Zhong, Shu, Gatti, Elia, Hardwick, James, Ribul, Miriam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0323-9020, Cho, Youngjun and Obrist, Marianna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4009-1627, 2025, Journal Article, LLM-mediated domain-specific voice agents: the case of TextileBot Behaviour & Information Technology, 44 (1). pp. 1-33. ISSN 0144-929X
Abstract or Description: | Developing domain-specific conversational agents (CAs) has been challenged by the need for extensive domain-focused data. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) make them a viable option as a knowledge backbone. LLMs behaviour can be enhanced through prompting, instructing them to perform downstream tasks in a zero-shot fashion (i.e. without training). To this end, we incorporated structural knowledge into prompts and used prompted LLMs to prototyping domain-specific CAs. We demonstrate a case study in a specific domain-textile circularity – TextileBot, we present the design, development, and evaluation of the TextileBot. Specially, we conducted an in-person user study (N = 30) with Free Chat and Information-Gathering tasks with TextileBots to gather insights from the interaction. We analyse the human–agent interactions, combining quantitative and qualitative methods. Our results suggest that participants engaged in multi-turn conversations, and their perceptions of the three variation agents and respective interactions varied demonstrating the effectiveness of our prompt-based LLM approach. We discuss the dynamics of these interactions and their implications for designing future voice-based CAs. |
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Official URL: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01449... |
Subjects: | Other > Engineering > H100 General Engineering > H130 Computer-Aided Engineering > H131 Automated Engineering Design Creative Arts and Design > W200 Design studies > W230 Clothing/Fashion Design > W231 Textile Design Creative Arts and Design > W200 Design studies > W280 Interactive and Electronic Design |
School or Centre: | Research Centres > Materials Science Research Centre |
Funders: | UKRI [EP/V011766/1] |
Identification Number or DOI: | 10.1080/0144929X.2025.2456667 |
Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2025 10:45 |
Last Modified: | 04 Feb 2025 10:45 |
URI: | https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/6331 |
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