short-paper

Conservation Through Conversation - A Provocation

Author:

Daniel RoughAuthors Info & Claims

CUI '21: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

Article No.: 7, Pages 1 - 3

https://doi.org/10.1145/3469595.3469602

Published: 27 July 2021 Publication History

Abstract

The world is in the midst of an ecological crisis. Biodiversity is plummeting, the ice caps are melting, rainforest wildlife is being slaughtered wholesale for palm oil plantations, and we’re consuming far too much of the planet’s resources. The volume of carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere, warming our planet, and destroying the environment, is unsustainable. CUI research won’t matter if humanity itself can’t provide its side of the conversation. This is everyone’s problem, and everyone can be part of the solution, whether it’s eating less meat or not binning our recyclables. Can we, as CUI researchers, do anything more specific? I think we can, and should, be making the conversation about conservation.

References

[1]

2015. Bold steps: Japan’s remedy for a rapidly aging society - The Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/retirement/retire-planning/how-japan-is-coping-with-a-rapidly-aging-population/article27259703/

[2]

2019. Artificial Intelligence and Conservation. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108587792

[3]

Kenneth Arrow, Bert Bolin, Robert Costanza, Partha Dasgupta, Carl Folke, C.S. Holling, Bengt-Owe Jansson, Simon Levin, Karl-Göran Mäler, Charles Perrings, and David Pimentel. 1995. Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment. Ecological Economics 15, 2 (1995), 91–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/0921-8009(95)00059-3

[4]

David Attenborough. 2020. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future. Random House.

[5]

Ana Caraban, Evangelos Karapanos, Daniel Gonçalves, and Pedro Campos. 2019. 23 Ways to Nudge: A Review of Technology-Mediated Nudging in Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–15.

Digital Library

[6]

Kate Ferris, Gonzalo Garcia Martinez, Greg Wadley, and Kathryn Williams. 2020. Melbourne 2100: Dystopian Virtual Reality to Provoke Civic Engagement with Climate Change. In 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Sydney, NSW, Australia) (OzCHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 392–402. https://doi.org/10.1145/3441000.3441029

Digital Library

[7]

Jan Gulliksen. 2017. Institutionalizing human-computer interaction for global health. Global health action 10, sup3 (2017), 1344003.

[8]

Chris Huntingford, Elizabeth S Jeffers, Michael B Bonsall, Hannah M Christensen, Thomas Lees, and Hui Yang. 2019. Machine learning and artificial intelligence to aid climate change research and preparedness. Environmental Research Letters 14, 12 (2019), 124007.

[9]

Timo Jakobi, Gunnar Stevens, Nico Castelli, Corinna Ogonowski, Florian Schaub, Nils Vindice, Dave Randall, Peter Tolmie, and Volker Wulf. 2018. Evolving needs in iot control and accountability: A longitudinal study on smart home intelligibility. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 2, 4 (2018), 1–28.

Digital Library

[10]

Tae Woo Kim and Adam Duhachek. 2020. Artificial Intelligence and persuasion: a construal-level account. Psychological science 31, 4 (2020), 363–380.

[11]

Clifford Nass, Jonathan Steuer, and Ellen R. Tauber. 1994. Computers Are Social Actors. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, Massachusetts, USA) (CHI ’94). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 72–78. https://doi.org/10.1145/191666.191703

Digital Library

[12]

Sven Nyholm and Jilles Smids. 2020. Can a Robot Be a Good Colleague?Science and Engineering Ethics 26, 4 (aug 2020), 2169–2188. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-019-00172-6

[13]

Alex B Van Zant and Jonah Berger. 2020. How the voice persuades.Journal of personality and social psychology 118, 4(2020), 661.

[14]

Tan Yigitcanlar, Luke Butler, Emily Windle, Kevin C. Desouza, Rashid Mehmood, and Juan M. Corchado. 2020. Can Building “Artificially Intelligent Cities” Safeguard Humanity from Natural Disasters, Pandemics, and Other Catastrophes? An Urban Scholar’s Perspective. Sensors 20, 10 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/s20102988

[15]

Naoyuki Yoshino and Hiroaki Miyamoto. 2017. Declined effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policies faced with aging population in Japan. Japan and the World Economy 42 (2017), 32–44.

Cited By

Sanguinetti MAtzori M(2024)Conversational Agents for Energy Awareness and Efficiency: A SurveyElectronics10.3390/electronics1302040113:2(401)Online publication date: 18-Jan-2024
https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13020401
Giudici MCrovari PGarzotto F(2023)Leafy: Enhancing Home Energy Efficiency through Gamified Experience with a Conversational Smart MirrorProceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good10.1145/3582515.3609526(128-134)Online publication date: 6-Sep-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3582515.3609526
Giudici MCrovari PGarzotto F(2022)CANDY: a framework to design Conversational AgeNts for Domestic sustainabilitYProceedings of the 4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces10.1145/3543829.3544515(1-8)Online publication date: 26-Jul-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543829.3544515

Recommendations

Creation through Conversation - A Provocation
CUI '23: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

(A sonnet)

A new force awakened this year ’23.

A friend, or a foe, or a weapon - all three?

Too early to say, but too plainly to see;

that this is the Year Of The ChatGPT.

Does this spell the end of CUI as we know it?

If so, can we stop it, or ...
Effect of Speech Entrainment in Human-Computer Conversation: A Review
Intelligent Human Computer Interaction
Abstract
The phenomenon of entrainment in conversation is the process where participants become more similar to each other in terms of different verbal and non-verbal aspects such as acoustic-prosodic, lexical, syntactic, pitch, and speech rate. This ...
Conversation is multimodal: thus conversational user interfaces should be as well
CUI '19: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

In this paper we try to provoke by teasing the question "if conversational user interfaces should be multimodal?". Of course they should! In decades of research in multimodal HCI excellent arguments can be found. We substantiate our perspective with an ...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Other conferences

CUI '21: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

July 2021

262 pages

ISBN:9781450389983

DOI:10.1145/3469595

Copyright © 2021 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 27 July 2021

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Short-paper
Research
Refereed limited

Conference

CUI '21

CUI '21: CUI 2021 - 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

July 27 - 29, 2021

Bilbao (online), Spain

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 34 of 100 submissions, 34%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

3
Total Citations
View Citations
156
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)18
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)2

Reflects downloads up to 19 Nov 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Sanguinetti MAtzori M(2024)Conversational Agents for Energy Awareness and Efficiency: A SurveyElectronics10.3390/electronics1302040113:2(401)Online publication date: 18-Jan-2024
https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13020401
Giudici MCrovari PGarzotto F(2023)Leafy: Enhancing Home Energy Efficiency through Gamified Experience with a Conversational Smart MirrorProceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good10.1145/3582515.3609526(128-134)Online publication date: 6-Sep-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3582515.3609526
Giudici MCrovari PGarzotto F(2022)CANDY: a framework to design Conversational AgeNts for Domestic sustainabilitYProceedings of the 4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces10.1145/3543829.3544515(1-8)Online publication date: 26-Jul-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543829.3544515

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

HTML Format

View this article in HTML Format.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents