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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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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Moodle LMS Integration with Amazon Alexa: A Practical Experience
Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 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 ...
María Consuelo Sáiz-Manzanares +2 more
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Cognitive Reablement Using Digital Voice Assistants for People Living With Dementia or Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Co-Design Study. [PDF]
Health ExpectABSTRACT Background Digital health technology has the potential to increase access to home‐based reablement programmes for people living with dementia (PLwD) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to support everyday living. Digital Voice Assistants (DVAs) offer a possible solution to overcome usability issues with traditional technologies due to ...
Yiannis T +7 more
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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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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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Revisiting the Boundary between ASR and NLU in the Age of Conversational Dialog Systems
Computational Linguistics, 2022 As more users across the world are interacting with dialog agents in their daily life, there is a need for better speech understanding that calls for renewed attention to the dynamics between research in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural ...
Manaal Faruqui, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
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scikit-mobility: A Python Library for the Analysis, Generation, and Risk Assessment of Mobility Data
Journal of Statistical Software, 2022 The last decade has witnessed the emergence of massive mobility datasets, such as tracks generated by GPS devices, call detail records, and geo-tagged posts from social media platforms. These datasets have fostered a vast scientific production on various
Luca Pappalardo +3 more
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