Best Paper and Honourable Mention awards
At every annual CUI conference, Best Paper and Honourable Mention awards are awarded given to the top of papers submitted to the conference. Nominations for awards are made through the peer review process, and the final decision is made either by the General Chairs of the conference, or a specially convened subcommittee.
CUI 2023
4 Best Paper awards and 3 Honourable Mention awards were given in 2023.
Best Paper awards
- Self-imposed Filter Bubble Model for Argumentative Dialogues
Annalena Bea Aicher, Daniel Kornmüller, Wolfgang Minker, and Stefan Ultes - Unified Conversational Models with System-Initiated Transitions between Chit-Chat and Task-Oriented Dialogues
Ye Liu, Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Minker, and Wolfgang Maier - Voice Assistant Use in Long-Term Care
Bruna Oewel, Tawfiq Ammari, and Robin N Brewer - Who are CUIs Really For? Representation and Accessibility in the Conversational User Interface Literature
William Seymour, Xiao Zhan, Mark Cote, and Jose Such
Honourable Mention awards
- Developing a Conversational Interface for an ACT-based Online Program: Understanding Adolescents’ Expectations of Conversational Style
Johanna Peltola, Kirsikka Kaipainen, Katariina Keinonen, Noona Kiuru, and Markku Turunen - Enabling Semi-Structured Knowledge Access via a Question-Answering Module in Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
Norbert Braunschweiler, Rama Sanand Doddipatla, Simon Keizer, and Svetlana Stoyanchev - From Writing Dialogue to Designing Conversation: Considering the potential of Conversation Analysis for Voice User Interfaces
Adam Brandt, Spencer Hazel, Rory McKinnon, Kleopatra Sideridou, Joe Tindale, and Nikoletta Ventoura
Outstanding Service award
Justin Edwards (Hybrid Chair)The CUI 2023 General Chairs awarded Justin Edwards an Outstanding Service award for his unparalleled committment to supoorting and running the conference audio-video as well as all hybrid and virtual attendance activities. Justin went above and beyond to make CUI 2023 a success and we are ever so grateful to his kindness and dedication.
CUI 2022
3 Best Paper awards and 2 Honourable Mention awards were given in 2022.
Best Paper awards
- Can you meaningfully consent in eight seconds? Identifying Ethical Issues with Verbal Consent for Voice Assistants
William Seymour, Mark Coté and Jose Such - Effects of Wording and Gendered Voices on Acceptability of Voice Assistants in Future Autonomous Vehicles
Iris Jestin, Joel E Fischer, Maria Jose Galvez Trigo, David Large, and Gary Burnett - Where is Vincent? Expanding our emotional selves with AI
Minha Lee, Lily Frank, Yvonne De Kort, and Wijnand IJsselsteijn
Honourable Mention awards
- A Blueprint for Integrating Task-Oriented Conversational Agents in Education Poster
Juan Carlos Farah, Basile Spaenlehauer, Sandy Ingram, and Denis Gillet - Should Alexa be a Police Officer, a Doctor, or a Priest?
James Simpson and Cassandra Crone
CUI 2021
2 Best Paper awards and 4 Honourable Mention awards were given in 2021.
Best Paper awards
- Synthesizing a human-like voice is the easy way
Sébastien Le Maguer and Benjamin Cowan - VUI Influencers: How the Media Portrays Voice User Interfaces for Older Adults
Jaisie Sin, Cosmin Munteanu, Numrita Ramanand, and Yi Rong Tan
Honourable Mention awards
- "Try, Try, Try Again": Sequence Analysis of Interactions with a Voice User Interface
Chelsea Myers, Luis Fernando Laris Pardo, Ana Acosta-Ruiz, Alessandro Canossa, and Jichen Zhu - Can I Talk to You about Your Social Needs? Understanding Preference for Conversational User Interface in Health
Rafal Kocielnik, Raina Langevin, James S George, Shota Akenaga, Amelia Wang, Darwin P Jones, Alexander Argyle, Callan Fockele, Layla Anderson, Dennis T Hsieh, Kabir Yadav, Herbert Duber, Gary Hsieh, and Andrea L Hartzler - Hey Google, Do You Have a Personality? Designing Personality and Personas for Conversational Agents
Alisha Pradhan and Amanda Lazar - Leaving the Butler Behind: The Future of Role Reproduction in CUI
Donald McMillan and Razan Jaber
CUI 2020
2 Best Paper awards and 4 Honourable Mention awards were given in 2020.
Best Paper awards
- Mental Workload and Language Production in Non-Native Speaker IPA Interaction
Yunhan Wu, Justin Edwards, Orla Cooney, Anna Bleakley, Philip R Doyle, Leigh Clark, Daniel Rough, and Benjamin R Cowan - The Lord of the (speaking) Rings: An interdisciplinary Fellowship to deal with 7 legal issues
Gianluigi Maria Riva and Marguerite Barry
Honourable Mention awards
- Decision Trees as Sociotechnical Objects in Chatbot Design
Teresa Castle-Green, Stuart Reeves, Joel E Fischer, and Boriana Koleva - Is your chatbot GDPR compliant? Open issues in agent design
Rahime Belen Sağlam and Jason Nurse - Persuasive Synthetic Speech: Voice Perception and User Behaviour
Mateusz Dubiel, Pilar Oplustil, Martin Halvey, and Simon King - What Can I Say? Effects of Discoverability in VUIs on Task Performance and User Experience
Philipp Kirschthaler, Martin Porcheron, and Joel E Fischer
CUI 2019
2 Best Paper awards and 4 Honourable Mention awards were given in 2019.
Best Paper awards
- Progressivity for Voice Interface Design
Joel E Fischer, Stuart Reeves, Martin Porcheron, and Rein Sikveland - Shoehorning in the Name of Science
Jens Edlund
Honourable Mention awards
- Crowdsourcing a self-evolving dialog graph
Patrik Jonell, Per Fallgren, Fethiye Irmak Doğan, José Lopes, Ulme Wennberg, and Gabriel Skantze - I Don’t Know What You’re Talking About, HALexa
Christine Murad and Cosmin Muntenau - What’s in an accent? The impact of accented synthetic speech on lexical choice in human-machine dialogue
Benjamin R Cowan, Philip Doyle, Justin Edwards, Diego Garaialde, Ali Hayes-Brady, Holly P Branigan, João Cabral, and Leigh Clark - Who owns your voice? Ethically sourced voices for non-commercial TTS applications
Kristen Scott, Simone Ashby, David Braude, and Matthew Aylett