Since the introduction of Microsoft's Clippy the popularity of conversational agents has been on the rise. Nowadays you can interact with them in your home, on your phone, and even when interviewing for your next job (Mitt i Stockholm, 2019). The popularity is expected to keep on growing and by the year 2024 the chatbot market is predicted to be valued at 1.3 billion dollars (Bhutani & Wadhwani, 2019). This study set out to understand how conversational agents could be used to improve the smart home experience. This was done using the Design thinking methodology, which in this study consists of five phases named empathise, define, ideate, prototype, and test. These phases all contributed to understanding the users goals, problems, and how it might be solved by the implementation of an artifact. The artifact was also user tested which results in various feedback giving insights into the users perspective on the product. The test were evaluated with the System Usability Scale, which is a metric for usability, ranking the product from 0-100, or F to A+. The prototype received an average score of 90.3, which converts to the A+ grade. Even though the grade can be seen as promising the homogeneous and young group of participants makes the results hard to generalize to a broader population. This is an area of improvement for future studies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-186933 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Berglund, Simon |
| Publisher | Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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