Author: Katie Curran

Katherine Curran has just finished her master in Museums and Digital Culture at Pratt. Throughout her studies she focused on helpful applications of digitizations, honed her coding skills and found her passion for website usability.

“Alexa, Tell Me a Joke”: An Analysis of Humor-Based User Interactions with Intelligent Personal Assistants

This study examines humorous interactions with intelligent personal assistants (IPA/IPAs). The respective IPAs include Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, and Apple Siri. Many discussions of a wide-ranging review helped to define the goal to classify user utterances, IPA responses, and user ratings of IPA responses.