Candello, Smit Desai, Justin Edwards, Yuan He, Darragh Higgins, Alberto Jovane, Matthias Kraus, Guy Laban, Rachel McDonnell, Jairo Prez-Osorio, Tanja Schneeberger, Jaisie Sin, Tobias Thejll-Madsen, Nima Zargham, Benjamin R. Cowan
2025IVACollaboration Under Uncertainty: Perspective Asymmetry and Reference Production of Homophone Objects in Human-Agent Collaborative Communication.Paola Raquel Pea, Benjamin R. Cowan
2024CHICUI@CHI 2024: Building Trust in CUIs - From Design to Deployment.Smit Desai, Christina Ziying Wei, Jaisie Sin, Mateusz Dubiel, Nima Zargham, Shashank Ahire, Martin Porcheron, Anastasia Kuzminykh, Minha Lee, Heloisa Candello, Joel E. Fischer, Cosmin Munteanu, Benjamin R. Cowan
2024CHICooking With Agents: Designing Context-aware Voice Interaction.Razan Jaber, Sabrina Zhong, Sanna Kuoppamki, Aida Hosseini, Iona Gessinger, Duncan P. Brumby, Benjamin R. Cowan, Donald McMillan
2024InterspeechThe Use of Modifiers and f0 in Remote Referential Communication with Human and Computer Partners.Iona Gessinger, Bistra Andreeva, Benjamin R. Cowan
2023CHIAbout Engaging and Governing Strategies: A Thematic Analysis of Dark Patterns in Social Networking Services.Thomas Mildner, Gian-Luca Savino, Philip R. Doyle, Benjamin R. Cowan, Rainer Malaka
2023CHIA Special Interest Group on Developing Theories of Language Use in Interaction with Conversational User Interfaces.Paola Raquel Pea, Philip R. Doyle, Emily Yj Ip, Giovanni M. Di Liberto, Darragh Higgins, Rachel McDonnell, Holly P. Branigan, Joakim Gustafson, Donald McMillan, Robert J. Moore, Benjamin R. Cowan
2023CHI[email protected]: Inclusive Design of CUIs Across Modalities and Mobilities.Jaisie Sin, Heloisa Candello, Leigh Clark, Benjamin R. Cowan, Minha Lee, Cosmin Munteanu, Martin Porcheron, Sarah Theres Vlkel, Stacy M. Branham, Robin N. Brewer, Ana Paula Chaves, Razan Jaber, Amanda Lazar
2023HRIHuman-Robot Conversational Interaction (HRCI).Donald McMillan, Razan Jaber, Benjamin R. Cowan, Joel E. Fischer, Bahar Irfan, Ronald Cumbal, Nima Zargham, Minha Lee
2023ICMIMultimodal Conversational Agents for People with Neurodevelopmental Disorders.Fabio Catania, Tanya Talkar, Franca Garzotto, Benjamin R. Cowan, Thomas F. Quatieri, Satrajit S. Ghosh
2023InterspeechCross-linguistic Emotion Perception in Human and TTS Voices.Iona Gessinger, Michelle Cohn, Benjamin R. Cowan, Georgia Zellou, Bernd Mbius
2022ASSETSExploring Smart Speaker User Experience for People Who Stammer.Anna Bleakley, Daniel Rough, Abi Roper, Stephen Lindsay, Martin Porcheron, Minha Lee, Stuart Alan Nicholson, Benjamin R. Cowan, Leigh Clark
2022CHIThe Last Decade of HCI Research on Children and Voice-based Conversational Agents.Radhika Garg, Hua Cui, Spencer Seligson, Bo Zhang, Martin Porcheron, Leigh Clark, Benjamin R. Cowan, Erin Beneteau
2022CHIEthics of Conversational User Interfaces.Minha Lee, Jaisie Sin, Guy Laban, Matthias Kraus, Leigh Clark, Martin Porcheron, Benjamin R. Cowan, Asbjrn Flstad, Cosmin Munteanu, Heloisa Candello
2022LRECRoomReader: A Multimodal Corpus of Online Multiparty Conversational Interactions.Justine Reverdy, Sam O'Connor Russell, Louise Duquenne, Diego Garaialde, Benjamin R. Cowan, Naomi Harte
2021CHIWhat Do We See in Them? Identifying Dimensions of Partner Models for Speech Interfaces Using a Psycholexical Approach.Philip R. Doyle, Leigh Clark, Benjamin R. Cowan
2021CHIA Special Interest Group on Designed and Engineered Friction in Interaction.Sandy J. J. Gould, Lewis L. Chuang, Ioanna Iacovides, Diego Garaialde, Marta E. Cecchinato, Benjamin R. Cowan, Anna L. Cox
2021CHIHeuristic Evaluation of Conversational Agents.Raina Langevin, Ross J. Lordon, Thi Avrahami, Benjamin R. Cowan, Tad Hirsch, Gary Hsieh
2021CHILet's Talk About CUIs: Putting Conversational User Interface Design Into Practice.Christine Murad, Cosmin Munteanu, Benjamin R. Cowan, Leigh Clark, Martin Porcheron, Heloisa Candello, Stephan Schlgl, Matthew P. Aylett, Jaisie Sin, Robert J. Moore, Grace Hughes, Andrew Ku
2021CHIEliciting and Analysing Users' Envisioned Dialogues with Perfect Voice Assistants.Sarah Theres Vlkel, Daniel Buschek, Malin Eiband, Benjamin R. Cowan, Heinrich Hussmann
2021CSCW[email protected]: Inclusive and Collaborative Child-facing Voice Technologies.Radhika Garg, Martin Porcheron, Leigh Clark, Benjamin R. Cowan, Asbjrn Flstad, Bo Zhang, Jeni Paay, Ewa Luger
