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Virtual assistants are promoted by the software industry as a radically new species of tools, but a clear definition of their specific way to interact with human users missing. The explicit goal of virtual assistants is to support human users by interacting with them in a fluent way, inspired by natural human communication and collaboration, which are now well understood by human sciences. This paper...