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StockBabble: A Conversational Financial Agent to support Stock Market Investors

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Suraj Sharma,

Joseph Brennan,

Jason NurseAuthors Info & Claims

CUI '21: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

Article No.: 25, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/3469595.3469620

Published: 27 July 2021 Publication History

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We introduce StockBabble, a conversational agent designed to support understanding and engagement with the stock market. StockBabble’s value and novelty is in its ability to empower retail investors – many of which may be new to investing – and supplement their informational needs using a user-friendly agent. Users have the ability to query information on companies to retrieve a general and financial overview of a stock, including accessing the latest news and trading recommendations. They can also request charts which contain live prices and technical investment indicators, and add shares to a personal portfolio to allow performance monitoring over time. To evaluate our agent’s potential, we conducted a user study with 15 participants. In total, 73% (11/15) of respondents said that they felt more confident in investing after using StockBabble, and all 15 would consider recommending it to others. These results are encouraging and suggest a wider appeal for such agents. Moreover, we believe this research can help to inform the design and development of future intelligent, financial personal assistants.

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