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Learning Smart in Home

open access: yesE-learning and Education, 2020
Developments in the Smart Home sector are increasingly supporting users in their everyday lives and at home. The devices are intelligent, networked and integrated into the environment.
Alexander Kiy, Dustin Wegner
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Colonizing the Home as Data-Source: Investigating the Language of Amazon Skills and Google Actions

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2022
Multiple domains of life and everyday routine interactions have been targeted as key sites for shaping individuals’ behaviors according to companies’ data extractive expectations, in particular the home.
Louise Marie Hurel, Nick Couldry
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Children and adults produce distinct technology- and human-directed speech

open access: yesScientific Reports
This 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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Amazon Alexa: An Overview

open access: yes
Amazon Alexa is one of the most well known electronic gadgets used by people of this generation.  It can perform multiple tasks. Some of them are : voice interaction, playing music, setting reminders and alarms, playing audio books, weather and ...
B, Deepa, N Murty, Sneha
core  

Hey, Alexa, What’s the Weather? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
It took a few years for Alexa to catch on. The jokes were sparse at first, not a whole lot of people knew about the device. The first rib that I remember receiving was from a friend of my brothers, who thought it was funny to ask me “Alexa, what’s the ...
Bills, Alexa
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Evaluierung der Benutzerfreundlichkeit von Amazon Alexa am Beispiel einer Fahrplanauskunft App

open access: yes, 2018
Smart Home Assistenten wie Amazon Alexa gewannen in den letzten Jahren stark an Popularität. Jedoch ist es ein noch nicht sehr erforschtes Gebiet, wie diese Smart Home Assistenten, welche auf einem rein sprachbasierenden User Interface aufbauen ...
Sadler, Markus
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Fearless Friday: Alexa Laboy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this week’s edition of Fearless Friday, SURGE is honoring Alexa Laboy ‘18 for all of her impressive work in our campus ...
Laboy, Alexa J.
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Products as Pals II: Mitigating the Effects of Social Exclusion Through Engagement with Amazon Alexa

open access: yes, 2019
Humanized devices are becoming more common in every aspect of life. The current work examines whether people prefer engaging with a fellow human, an anthropomorphic device (i.e., Amazon\u27s Alexa), or a non-anthropomorphic device (i.e., a computer ...
Muschler, Shelby   +3 more
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