Medication Name Comprehension of Intelligent Virtual Assistants: A Comparison of Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Siri Between 2019 and 2021 [PDF]
Frontiers in Digital Health, 2021 The current study was a replication and comparison of our previous research which examined the comprehension accuracy of popular intelligent virtual assistants, including Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Siri for recognizing the generic and ...
Adam Palanica, Yan Fossat
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A Practical Experience on the Amazon Alexa Integration in Smart Offices [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 Smart offices are dynamically evolving spaces meant to enhance employees’ efficiency, but also to create a healthy and proactive working environment.
Răzvan Bogdan +4 more
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Moodle LMS Integration with Amazon Alexa: A Practical Experience [PDF]
Applied Sciences, 2020 The frequency of interaction between teachers and students through Learning Management Systems (LMSs) is continuously rising. However, recent studies highlight the challenges presented in current LMSs to meet the specific needs of the student, regarding ...
Javier Ochoa-Orihuel +2 more
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Barriers and enablers for older adults participating in a home-based pragmatic exercise program delivered and monitored by Amazon Alexa: a qualitative study [PDF]
BMC Geriatrics, 2022 Background The remote delivery and monitoring of individually-tailored exercise programs using voice-controlled intelligent personal assistants (VIPAs) that support conversation-based interactions may be an acceptable alternative model of digital health ...
Paul Jansons +5 more
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Factors modulating perception and production of speech by AI tools: a test case of Amazon Alexa and Polly [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyTo develop AI tools that can communicate on par with human speakers and listeners, we need a deeper understanding of the factors that affect their perception and production of spoken language.
Jae Yung Song, Charles Rojas, Anne Pycha
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Validation of system usability scale as a usability metric to evaluate voice user interfaces [PDF]
PeerJ Computer ScienceIn recent years, user experience (UX) has gained importance in the field of interactive systems. To ensure its success, interactive systems must be evaluated. As most of the standardized evaluation tools are dedicated to graphical user interfaces (GUIs),
Akshay Madhav Deshmukh, Ricardo Chalmeta
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Children and adults produce distinct technology- and human-directed speech [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThis study compares how English-speaking adults and children from the United States adapt their speech when talking to a real person and a smart speaker (Amazon Alexa) in a psycholinguistic experiment. Overall, participants produced more effortful speech
Michelle Cohn +4 more
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Are you listening? – an observational wake word privacy study [PDF]
Organizational Cybersecurity Journal, 2022 Purpose – Digital voice assistants use wake word engines (WWEs) to monitor surrounding audio for detection of the voice assistant's name. There are two failed conditions for a WWE, false negative and false positive.
Marcia Combs +2 more
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SkillVet: Automated Traceability Analysis of Amazon Alexa Skills [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2023 Third-party software, or skills, are essential components in Smart Personal Assistants (SPA). The number of skills has grown rapidly, dominated by a changing environment that has no clear business model. Skills can access personal information and this may pose a risk to users.
Jide S. Edu +3 more
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A Survey on Amazon Alexa Attack Surfaces [PDF]
2021 IEEE 18th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2021 Since being launched in 2014, Alexa, Amazon's versatile cloud-based voice service, is now active in over 100 million households worldwide. Alexa's user-friendly, personalized vocal experience offers customers a more natural way of interacting with cutting-edge technology by allowing the ability to directly dictate commands to the assistant.
Li, Yanyan, Kim, Sara, Sy, Eric
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