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User recommendations for intelligent personal assistants

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2019
Adoption of intelligent personal assistants (IPA) is on the rise. Published studies on IPAs often focus on the analysis and critique of existing IPA features without understanding specific user needs that the technology aims to address. We present an exploratory study that gathered user recommendations for the design of their ideal IPA.
Irene Lopatovska, Alice London Griffin, Kelsey Gallagher, Caitlin Ballingall, Clair Rock, Mildred Velazquez   +5 more
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iAPERAS — Intelligent Athlete’s Personal Assistant

18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'05), 2005
Non-professional athletes usually rely on the information about training methods and nutrition recommendations provided online. However, the quality of online information sources is extremely variable. iAPERAS is an expert system using Bayes networks and designed for athletes.
Mateja Verlic, Milan Zorman, Matej Mertik   +2 more
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Intelligent personal assistants: A systematic literature review

Expert Systems with Applications, 2020
Abstract Natural Language Interfaces allow human-computer interaction through the translation of human intention into devices’ control commands, analyzing the user’s speech or gestures. This novel interaction mode arises from advancements of artificial intelligence, expert systems, speech recognition, semantic web, dialog systems, and natural ...
Allan de Barcelos Silva, Márcio Miguel Gomes, Cristiano André da Costa, Rodrigo da Rosa Righi, Jorge Luis Victória Barbosa, Gustavo Pessin, Geert De Doncker, Gustavo Federizzi   +7 more
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An intelligent personal assistant robot: BoBi secretary

2017 2nd International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM), 2017
This paper presents an intelligent personal robot named BoBi secretary. When it is closed, BoBi is a rectangular box with a smart phone size. Owner can call to BoBi to open to transform from the box to a movable robot, and then it will perform many functions like humans such as moving, talking, emoting, singing, dancing, conversing with people to make ...
Jiansheng Liu, Bilan Zhu
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Usability of Voice-based Intelligent Personal Assistants

2020 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC), 2020
Recently the emergence of speech-based Intelligent Personal Assistants (sIPA) has opened a new modality of user interaction with machines. However, till date research in human computer interaction (HCI) has largely focused on graphical user interfaces (GUIs), and not fully facilitate the design of the sIPA’s.
Dilawar Shah Zwakman, Debajyoti Pal, Tuul Triyason, Vajirasak Vanijja   +3 more
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Virtual Intelligent Personal Assistant for Bat Researchers

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies, 2018
The paper presents a Virtual Intelligent Personal Assistant (VIPA) designated to facilitate the field work of the bat researchers. It is a mobile software based on BDI Architecture developed using freely available Open Source technologies. Its initial version includes some basic functionalities such as gathering of fully customizable field data ...
Angel Ivanov, Daniela Orozova
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An Operable Email Based Intelligent Personal Assistant

World Wide Web, 2008
The recent phenomena of email-function-overloading and email-centricness in daily life and business have created new problems to users. There is a practical need for developing a software assistant to facilitate the management of personal and organizational emails, and to enable users to complete their email-centric jobs or tasks smoothly.
Wenbin Li 0008, Ning Zhong 0001, Yiyu Yao, Jiming Liu 0001   +3 more
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Comparing Intelligent Personal Assistants on Humor Function

2020
Intelligent personal assistants (IPA) use humor to engage and entertain users as well as mitigate performance limitations. In order to understand the types of users’ humorous interactions with IPA, we developed a classification of humorous utterances that included categories of questions about IPA personality, requests for jokes, rhetorical statement ...
Irene Lopatovska, Pavel Braslavski 0001, Alice London Griffin, Katherine Curran, Armando Garcia, Mary Mann, Alexandra Srp, Sydney Stewart, Alanood Al Thani, Shannon Mish, Wanyi Wang, Monica Grace Maceli   +11 more
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Ontology-Based Intelligent Personal Assistant

2010
The paper presents the system for knowledge acquisition and its management in designing process. The main aim of the system is to aid designing process by means of generative models creation, which constitute a kind of knowledge-based engineering application. The system uses ontology which has been worked out especially for that purpose. The system has
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Understanding adoption of intelligent personal assistants

Industrial Management & Data Systems, 2018
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive research model that can explain customers’ continuance intentions to adopt and use intelligent personal assistants (IPAs). Design/methodology/approach This study proposes and validates a new theoretical model that extends the parasocial relationship (PSR) theory.
Sang-Yeal Han, Heetae Yang
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