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Exploring Smart Agents for the Interaction with Multimodal Mediated Environments

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2020
After conversational agents have been made available to the broader public, we speculate that applying them as a mediator for adaptive environments reduces control complexity and increases user experience by providing a more natural interaction.
Robert Richer, Nan Zhao, Bjoern M. Eskofier, Joseph A. Paradiso   +3 more
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Strength Is in Numbers: Can Concordant Artificial Listeners Improve Prediction of Emotion from Speech? [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Humans can communicate their emotions by modulating facial expressions or the tone of their voice. Albeit numerous applications exist that enable machines to read facial emotions and recognize the content of verbal messages, methods for speech emotion ...
Eugenio Martinelli, Arianna Mencattini, Elena Daprati, Corrado Di Natale   +3 more
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Alexa – Teach me Spanish: A Study of Autonomous Use of Voice-activated Personal Assistants for Language Learning

The EUROCALL Review
Voice-activated Personal Assistants (VAPAs), such as Alexa or Siri, can be utilised for autonomous language learning purposes ranging from asking simple questions about the culture of the target language to interaction in the target language with the ...
Fernando Rosell-Aguilar
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Overview of Intelligent Personal Assistants

Acta Infologica, 2019
With the latest technological advances, intelligent personal assistants are becoming part of our daily lives. Inthe future, with improvements in artificial intelligence techniques, it is foreseen that individuals’ lifemanagement will be greatly assisted by intelligent personal assistants. Today, it seems that intelligentpersonal assistants have not yet
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Commentary on: Simon, B., Dolog., P., Miklós, Z., Olmedilla, D. and Sintek, M. (2004). Conceptualising Smart Spaces for Learning

Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2004
: A Smart Space for Learning (SSL) is a proposed software application system supporting access to individualized learning materials and experiences using Personal Learning Assistants (PLAs).
Rory McGreal
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Privacy‐preserving speaker verification system based on binary I‐vectors

IET Biometrics, 2021
Speaker verification is a key technology in many services and applications like smartphones and intelligent digital assistants. These applications usually require users to transmit their recordings, features, or models from their voices over untrusted ...
Aymen Mtibaa, Dijana Petrovska‐Delacrétaz, Jérôme Boudy, Ahmed Ben Hamida   +3 more
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Future of knowledge management in investment banking: Role of personal intelligent assistants

Methodological Innovations
Purpose: The study’s objective focuses on investigating the involvement of Personal Intelligent Assistants (PIAs) in the Knowledge Management Process (KMP) in Investment Banking Companies leading to Industrial Revolution 5.0 leading to effective ...
Vedapradha Radhakrishna, Hariharan Ravi, Sudha Elango, Venkoba Divyashree, Ashok Jaganathan, Muralidharan Ponnusamy   +5 more
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Beyond usability: innovation in the digital age as an antidote to social isolation

International Journal of Innovation
The study's objective: The article aims to evaluate the impact of life satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, considering the perception of usability of intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) and investigating possible moderations of ...
Márcio de la Cruz Lui, Roberto Carlos Bernardes, Mauro José de Oliveira, Cameron Sumlin   +3 more
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Customization, loneliness, and optimism: drivers of intelligent personal assistant continuance intention during COVID-19

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
With the growing prominence of artificial intelligence, intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) have become integral to various industries and individuals’ lives. This study investigates the factors influencing the continuance intention of IPA users.
Hyeon Jo, Eun-Mi Baek
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Textile UWB Antenna Bending and Wet Performances

International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2012
The vision and ideas of wearable computing systems describe future electronic systems as an integral part of our everyday clothing that provides the wearer with such intelligent personal assistants.
Mai A. R. Osman, M. K. A. Rahim, N. A. Samsuri, M. K. Elbasheer, M. E. Ali   +4 more
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