2021IUI[email protected]: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Intelligent Conversational User Interface Interactions.Philip R. Doyle, Daniel John Rough, Justin Edwards, Benjamin R. Cowan, Leigh Clark, Martin Porcheron, Stephan Schlgl, Mara Ins Torres, Cosmin Munteanu, Christine Murad, Jaisie Sin, Minha Lee, Matthew Peter Aylett, Heloisa Candello
2020CHICUI@CHI: Mapping Grand Challenges for the Conversational User Interface Community.Heloisa Candello, Cosmin Munteanu, Leigh Clark, Jaisie Sin, Mara Ins Torres, Martin Porcheron, Chelsea M. Myers, Benjamin R. Cowan, Joel E. Fischer, Stephan Schlgl, Christine Murad, Stuart Reeves
2020CSCWCUI@CSCW: Collaborating through Conversational User Interfaces.Martin Porcheron, Leigh Clark, Matt Jones, Heloisa Candello, Benjamin R. Cowan, Christine Murad, Jaisie Sin, Matthew P. Aylett, Minha Lee, Cosmin Munteanu, Joel E. Fischer, Philip R. Doyle, Jofish Kaye
2020EAMTMT syntactic priming effects on L2 English speakers.Natlia Resende, Benjamin R. Cowan, Andy Way
2020IUICUI: Conversational User Interfaces: A Workshop on New Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives for Researching Speech-based Conversational Interactions.Cosmin Munteanu, Leigh Clark, Benjamin R. Cowan, Stephan Schlgl, Mara Ins Torres, Justin Edwards, Christine Murad, Matthew P. Aylett, Martin Porcheron, Heloisa Candello, Philip R. Doyle, Jaisie Sin
2019CHISiri, Echo and Performance: You have to Suffer Darling.Matthew P. Aylett, Benjamin R. Cowan, Leigh Clark
2019CHIMapping Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives for Understanding Speech Interface Interactions.Leigh Clark, Benjamin R. Cowan, Justin Edwards, Cosmin Munteanu, Christine Murad, Matthew P. Aylett, Roger K. Moore, Jens Edlund, va Szkely, Patrick Healey, Naomi Harte, Ilaria Torre, Philip R. Doyle
2019CHIWhat Makes a Good Conversation?: Challenges in Designing Truly Conversational Agents.Leigh Clark, Nadia Pantidi, Orla Cooney, Philip R. Doyle, Diego Garaialde, Justin Edwards, Brendan Spillane, Emer Gilmartin, Christine Murad, Cosmin Munteanu, Vincent Wade, Benjamin R. Cowan
2019CHIPush Away the Smartphone: Investigating Methods to Counter Problematic Smartphone Use.Charlie Pinder, Jos Ignacio Rocca, Benjamin R. Cowan, Russell Beale
2017CHIDesigning Speech, Acoustic and Multimodal Interactions.Cosmin Munteanu, Pourang Irani, Sharon L. Oviatt, Matthew P. Aylett, Gerald Penn, Shimei Pan, Nikhil Sharma, Frank Rudzicz, Randy Gomez, Benjamin R. Cowan, Keisuke Nakamura
2017CogSciThey Know as Much as We Do: Knowledge Estimation and Partner Modelling of Artificial Partners.Benjamin R. Cowan, Holly P. Branigan, Habiba Begum, Lucy McKenna, va Szkely
2017ICMISocial talk: making conversation with people and machine.Emer Gilmartin, Marine Collery, Ketong Su, Yuyun Huang, Christy Elias, Benjamin R. Cowan, Nick Campbell
2017ICMIDialog acts in greeting and leavetaking in social talk.Emer Gilmartin, Brendan Spillane, Maria O'Reilly, Ketong Su, Christian Saam, Benjamin R. Cowan, Nick Campbell, Vincent Wade
2017ICMIIntroducing ADELE: a personalized intelligent companion.Brendan Spillane, Emer Gilmartin, Christian Saam, Ketong Su, Benjamin R. Cowan, Samus Lawless, Vincent Wade
2017InterspeechThe Influence of Synthetic Voice on the Evaluation of a Virtual Character.Joo Paulo Cabral, Benjamin R. Cowan, Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell
2016CHITowards Understanding How Speech Output Affects Navigation System Credibility.Benjamin R. Cowan, Derek Gannon, Jenny Walsh, Justin Kinneen, Eanna O'Keefe, Linxin Xie
2015InterspeechDoes voice anthropomorphism affect lexical alignment in speech-based human-computer dialogue?Benjamin R. Cowan, Holly P. Branigan
2014CHIInteraction science SIG: overcoming challenges.Andrew Howes, Benjamin R. Cowan, Christian P. Janssen, Anna Louise Cox, Paul A. Cairns, Anthony J. Hornof, Stephen J. Payne, Peter Pirolli
2013CHIThe stroppy kettle: an intervention to break energy consumption habits.Benjamin R. Cowan, Chris P. Bowers, Russell Beale, Charlie Pinder
2013CHITake it personally: personal accountability and energy consumption in domestic households.Yukang Guo, Matt Jones, Benjamin R. Cowan, Russell Beale
2011CHIInvestigating syntactic alignment in spoken natural language human-computer communication.Benjamin R. Cowan, Russell Beale, Holly P. Branigan
2011CHIUnderstanding and designing cool technologies for teenagers.Janet C. Read, Daniel Fitton, Benjamin R. Cowan, Russell Beale, Yukang Guo, Matthew Horton
2011InteractChoosing your Moment: Interruptions in Multimedia Annotation.Chris P. Bowers, William Byrne, Benjamin R. Cowan, Chris Creed, Robert J. Hendley, Russell Beale