Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES
Volume 151, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2021.102630
Keywords
chatbots; conversational agents; systematic literature review; artificial intelligence; user experience; humanness; human-computer interaction
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Researchers conducted a systematic literature review of 83 papers over the last ten years to examine how users interact with text-based chatbots, focusing on themes such as user experience, acceptance, emotional involvement, downsides, and perceived humanness. The study highlights current research gaps and proposes future research opportunities in this area.
Over the last ten years there has been a growing interest around text-based chatbots, software applications interacting with humans using natural written language. However, despite the enthusiastic market predictions, ?conversing? with this kind of agents seems to raise issues that go beyond their current technological limitations, directly involving the human side of interaction. By adopting a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) lens, in this article we present a systematic literature review of 83 papers that focus on how users interact with text-based chatbots. We map the relevant themes that are recurrent in the last ten years of research, describing how people experience the chatbot in terms of satisfaction, engagement, and trust, whether and why they accept and use this technology, how they are emotionally involved, what kinds of downsides can be observed in human-chatbot conversations, and how the chatbot is perceived in terms of its humanness. On the basis of these findings, we highlight open issues in current research and propose a number of research opportunities that could be tackled in future years.
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