“Alexa, let me ask you something different” Children's adaptive information search with voice assistants

In this study, we investigated how children interact with voice assistants, particularly focusing on what kinds of questions they ask and react to the responses obtained. We recorded 3- 10-year-old children's (N = 43) spontaneous interactions Amazon Alexa, analyzed asked, as well adjusted their information search based received. Our results confirm previous work in showing that are mostly information-seeking, yet type also depends age familiarity assistants. For example, who younger less familiar assistants more likely about themselves environment (e.g., “What is my sister's name?”). show for first time that, even though all sensitive relevance accuracy assistants' a certain extent, older change topic asked upon receiving irrelevant or uninformative responses. This study shows familiarity, become behavior, informativeness, constraints artificial agents, growing into adaptive sophisticated technology users.