Fraser Allison

Cybernetic Funeral Systems

M Arnold, H Gould, T Kohn, B Nansen, F Allison

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  2021 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century: Being Human in a Global Village, 21CW 2021

Using Postphenomenology (one of many methods informed by Wiener's cybernetics) as an analytical approach, this paper examines thre..

Understanding the Utility of Digital Flight Assistants: A Preliminary Analysis

Sarah Gosper, Johanne Trippas, Harriette Richards, Fraser Allison, Cynthia Sear, Sara Khorasani, Fabio Mattioli

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI ’21)

Interactions with intelligent systems have become common in domestic and professional life. However, little is known about how pil..

“Hi! I am the Crowd Tasker” Crowdsourcing through Digital Voice Assistants

Danula Hettiachchi, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Fraser Allison, Niels van Berkel, Tilman Dingler, Gabriele Marini, Vassilis Kostakos, Jorge Goncalves

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '20

Inspired by the increasing prevalence of digital voice assistants, we demonstrate the feasibility of using voice interfaces to dep..

Word Play: A History of Voice Interaction in Digital Games

F Allison, M Carter, M Gibbs

Journal article  |  2020  |  Games and Culture

The use of voice interaction in digital games has a long and varied history of experimentation but has never achieved sustained, w..

Voice interaction game design and gameplay

Fraser John Allison

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2020

This thesis is concerned with the phenomenon of voice-operated interaction with characters and environments in videogames. Voice i..

Frame analysis of voice interaction gameplay

F Allison, J Newn, W Smith, M Carter, M Gibbs

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Voice control is an increasingly common feature of digital games, but the experience of playing with voice control is often hamper..

Guilt in DayZ

Marcus Carter, Fraser Allison

Book Chapter  |  2019

Death in most games is simply a metaphor for failure (Bartle 2010). Killing another player in a first-person shooter (FPS) game su..

Designing Interactions with Intention-Aware Gaze-Enabled Artificial Agents

Joshua Newn, Ronal Singh, Fraser Allison, Prashan Madumal, Eduardo Velloso, Frank Vetere

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence

As it becomes more common for humans to work alongside artificial agents on everyday tasks, it is increasingly important to design..

Enabling Creative Crowd Work through Smart Speakers

Danula Hettiachchi, Niels van Berkel, Tilman Dingler, Fraser Allison, Vassilis Kostakos, Jorge Goncalves

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019 Extended Abstracts

Digital voice assistants or smart speakers have rapidly changed the landscape of voice user interfaces over the past few years. In..

How Players Speak to an Intelligent Game Character Using Natural Language Messages

Fraser Allison, Ewa Luger, Katja Hofmann

Journal article  |  2018  |  Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association

AI-driven characters that learn directly from human input are rare in digital games, but recent advances in several fields of mach..