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An Acoustic-Based Smart Home System for People Suffering from Dementia

open access: yesTechnologies, 2019
Aging-in-place can reduce the progress of dementia syndrome and improve the quality of life of the sufferers and their families. Taking into consideration the fact that numerous neurological research results suggest the use of sound as a stimulus for ...
Eleni Boumpa   +5 more
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Voice Assistants and Smart Speakers in Everyday Life and in Education

open access: yesInformatics in Education, 2020
In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shown significant progress and its potential is growing. An application area of AI is Natural Language Processing (NLP).
George TERZOPOULOS, Maya SATRATZEMI
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Training-Free Acoustic-Based Hand Gesture Tracking on Smart Speakers

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2023
Hand gesture recognition is an essential Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) mechanism for users to control smart devices. While traditional device-based methods support acceptable recognition performance, the recent advance in wireless sensing could enable
Xiao Xu   +6 more
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Seeing eye to eye: trustworthy embodiment for task-based conversational agents

open access: yesFrontiers 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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THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART CITY APPLICATIONS: PREFACE [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2021
This Conference Proceedings volume contains the written versions of the contributions presented during the 6th International Conference on Smart City Applications.The event had been planned to organized in Safranbolu Campus of Karabuk University, Turkey.
I. R. Karas   +3 more
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Between a rock and a hard place: owners of smart speakers and joint control

open access: yesSCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society, 2020
The paper analyses to what extent the owners of smart speakers, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, can be considered joint controllers, and what are the implications of the household exemption under the GDPR, with regard to the personal data of guests ...
Silvia De Conca
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What Influences the Perceived Trust of a Voice-Enabled Smart Home System: An Empirical Study

open access: yesSensors, 2021
Contemporarily, almost all the global IT giants have aimed at the smart home industry and made an active strategic business layout. As the early-stage and entry-level product of the voice-enabled smart home industry, the smart speakers have been going ...
Yuqi Liu, Yan Gan, Yao Song, Jing Liu
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Investigating the Determinants of IoT Device Continuance Intentions: An Empirical Study of Smart Speakers Through the Lens of Expectation-Confirmation Theory

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2023
IoT device market has grown rapidly in recent years, with many researches have been done to investigate the IoT devices’ adoption factors. However, it is crucial to understand how to maintain the users’ continuance intention.
Ming Xing Wang   +2 more
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BigEAR: Inferring the Ambient and Emotional Correlates from Smartphone-based Acoustic Big Data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper presents a novel BigEAR big data framework that employs psychological audio processing chain (PAPC) to process smartphone-based acoustic big data collected when the user performs social conversations in naturalistic scenarios.
Dubey, Harishchandra   +2 more
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When Speakers Are All Ears: Characterizing Misactivations of IoT Smart Speakers [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2020
Abstract Internet-connected voice-controlled speakers, also known as smart speakers, are increasingly popular due to their convenience for everyday tasks such as asking about the weather forecast or playing music. However, such convenience comes with privacy risks: smart speakers need to constantly listen in order to activate when the ...
Daniel J. Dubois   +5 more
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