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DAPIE: Interactive Step-by-Step Explanatory Dialogues to Answer Children’s Why and How Questions

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Lee, Yoonjoo, Kim, Tae Soo, Kim, Sungdong, Yun, Yohan, Kim, Juho·2023·Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Children acquire an understanding of the world by asking “why” and “how” questions. Conversational agents (CAs) like smart speakers or voice assistants can be promising respondents to children’s questions as they are more readily available than parents or teachers. However, CAs’ answers to “why” and “how” questions are not designed for children, as they can be difficult to understand and provide little interactivity to engage the child. In this work, we propose design guidelines for creating interactive dialogues that promote children’s engagement and help them understand explanations. Applying these guidelines, we propose DAPIE, a system that answers children’s questions through interactive dialogue by employing an AI-based pipeline that automatically transforms existing long-form answers from online sources into such dialogues. A user study (N=16) showed that, with DAPIE, children performed better in an immediate understanding assessment while also reporting higher enjoyment than when explanations were presented sentence-by-sentence.

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Authors
Lee, Y., Kim, T. S., Kim, S., Yun, Y., & Kim, J.
Affiliations
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KR)
  • NAVER Cloud (South Korea) (KR)
Venue
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2023-04-19
Pages
1-22
OpenAlex
W4366550149
Cited by
35
References
67
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 17
FWCI
6.20
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
Funders
KAIST-NAVER Hypercreative AI Center
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech and dialogue systems
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
Keywords
children's questions, chatbots, interactive dialogue, design guidelines, child engagement, voice assistants

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