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Virtual assistant focused user interfaces
Fred A. Brown,Tanya M. Miller,Richard Stuart Morris +2 more
- 18 Mar 2014
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TL;DR: In this paper, conversation user interfaces that are configured for virtual assistant interaction may include contextual interface items that are based on contextual information, such as a current or previous conversation between a user and a virtual assistant.
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Abstract: Conversation user interfaces that are configured for virtual assistant interaction may include contextual interface items that are based on contextual information. The contextual information may relate to a current or previous conversation between a user and a virtual assistant and/or may relate to other types of information, such as a location of a user, an orientation of a device, missing information, and so on. The conversation user interfaces may additionally, or alternatively, control an input mode based on contextual information, such as an inferred input mode of a user or a location of a user. Further, the conversation user interfaces may tag conversation items by saving the conversation items to a tray and/or associating the conversation items with indicators.
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