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  1. Just A Rather Very Intelligent Spoken Agent

    Jul 18, 2026Chen Chen, Zhehuai ChenLong-Horizon Agent EvaluationHuman-AI Interaction

    NVIDIA

  2. Vision-Language Assistant for Emotional Reactions to Risky Driving

    Jul 17, 2026Harine Choi, Eun Hak Lee, Zhengzhong TuConversational AgentsEmotion-Aware Dialogue Generation

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 77840, College Station, Texas, United States · School of Railway Operation Systems, Kyungil University, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Republic of Korea

  3. Candidate Attended Dialogue State Tracking Using BERT

    Jul 17, 2026Junyuan Zheng, Onkar Salvi, John ChanZero-Shot LearningSpoken Dialogue Systems

    OneConnect US Research Institute, New York, NY, 10019

  4. Penny: Transition Network Analysis of Learner-Chatbot Interactions in Scaffolded EFL Writing

    Jul 16, 2026Steve Woollaston, Brendan Flanagan, Yuko Toyokawa +1Human-AI InteractionConversational Agents

    Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University, Japan · College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

  5. Mixed-Agent Museum Tour Guide Design Improves Gendered Learning Outcomes and Visitor Preferences

    Jul 16, 2026Annette M. Masterson, Wonse Jo, Helena C. Sieh +2AI in EducationConversational Agents

    School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States · A+HRI Laboratory, Department of Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea. · Department of Robotics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States +2

  6. Operationalising Multi-Dimensional Evaluation for Conversational Agents: A Scalable, Governed Pipeline with Selective Re-evaluation and Model Benchmarking

    Jul 13, 2026Niranjan Kumar M, Balaji Nagarajan, Karthik Nair +2Language Model Generation EvaluationCustomer Support Automation

    Lowe's

  7. Same Stories, Different Journeys: From Social Comparison to Sensemaking in AI-Mediated Peer Career Exploration

    Jul 13, 2026Pengping Tan, Baoquan Zhao, Zhenhui PengHuman-AI InteractionConversational Agents

    Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou, China · Sun Yat-sen University Zhuhai, China

  8. Towards Detecting Inconsistencies in End-to-end Generated TODs

    Jul 10, 2026Tiziano Labruna, Giovanni Bonetta, Bernardo MagniniLLM Hallucination DetectionConversational Agents

    Fondazione Bruno Kessler Povo, Trento, Italy

  9. LLMs for health: Perceived benefits, risks, intention to use AI chatbots, and willingness to self-disclose across sensitive health topics

    Jul 10, 2026Gwenn Beets, Anniek Jansen, Saar Hommes +6Human-AI InteractionConversational Agents

    Department of Communication and Cognition, Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands · Academic Collaborative Center for Digital Health and Mental Wellbeing, Department of Communication and Cognition, Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands · Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  10. Using AI-based Learning Assistants in Higher Education: A Large-Scale Descriptive Analysis

    Jul 9, 2026Kristina Schaaff, Quintus Stierstorfer, Valerie HekkelAI in EducationConversational Agents

    IU International University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt, Germany.

  11. The complexities of patient-centred conversational artificial intelligence

    Jul 9, 2026João Matos, Olivia Buege, Donny Cheung +8Clinical TriageConversational Agents

    Verily Health, Dallas, TX, USA · Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK · Department of Applied Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK +2

  12. Multimodal Voice Activity Projection for Turn-Taking in Social Robots with Voice-Activity-Related Pretrained Encoders

    Jul 8, 2026Antonio Cano, Guillermo Pérez, Luis Merino +1Conversational AgentsHuman-Robot Interaction

    4i Intelligent Insights, Seville, Spain · Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain · Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain +1

  13. TRACER: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented Dialogue

    Jul 4, 2026Erfan Nourbakhsh, Rocky Slavin, Ke Yang +1Spoken Dialogue SystemsFault Detection

    The University of Texas at San Antonio

  14. ProACT: Towards Breakdown-Aware Proactive Agent in Multi-User Collaboration

    Jul 4, 2026Shu Yang, Difei Xu, Jiaxin Pei +1LLM Agent EvaluationProactive Assistance

    1PRADA Lab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · 2Stanford University

  15. DiPS: Dialogue Policy Selection for High-Stakes Persuasion Agents

    Jul 2, 2026Tianyi Zhang, Mousumi Das, Abrar Anwar +2Conversational AgentsRL for LLM Agents

