About
Dr Leigh Clark is a Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction in the Department of Computer science, Swansea University.
Dr Leigh Clark
Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction,
Computer Science
Telephone number
+44 (0) 1792 518604
Research Links
Office - 113
First Floor
Computational Foundry
Bay Campus
First Floor
Computational Foundry
Bay Campus
Areas Of Expertise
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Speech interfaces
- Sociolinguistics
Publications
Research Highlights
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Edwards, J., Wintersberger, P., Clark, L., Rough, D., Doyle, P., Banks, V., Wyner, A., Janssen, C., & Cowan, B. (2021). CUI @ Auto-UI: Exploring the Fortunate and Unfortunate Futures of Conversational Automotive User Interfaces. In 13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (pp. 186-189). ACM.
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Baxter, M., Bleakley, A., Edwards, J., Clark, L., Cowan, B., & Williamson, J. (2021). “You, Move There!”: Investigating the Impact of Feedback on Voice Control in Virtual Environments. In CUI 2021 - 3rd Conference on Conversational User InterfacesACM.
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Murad, C., Munteanu, C., Cowan, B., & Clark, L. (2021). Finding a New Voice: Transitioning Designers from GUI to VUI Design. In CUI 2021 - 3rd Conference on Conversational User InterfacesACM.
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Edwards, J., Clark, L., & Perrone, A. (2021). LGBTQ-AI? Exploring Expressions of Gender and Sexual Orientation in Chatbots. In CUI 2021 - 3rd Conference on Conversational User InterfacesACM.
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Spina, D., Trippas, J., Thomas, P., Joho, H., Byström, K., Clark, L., Craswell, N., Czerwinski, M., Elsweiler, D., Frummet, A., Ghosh, S., Kiesel, J., Lopatovska, I., McDuff, D., Meyer, S., Mourad, A., Owoicho, P., Cherumanal, S., Russell, D., & Sitbon, L. (2021). Report on the future conversations workshop at CHIIR 2021. ACM SIGIR Forum, 55(1), 1-22.
All Research
Journal Articles
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Spina, D., Trippas, J., Thomas, P., Joho, H., Byström, K., Clark, L., Craswell, N., Czerwinski, M., Elsweiler, D., Frummet, A., Ghosh, S., Kiesel, J., Lopatovska, I., McDuff, D., Meyer, S., Mourad, A., Owoicho, P., Cherumanal, S., Russell, D., & Sitbon, L. (2021). Report on the future conversations workshop at CHIIR 2021. ACM SIGIR Forum, 55(1), 1-22.
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Garaialde, D., Bowers, C., Pinder, C., Shah, P., Parashar, S., Clark, L., & Cowan, B. (2020). Quantifying the Impact of Making and Breaking Interface Habits. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 102461
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Murad, C., Munteanu, C., Cowan, B., & Clark, L. (2019). Revolution or Evolution? Speech Interaction and HCI Design Guidelines. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 18(2), 33-45.
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Clark, L., Doyle, P., Garaialde, D., Gilmartin, E., Schlögl, S., Edlund, J., Aylett, M., Cabral, J., Munteanu, C., Edwards, J., & Cowan, B. (2019). The State of Speech in HCI: Trends, Themes and Challenges. Interacting with Computers, 31(4), 349-371.
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Adolphs, S., Clark, L., Dörnyei, Z., Glover, T., Henry, A., Muir, C., Sánchez-Lozano, E., & Valstar, M. (2018). Digital innovations in L2 motivation: Harnessing the power of the Ideal L2 Self. System, 78, 173-185.
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Large, D., Clark, L., Quandt, A., Burnett, G., & Skrypchuk, L. (2017). Steering the conversation: A linguistic exploration of natural language interactions with a digital assistant during simulated driving. Applied Ergonomics, 63, 53-61.
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Clark, L., Ofemile, A., Adolphs, S., Rodden, T., & Clark, L. (2016). A Multimodal Approach to Assessing User Experiences with Agent Helpers. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 6(4), 1-31.
