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Long-Term Effects of Perceived Friendship with Intelligent Voice Assistants on Usage Behavior, User Experience, and Social Perceptions

Computers, 2023
Social patterns and roles can develop when users talk to intelligent voice assistants (IVAs) daily. The current study investigates whether users assign different roles to devices and how this affects their usage behavior, user experience, and social ...
Carolin Wienrich, Astrid Carolus, André Markus, Yannik Augustin, Jan Pfister, Andreas Hotho   +5 more
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Usability and Engagement Study for a Serious Virtual Reality Game of Lunar Exploration Missions

Informatics, 2019
Virtual reality (VR) technologies have opened new possibilities for creating engaging educational games. This paper presents a serious VR game that immerses players into the activities of lunar exploration missions in a virtual environment.
Lizhou Cao, Chao Peng, Jeffrey T. Hansberger   +2 more
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A Virtual Reality Simulation of Drug Users’ Everyday Life: The Effect of Supported Sensorimotor Contingencies on Empathy

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Perspective taking techniques have been used to transport people into imaginary situations and the lives of others. Virtual Reality provides an immersive way to virtually experience the lives of stigmatized by society members.
Maria Christofi, Maria Christofi, Despina Michael-Grigoriou, Despina Michael-Grigoriou, Christos Kyrlitsias, Christos Kyrlitsias   +5 more
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Fidelity, Virtual Human Assistants, and Engagement in Immersive Virtual Learning Environments: The Role of Temporal Functional Fidelity

Encyclopedia
Advances in consumer virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) have accelerated the use of immersive virtual learning environments (iVLEs) for skills training.
Thomas Gaudi, Bill Kapralos, Alvaro Quevedo   +2 more
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Introduction

Refuge, 2013
The Special Focus section of this issue of Refuge is being edited by an “outsider” to Refugee Studies. By that I mean that my professional life has not focused on investigating refugee issues per se, but instead has been concerned with how technology is ...
Linda Leung
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“Imagine this smart speaker to have a body”: An analysis of the external appearances and the characteristics that people associate with voice assistants

Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022
IntroductionModern digital devices, such as conversational agents, simulate human–human interactions to an increasing extent. However, their outward appearance remains distinctly technological.
Astrid Carolus, Carolin Wienrich
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INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA BASED LEARNING MEDIA FOR JAVANESE LETTERS USING MACROMEDIA FLASH 8 [PDF]

, 2011
Nowadays the progress of computer technology is rapidly increasing, and with these technologies will allow us to obtain information about cultural heritage, one of which is Javanese letters. Many people find it difficult in learning the Javanese letters.
Marfuatun Nafi' , Khusnul Lutfi
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Service Platform for Converged Interactive Broadband Broadcast and Cellular Wireless [PDF]

, 2007
A converged broadcast and telecommunication service platform is presented that is able to create, deliver, and manage interactive, multimedia content and services for consumption on three different terminal types. The motivations of service providers
Allamandri, F, Campion, S, Centonza, A, Chernilov, A, Cosmas, J, Duffy, A, Garrec, D, Guiraudou, M, Kannan, K, Levesque, T, Mazieres, B, Mies, R, Owens, T J, Re, M, Tsekleves, E, Zheng, L   +15 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
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The Acoustic Environment of York Minster’s Chapter House

Acoustics, 2020
York Minster is the largest medieval Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe, renowned for its magnificent architecture and its stained glass windows. Both acoustic measurements and simulation techniques have been used to analyse the acoustic environment of ...
Lidia Álvarez-Morales, Mariana Lopez, Ángel Álvarez-Corbacho   +2 more
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