naoto<p><a href="https://social.toplap.org/tags/HCIReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HCIReview</span></a> Music, Search, and IoT: How People (Really) Use Voice Assistants (<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3311956" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/331</span><span class="invisible">1956</span></a>) - TOCHI ‘19, study on the use of Alexa and Google Home during 2015-2017 with 82 and 88 log collected respectively. 19 interviews were conducted (recruited via Reddit) and inductive coding. Note that 3/4 of the authors are from the industry (Mozilla and Verizon). Most of the uses are playing music, then web search and controlling IoT, but it is still immature (macros need to be set, and the protocol is not standardized - as in 7-challenge paper in ‘01). Privacy issues are mentioned but only scratching from the user point of view (suggesting to indicate muted or not via LED) not critical enough from the security standpoint. For example the comment that switching off voice assistant while having sex but it doesn’t matter when talking to the partner about hummus recipe sounds like an interesting one because obviously Amazon would know who to sell sex toys and chickpeas</p>