Book Chapters
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Aylett, M., Clark, L., Cowan, B., & Torre, I. (2021). Building and Designing Expressive Speech Synthesis. In Birgit Lugrin, Catherine Pelachaud, David Traum (Ed.), The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents (pp. 173-212). ACM
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Clark, L., Ofemile, A., & Cowan, B. (2020). Exploring Verbal Uncanny Valley Effects with Vague Language in Computer Speech. In Benjamin Weiss, Jürgen Trouvain, Melissa Barkat-Defradas & John J. Ohala (Ed.), Voice Attractiveness (pp. 317-330). Springer Singapore
Conference Contributions
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Wu, Y., Porcheron, M., Doyle, P., Edwards, J., Rough, D., Cooney, O., Bleakley, A., Clark, L., & Cowan, B. (2022). Comparing Command Construction in Native and Non-Native Speaker IPA Interaction through Conversation Analysis. In CUI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CUI Conference on Conversational User InterfacesAssociation for Computing Machinery.
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Lee, M., Sin, J., Laban, G., Kraus, M., Clark, L., Porcheron, M., Cowan, B., Følstad, A., Munteanu, C., & Candello, H. (2022). Ethics of Conversational User Interfaces. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended AbstractsACM.
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Garg, R., Cui, H., Seligson, S., Zhang, B., Porcheron, M., Clark, L., Cowan, B., & Beneteau, E. (2022). The Last Decade of HCI Research on Children and Voice-based Conversational Agents. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New Orleans LA USA. 29 April 2022- 5 May 2022. (pp. 1-19). ACM.
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Garg, R., Porcheron, M., Clark, L., Cowan, B., Følstad, A., Zhang, B., Paay, J., & Luger, E. (2021). CUI@CSCW: Inclusive and Collaborative Child-facing Voice Technologies. In Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 327-330). Association for Computing Machinery.
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Edwards, J., Wintersberger, P., Clark, L., Rough, D., Doyle, P., Banks, V., Wyner, A., Janssen, C., & Cowan, B. (2021). CUI @ Auto-UI: Exploring the Fortunate and Unfortunate Futures of Conversational Automotive User Interfaces. In 13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (pp. 186-189). ACM.
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Murad, C., Munteanu, C., Cowan, B., & Clark, L. (2021). Finding a New Voice: Transitioning Designers from GUI to VUI Design. In CUI 2021 - 3rd Conference on Conversational User InterfacesACM.
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Edwards, J., Clark, L., & Perrone, A. (2021). LGBTQ-AI? Exploring Expressions of Gender and Sexual Orientation in Chatbots. In CUI 2021 - 3rd Conference on Conversational User InterfacesACM.
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Baxter, M., Bleakley, A., Edwards, J., Clark, L., Cowan, B., & Williamson, J. (2021). “You, Move There!”: Investigating the Impact of Feedback on Voice Control in Virtual Environments. In CUI 2021 - 3rd Conference on Conversational User InterfacesACM.
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Murad, C., Munteanu, C., Cowan, B., Clark, L., Porcheron, M., Candello, H., Schlögl, S., Aylett, M., Sin, J., Moore, R., Hughes, G., & Ku, A. (2021). Let’s Talk About CUIs: Putting Conversational User Interface Design Into Practice. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-6). ACM.
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Doyle, P., Clark, L., & Cowan, B. (2021). What Do We See in Them? Identifying Dimensions of Partner Models for Speech Interfaces Using a Psycholexical Approach. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-14). ACM.
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Doyle, P., Rough, D., Edwards, J., Cowan, B., Clark, L., Porcheron, M., Schlögl, S., Torres, M., Munteanu, C., Murad, C., Sin, J., Lee, M., Aylett, M., & Candello, H. (2021). CUI@IUI: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Intelligent Conversational User Interface Interactions. In 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 12-14). ACM.
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Porcheron, M., Clark, L., Jones, M., Candello, H., Cowan, B., Murad, C., Sin, J., Aylett, M., Lee, M., Munteanu, C., Fischer, J., Doyle, P., & Kaye, J. (2020). CUI@CSCW: Collaborating through Conversational User Interfaces. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2020 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 483-492). ACM.
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Wu, Y., Rough, D., Bleakley, A., Edwards, J., Cooney, O., Doyle, P., Clark, L., & Cowan, B. (2020). See What I’m Saying? Comparing Intelligent Personal Assistant Use for Native and Non-Native Language Speakers. In 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (pp. 1-9). ACM.
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Clark, L., Cowan, B., Roper, A., Lindsay, S., & Sheers, O. (2020). Speech diversity and speech interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (pp. 1-3). ACM.
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Wu, Y., Edwards, J., Cooney, O., Bleakley, A., Doyle, P., Clark, L., Rough, D., & Cowan, B. (2020). Mental Workload and Language Production in Non-Native Speaker IPA Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (pp. 1-8). ACM.
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Candello, H., Munteanu, C., Clark, L., Sin, J., Torres, M., Porcheron, M., Myers, C., Cowan, B., Fischer, J., Schlögl, S., Murad, C., & Reeves, S. (2020). CUI@CHI: Mapping Grand Challenges for the Conversational User Interface Community. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsACM.
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Kocaballi, A., Quiroz, J., Laranjo, L., Rezazadegan, D., Kocielnik, R., Clark, L., Liao, Q., Park, S., Moore, R., & Miner, A. (2020). Conversational Agents for Health and Wellbeing. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsACM.
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Doyle, P., Edwards, J., Clark, L., Dumbleton, O., & Cowan, B. (2019). Mapping Perceptions of Humanness in Intelligent Personal Assistant Interaction. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (pp. 1-12). ACM.
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Clark, L., Cowan, B., Edwards, J., Munteanu, C., Murad, C., Aylett, M., Moore, R., Edlund, J., Szekely, E., Healey, P., Harte, N., Torre, I., & Doyle, P. (2019). Mapping Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives for Understanding Speech Interface Interactions. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsACM.
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Clark, L., Munteanu, C., Wade, V., Cowan, B., Pantidi, N., Cooney, O., Doyle, P., Garaialde, D., Edwards, J., Spillane, B., Gilmartin, E., & Murad, C. (2019). What Makes a Good Conversation? Challenges in Designing Truly Conversational Agents. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '19 (pp. 1-12). ACM Press.
Other Research Outputs
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Wu, Y., Lindsay, S., Evans, L., Porcheron, M., Clark, L., & Jones, R. (2021). Enabling Digital First: A Case Study of Sight-Impaired Users in WalesSU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58304
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Hauff, C., Azzopardi, L., Clark, L., Capra, R., & Arguello, J. (n.d.) Evaluating Conversational Search SystemsSU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54806
Supervision
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Recommender algorithms and user preferences on social media platforms«br /» (Examining algorithms and filter bubbles in relation to user preferences on social media platforms, in enhancing user wellbeing)«br /» (current)
PhDOther supervisor: Dr Matt Roach -
Distracting Transformers - Improving Model Interpretability through user-controlled Attention Adjustment (current)
MScOther supervisor: Dr Jingjing DengOther supervisor: Dr Matt Roach
Taught Modules
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CS-130 Professional Issues 1: Computers and Society
Students will be introduced to the main professional issues associated with software engineering and computer science research. Students will also examine the main impacts of computing on society and social issues on the practice of computing, including legal and ethical concerns such as copyright and the data protection act. Issues of network security will be discussed. The course also includes communication skills, including the writing of a technical report and giving a formal presentation.
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CSCM41J Introduction to Programming in Java
This intensive course provides a solid introduction to the Java programming language and development process.
Key Grants and Projects
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Creating a trustworthy model for always-listening voice interfaces 2019
Funding provided by Mozilla Research
Career History
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University College Dublin
June 2017 - September 2019
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Researcher, Nottingham University
May 2016 - July 2017
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PhD, Nottingham University
October 2012 - May 2016
Affiliated Positions
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Guest Lecturer, University College Dublin
2019 - 2021
Public Engagements
Humans are starting to respect machines at work (2020). Tonya Hall & ZDNet.
Why do we gender AI? Voice tech firms move to be more inclusive (2020). The Guardian.
Smart speakers: Are you being fooled as technology advances? (2019). BBC Wales News.
Sounding too human (2019). Rhifyn 23 Inch Magazine.
Voice assistant technology is in danger of trying to be too human (2019). The Conversation.
Speech Technology and Synthesis with Leigh Clark & Benjamin R. Cowan (2019). Irish Tech News.
Invited Presentations, Lectures and Conferences
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Mind the Gap: Discussing the Role of Humanness in Speech Technology Design.
December 2019
Google, Kings Cross, London
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Menace of mimicry: how humanlike should our speech technology be?
December 2019
Swansea University
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Conversational User Interfaces.
November 2019
Dagstuhl seminar series on Conversational Search
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The State of Speech in HCI: Trends, Themes & Challenges.
February 2019
University of London
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Mapping speech research in HCI: Trends, Themes & Challenges.
January 2019
UCLIC, University College London
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The State of Speech in HCI: Trends, Themes & Challenges.
November 2018
Birmingham University
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Do we know how computers should talk to us? Exploring the concept of appropriate machinelike communication.
March 2018
University College Dublin
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“But it’s just a machine” – exploring language use and voice variation in computer speech.
October 2016
York St John University