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Imagining future digital assistants at work: A study of task management needs

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posted on 2024-03-11, 00:26 authored by Y Khaokaew, I Holcombe-James, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, J Liono, JR Trippas, D Spina, P Bailey, NJ Belkin, PN Bennett, Y Ren, M Sanderson, F Scholer, RW White, FD Salim
Digital Assistants (DAs) can support workers in the workplace and beyond. However, target user needs are not fully understood, and the functions that workers would ideally want a DA to support require further study. A richer understanding of worker needs could help inform the design of future DAs. We investigate user needs of future workplace DAs using data from a user study of 40 workers over a four-week period. Our qualitative analysis confirms existing research and generates new insight on the role of DAs in managing people's time, tasks, and information. Placing these insights in relation to quantitative analysis of self-reported task data, we highlight how different occupation roles require DAs to take varied approaches to these domains and the effect of task characteristics on the imagined features. Our findings have implications for the design of future DAs in work settings and we offer some recommendations for reduction to practice.

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Category 3 - Industry and Other Research Income

History

Volume

168

Start Page

1

End Page

17

Number of Pages

17

eISSN

1095-9300

ISSN

1071-5819

Publisher

Elsevier

Language

en

Peer Reviewed

  • Yes

Open Access

  • No

Acceptance Date

2022-08-05

Era Eligible

  • Yes

Journal

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Article Number

102905

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