Praneel Bhatia

From Interlocutor to Cognitive Extension: Brain-Computer Interface as a Step Beyond Dialogue in Conversational AI

Much of CUI research still treats the system as an interlocutor: a conversational other that should appear trustworthy, helpful, and socially adept. This paper argues that the dominance of the interlocutor metaphor has become a constraint because it strictly preserves a self-other boundary. Conversational AI is increas...