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HEUXIVA: A Set of Heuristics for Evaluating User eXperience with Voice Assistants

Applied Sciences
Voice assistants have become increasingly common in everyday devices such as smartphones and smart speakers. Improving their user experience (UX) is crucial to ensuring usability, acceptance, and long-term effectiveness.
Daniela Quiñones, Luis Felipe Rojas, Camila Serrá, Jessica Ramírez, Viviana Barrientos, Sandra Cano   +5 more
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Soft Ionic and Electronic Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Toward Attachable and Implantable Biomedical Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review provides an overview of triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG)–based biomedical applications by classifying studies into electronic and ionic systems across attachable and implantable platforms. It summarizes key material choices, device structures, and working mechanisms that characterize current TENG‐based research, and outlines six future ...
Kyongtae Choi, Jimin Park, Won Jun Song, Soohwan An, Seonggyu Choe, Byeong‐Rak Keum, Min Young Kim, Dae Hee Hwang, Young‐Geun Park, Sung‐Won Kim, Sangyul Baik, Gwang‐Bum Im, Younghoon Lee   +12 more
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Challenges in Collaborative HRI for Remote Robot Teams [PDF]

, 2019
Collaboration between human supervisors and remote teams of robots is highly challenging, particularly in high-stakes, distant, hazardous locations, such as off-shore energy platforms.
Ahmad, Muneeb, Bras, Pierre Le, Chantler, Mike J., Hastie, Helen, Liu, Xingkun, Lohan, Katrin, Lopes, José, Petrick, Ronald P. A., Robb, David A.   +8 more
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Large‐Area 2D Metasurface‐Based Triboelectric E‐Skin Arrays: Contact & Proximity Tactile Mapping with Broadband Acoustic Readouts

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Metasurface‐engineered NC‐TENG arrays integrate tactile pressure mapping, non‐contact gesture sensing, and acoustic signal readouts in one ultrathin module, and outperforms pristine PDMS in terms of electrical output and real‐time spatial mapping for next‐gen wearables.
Injamamul Arief, Swagato Sarkar, Anik Kumar Ghosh, Osvalds Verners, Kamal Kumar Meena, Su‐Hyeong Lee, Soosang Chae, Tobias A. F. König, Beate Krause, Andreas Fery, Mehmet Sait Özer, Anindya Nag, Amit Das   +12 more
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Speech Rate Adjustments in Conversations With an Amazon Alexa Socialbot

Frontiers in Communication, 2021
This paper investigates users’ speech rate adjustments during conversations with an Amazon Alexa socialbot in response to situational (in-lab vs. at-home) and communicative (ASR comprehension errors) factors.
Michelle Cohn, Michelle Cohn, Kai-Hui Liang, Kai-Hui Liang, Melina Sarian, Georgia Zellou, Zhou Yu, Zhou Yu   +7 more
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Code Drones

, 2016
We propose and explore a new paradigm called Code Drones in which every software artifact such as a class is an intelligent and socially active entity. In this paradigm, humanized artifacts take the lead and choreograph (socially, in collaboration with ...
Acharya, Mithun P., Dagnino, Aldo, Kraft, Nicholas A., Parnin, Chris, Qu, Xiao   +4 more
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Voice‐Controlled Intelligent Personal Assistants to Support Aging in Place [PDF]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2019
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Many older adults wish to age in place, and voice‐controlled intelligent personal assistants (VIPAs; eg, Amazon Echo and Google Home) potentially could support unmet home needs. No prior studies have researched the real‐world use of VIPAs among older adults.
Katherine, O'Brien, Anna, Liggett, Vanessa, Ramirez-Zohfeld, Priya, Sunkara, Lee A, Lindquist   +4 more
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Recent Advances in Electrospun Nanofibers for Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Performance Enhancement Strategies and Emerging Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights recent advances in electrospun nanofiber‐based triboelectric nanogenerators, emphasizing how material design, fiber architecture, and interface engineering collectively enhance output performance and mechanical durability. Key developments in porous, aligned, core‐shell, and hierarchical nanofibers are discussed alongside ...
MD Fajla Rabbi, Jee Hwan Ahn, Duy Linh Vu, Kyoung Kwan Ahn   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smart Closed‐Loop Systems in Personalized Healthcare: Advances and Outlook

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
A smart closed‐loop e‐textile integrates multimodal sensing, onboard processing, wireless communication, and wearable power to enable real‐time physiological/biochemical monitoring and feedback‐controlled therapy. ABSTRACT Smart textiles represent a revolutionary frontier in healthcare, seamlessly blending fabric and advanced technologies to create ...
Safoora Khosravi, Sang Won Lee, Mohammad Abrar Uddin, Sina Hassanpoor, Neha Suvindran, Katherine Le, Harun Arkaz, Harishkumar Narayana, Saeid Soltanian, Danial Khorsandi, Negar Hosseinzadeh Kouchehbaghi, Taeil Kim, Yangzhi Zhu   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dialogue at the Edge of Fatigue: Personalized Voice Assistant Strategies in Intelligent Driving Systems

Applied Sciences
With the rapid development of intelligent transportation systems, voice assistants are increasingly integrated into driving environments, providing an effective means to mitigate the risks of fatigued driving.
Chenyi Zhou, Linwei Wang, Yanqun Yang
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