[Commlist] Conference on Voice Assistants in Private Homes

Conference on Voice Assistants in Private Homes, May 8-9, Siegen

Conference on Voice Assistants in Private Homes, May 8 and 9, 2023
Collaborative Research Center Media of Cooperation, University of 
Siegen, Germany

Keynotes by Nils Zurawski (Hamburg) and Simone Natale (Turin)

The two-day conference with presentations from linguistics and media 
sociology will be held in German on May 8 and in English on May 9. 
Attending the conference is free, streaming available upon request. 
Please register via (ipa-studie /at/ uni-siegen.de)

The program with abstracts is available at
https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/events/#tagung-sprachassistenten-im-privathaushalt-medien-und-daten-in-interaktion-und-diskurs

Voice assistants, also known as “intelligent personal assistants” 
(IPAs), have been around for almost a decade. They can be found as smart 
speakers in private households as well as on smartphones and in cars. 
While they are advertised as the newest addition to a 
digitally-connected and thus smart lifestyle, they have come under 
scrutiny because the devices provide manufacturers and platforms with 
voice data of the users. The conference aims to bring together analyses 
of the concrete and linguistic use and adoption of the devices and 
services, the assessments by the users and the discussion about the 
exploitation and utilisation of related data.

What follows is an overview for the English-language day of the conference:

May 9, 2023 (English)

09:30 am: Keynote
Projecting Life onto Machines
Simone Natale (Turin)


11:30 am: Panel III: Intelligent Personal Assistants in Everyday Practice

Stuart Reeves (Nottingham): Conversational AI: Respecifying 
Participation as Regulation

Silke Reineke / Henrike Helmer (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 
Mannheim): Integrating the Use of Voice-Controlled Assistants in 
Multi-Party Everyday Interactions

Stephan Habscheid / Tim Hector (Siegen): Smart Speakers in Private 
Households: Linguistic Practices as a Means of Domesticating 
Voice-controlled Assistance Technologies


2:30 pm: Panel IV: Users’ Perspectives on the Practical Use Value and 
Data/Privacy Risks

Dominik Pins (Fraunhofer FIT, Sankt Augustin): When Alexa Beats Around 
the Bush

Anouk Mols (Rotterdam): Socio-Technical Imagined Affordances and Smart 
Speakers: Privacy Experiences of Users and Non-Users in the Netherlands

David Waldecker (Siegen): Mostly Harmless, or Is It? Corporate Data 
Practices and Everyday Smart-Speaker Use


4:30 pm: Panel V: Theorizing Voice Assistant Use: Autonomy and Cynicism 
in the Platform Economy

Niklas Strüver (Siegen): Infrastructures of Privacy: Enforcing privacy 
technology through user portrayal in Amazon’s Alexa

Christoph Lutz (BI Oslo): Privacy Cynicism and Digital Resignation in 
the Context of Smart Speakers

Caja Thimm (Bonn): Whose Autonomy? The Notion of Autonomy between 
Discursive Overload and Technological Realities

6:15 pm: Concluding remarks and farewell
Stephan Habscheid and Dagmar Hoffmann

6:45 pm: End of program
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