    University of Southern California

  16. Towards Developing a Multimodal Chat Assistant for University Stakeholders: RAG-based Approach

    Jul 1, 2026Md Abu Hanif Shaikh, Abdullah Al ShafiMultimodal RAGMultimodal QA

    Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Khulna, Bangladesh

  17. Behavior-Adaptive Conversational Agents: Toward a Fluid Personality Framework

    Jul 1, 2026Hasibur Rahman, Smit DesaiPersonality Modeling in Language ModelsConversational Agents

    Northeastern University Boston, MA, USA

  18. When the Database Fails: Prompting LLM Dialogue Agents for Safe Recovery in Task-Oriented Dialogue

    Jun 30, 2026Mohammad Alijanpour Shalmani, Alale Rezvani Boroujeni, Jiann Shiun YuanAI Agent ReliabilityLLM Hallucination Mitigation

    College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida · Department of Marketing, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

  19. AI Healthcare Chatbots as Information Infrastructure: A Large-Scale Study of User-Reported Breakdowns

    Jun 25, 2026Muhammad Hassan, Ramazan Yener, Ece Gumusel +1Human-AI InteractionTrust in AI

    University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA · Rutgers University, USA

  20. Auditing Framing-Sensitive Behavioral Instability in Large Language Models for Mental Health Interactions

    Jun 25, 2026Abla Bedoui, Ashley L. Greene, Mohammed CherkaouiPrompt SensitivityLLM Auditing

    School of computer science, digital engineering and AI, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, USA · Department of Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, USA

  21. Dziri Voicebot: An End-to-End Low-Resource Speech-to-Speech Conversational System for Algerian Dialect

    Jun 24, 2026Dihia Lanasri, Rebeh Imane Ammar Aouchiche, Abdelkarim Remmide +2TTS SynthesisSpoken Dialogue Systems

    ATM Mobilis · Saad Dahlab Blida 1 University

  22. Staying In Character: Perspective-Bounded Memory For Book-Based Role-Playing Agents

    Jun 24, 2026Xushuo Tang, Junhe Zhang, Zihan Yang +4Conversational AgentsText Generation

    UNSW Sydney · Chang’an University · RAIDS Lab +2

  23. Memory Makes the Difference: Evaluating How Different Memory Roles Shape Conversational Agents

    Jun 24, 2026Yuxin Wang, Paul Thomas, Zhiwei Yu +5Conversational MemoryLLM Agent Evaluation

    1Dartmouth College · 2Microsoft · †Independent researcher.

  24. From Task-Guided Conversational Graphs to Goal-Oriented Dialogue Runtimes

    Jun 22, 2026Mariano Garralda-BarrioLLM Agent OrchestrationConversational Agents

    Independent Researcher · Lleida, Spain

  25. AI-Mediated Negotiation: Design Reflections and Lessons

    Jun 20, 2026Veda Duddu, Jash Rajesh Parekh, Andy Mao +4Human-AI InteractionHuman-Centered AI

    University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA · Johns Hopkins University, USA +1

  26. PulseCX: Breaking the Closed-World Assumption in Real-Time CX

    Jun 19, 2026Rajat Agarwal, Suvidha Tripathi, Shubham SharmaCustomer Support AutomationConversational Agents

    Sprinklr AI, Gurugram, India

  27. GRAG: Generic Response-Augmented Generation Framework for Personalized Conversational Systems

    Jun 19, 2026Junfeng Liu, Christopher T. Symons, Ranga Raju VatsavaiLLM GroundingLLM Personalization

    North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC, USA · Lirio, Inc. +1

  28. Better Adherence, Richer Context: A Field Evaluation of LLM-Powered Conversational Voice Diaries for Sleep

    Jun 17, 2026Amama Mahmood, Bokyung Kim, Honghao Zhao +4HealthcareSpoken Dialogue Systems

    The Johns Hopkins University, USA · Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

  29. Improving Survey Participation in Low-Literacy Populations Through Value-Sensitive Conversational AI

    Jun 16, 2026Raj Gaurav MauryaComputational Social ScienceHuman-Centered AI

    Technical University of Munich

  30. Talking to Your Data: Exploring Embodied Conversation as an Interface for Personal Health Reflection

    Jun 16, 2026Nikola Kovacevic, Bastien Husler, Di Zhuang +2Human-AI InteractionConversational Agents

    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland