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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Advertising acceptance via smart speakers [PDF]
Spanish Journal of Marketing-ESIC, 2022 Purpose – The influence of technology on marketing communications is rising in both applications and value created. Artificial intelligence (AI) and, as a result, smart speakers are benefiting both brands and customers at many levels.
João Guerreiro +2 more
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Using smart speakers to contactlessly monitor heart rhythms [PDF]
Communications Biology, 2021 Anran Wang et al. present a contact-free method of monitoring individual heart beats by converting smart-speakers into active sonar systems. Their approach is capable of measuring heart rhythms with high accuracy in both healthy participants and ...
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Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Voice-Operated Smart Speakers Among Low-Income Senior Housing Residents: Comparison of Pre- and Post-Installation Surveys [PDF]
Gerontology 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
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The Use of Smart Speakers in Care Home Residents: Implementation Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021 BackgroundThe use of smart speakers to improve well-being had been trialed in social care by others; however, we were not aware of their implementation in most care homes across a region in the Southwest of the United Kingdom. For
Katie J Edwards +10 more
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Investigating the Integration and the Long-Term Use of Smart Speakers in Older Adults’ Daily Practices: Qualitative Study [PDF]
JMIR mHealth and uHealthBackgroundAs smart speakers become more popular, there have been an increasing number of studies on how they may benefit older adults or how older adults perceive them.
Fangyuan Chang, Lin Sheng, Zhenyu Gu
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From Command to Care: A Scoping Review on Utilization of Smart Speakers by Patients and Providers [PDF]
Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital HealthSmart speakers have gained considerable consumer adoption and research interests. Despite their innovative interaction capabilities, a notable void exists in the literature, with no comprehensive scoping review that scrutinizes and consolidates the usage
Rishi Saripalle, PhD +1 more
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Remote Multi-Person Heart Rate Monitoring with Smart Speakers: Overcoming Separation Constraint [PDF]
SensorsHeart rate is a key vital sign that can be used to understand an individual’s health condition. Recently, remote sensing techniques, especially acoustic-based sensing, have received increasing attention for their ability to non-invasively detect heart ...
Thu Tran, Dong Ma, Rajesh Balan
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“Like another human being in the room”: a community case study of smart speakers to reduce loneliness in the oldest-old [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis community case study examined the potential benefits of smart speakers to tackle loneliness in the oldest old adults living in supported accommodation. The program was established as a collaboration between the supported accommodation provider and a
Arlene Astell +5 more
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Audiovisual Tracking of Multiple Speakers in Smart Spaces
Sensors, 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.
Frank Sanabria-Macias +2 more
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