Using Smart Speaker Technology for Health and Well-being in an Older Adult Population: Pre-Post Feasibility Study [PDF]
JMIR Aging, 2022 BackgroundAlthough smart speaker technology is poised to help improve the health and well-being of older adults by offering services such as music, medication reminders, and connection to others, more research is needed to ...
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Fall Recognition Based on an IMU Wearable Device and Fall Verification through a Smart Speaker and the IoT [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 A fall is one of the most devastating events that aging people can experience. Fall-related physical injuries, hospital admission, or even mortality among the elderly are all critical health issues.
Hsin-Chang Lin +4 more
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Smart Speaker Recommendations: Impact of Gender Congruence and Amount of Information on Users' Engagement and Choice [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The relevance of smart speakers is steadily increasing, allowing users perform several daily tasks. From a commercial perspective, smart speakers also provide recommendations of products and services that may influence the consumer decision-making ...
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Efficacy of Smart Speaker–Based Metamemory Training in Older Adults: Case-Control Cohort Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021 BackgroundMetamemory training (MMT) is a useful training strategy for improving cognitive functioning in the older adult population. Despite the advantages, there are limitations imposed by location and time constraints.
Kim, Jeongsim +6 more
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Deep learning-based smart speaker to confirm surgical sites for cataract surgeries: A pilot study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Wrong-site surgeries can occur due to the absence of an appropriate surgical time-out. However, during a time-out, surgical participants are unable to review the patient's charts due to their aseptic hands. To improve the conditions in surgical time-outs,
Tae Keun Yoo +6 more
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Smart Speakers: The Next Frontier in mHealth [PDF]
JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2022 The rapid dissemination and adoption of smart speakers has enabled substantial opportunities to improve human health. Just as the introduction of the mobile phone led to considerable health innovation, smart speaker computing systems carry ...
Jacob Sunshine
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Testing delivery of components of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia to breast cancer survivors by smart speaker: a study protocol [PDF]
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2022 Background Insomnia is common in breast cancer survivors (BCS), affecting an estimated 30–50% of the 3.8 million BCS in the US. Insomnia is associated with health consequences for cardiometabolic and immune systems, neurobehavioral function, depression ...
Claire M. Starling +7 more
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Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Speech Recognition System: A Review [PDF]
Al-Rafidain Journal of Computer Sciences and Mathematics, 2023 Voice is a behavioral biometric that may reveal a person's age, gender, ethnicity, and emotional state. Speaker recognition is the method of identifying individuals through their sounds. Despite the fact that over the last eight decades, academics
Mazin Al-Zakarya, Yusra Al-Irhaim
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Foods, 2023 Utilizing immersive technologies to reintroduce the environmental context (i.e., visual, auditory, and olfactory cues) in sensory testing has been one area of research for improving panelist engagement.
Ashley M. Soldavini +3 more
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Seeing eye to eye: trustworthy embodiment for task-based conversational agents
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023 Smart speakers and conversational agents have been accepted into our homes for a number of tasks such as playing music, interfacing with the internet of things, and more recently, general chit-chat.
David A. Robb +7 more
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