A Wizard of Oz Study Simulating API Usage Dialogues With a Virtual Assistant

Virtual Assistant technology is rapidly proliferating to improve productivity in a variety of tasks. While several virtual assistants for everyday tasks are well-known (e.g., Siri, Cortana, Alexa), specialty such as software engineering rarer. One key reason rare that very few experimental datasets available and suitable training the AI bedrock current assistants. In this paper, we present set Wizard Oz experiments designed build dataset creating assistant. Our target hypothetical assistant helping programmers use APIs. our experiments, recruited 30 professional complete programming using two The interacted with simulated help - were not aware was actually operated by human experts. We then annotated dialogue acts corpus along four dimensions: illocutionary intent, API information type(s), backward-facing function, traceability specific components. observed diverse range interactions will facilitate development strategies usage.