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

open access: yesComputers, 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   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges and Opportunities for the Design of Smart Speakers

open access: yesCoRR, 2023
15 pages, 7 ...
Tao Long 0003, Lydia B. Chilton
openaire   +3 more sources

Smart Speaker Design and Implementation with Biometric Authentication and Advanced Voice Interaction Capability [PDF]

open access: yesIrish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, 2022
Advancements in semiconductor technology have reduced dimensions and cost while improving the performance and capacity of chipsets. In addition, advancement in the AI frameworks and libraries brings possibilities to accommodate more AI at the resource ...
B. Sudharsan, P. Corcoran, M. Ali
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Voice-Operated Smart Speakers Among Low-Income Senior Housing Residents: Comparison of Pre- and Post-Installation Surveys

open access: yesGerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2021
Smart speakers have the potential to support independent living and wellness among low-income senior housing (LISH) residents. The aim of this study was to examine and compare LISH residents’ attitudes and perceptions toward smart speakers at two time ...
Jane Chung PhD, RN   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human and Non-Human Agency as Practical Accomplishment

open access: yesSocial Interaction, 2023
The article takes its starting point with heuristics, according to which agency is not to be seen as something that certain ontological entities stably do or do not possess. Rather, it is assumed that agency, especially in voice-based exchange with smart
Stephan Habscheid   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Alexa, I feel for you!’ Observers’ Empathetic Reactions towards a Conversational Agent

open access: yesFrontiers in Computer Science, 2021
Conversational agents and smart speakers have grown in popularity offering a variety of options for use, which are available through intuitive speech operation.
Astrid Carolus   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘There are some things that I would never ask Alexa’ – privacy work, contextual integrity, and smart speaker assistants

open access: yesInformation, Communication & Society, 2023
When new technologies like smart speaker assistants (SSAs) enter private spaces, new threats to privacy emerge. Drawing on the concepts of privacy work [Nippert-Eng, C. E. (2010). Islands of privacy. University of Chicago Press.] and contextual integrity
S. R. Brause, Grant Blank
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘Alexa, Adv(ert)ise us!’

open access: yesMedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, 2021
Digital assistants increasingly infiltrate the world of children. The way they function reminds us somewhat of playmates, nannies and tutors. So far, educators have only marginally dealt with this new media phenomenon, yet the use of smart speakers by ...
Michael Haas, Anna Keller
doaj   +1 more source

Audiovisual Tracking of Multiple Speakers in Smart Spaces

open access: yesSensors, 2023
This paper presents GAVT, a highly accurate audiovisual 3D tracking system based on particle filters and a probabilistic framework, employing a single camera and a microphone array. Our first contribution is a complex visual appearance model that accurately locates the speaker’s mouth.
Frank Sanabria-Macias   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Better Data from AI Users: A Field Experiment on the Impacts of Robot Self-Disclosure on the Utterance of Child Users in Home Environment

open access: yesSensors, 2023
Data are one of the important factors in artificial intelligence (AI). Moreover, in order for AI to understand the user and go beyond the role of a simple machine, the data contained in the user’s self-disclosure is required.
Byounggwan Lee   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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