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Analyzing the determinants to accept a virtual assistant and use cases among cancer patients: a mixed methods study [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Technological progress in artificial intelligence has led to the increasing popularity of virtual assistants, i.e., embodied or disembodied conversational agents that allow chatting with a technical system in a natural language.
Martien J. P. van Bussel, Gaby J. Odekerken–Schröder, Carol Ou, Rachelle R. Swart, Maria J. G. Jacobs   +4 more
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The Value of a Virtual Assistant to Improve Engagement in Computerized Cognitive Training at Home: Exploratory Study [PDF]

JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies
BackgroundImpaired cognitive function is observed in many pathologies, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer disease.
Isabella Zsoldos, Eléonore Trân, Hippolyte Fournier, Franck Tarpin-Bernard, Joan Fruitet, Mélodie Fouillen, Gérard Bailly, Frédéric Elisei, Béatrice Bouchot, Patrick Constant, Fabien Ringeval, Olivier Koenig, Hanna Chainay   +12 more
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On the Security and Privacy Challenges of Virtual Assistants [PDF]

Sensors, 2021
Since the purchase of Siri by Apple, and its release with the iPhone 4S in 2011, virtual assistants (VAs) have grown in number and popularity. The sophisticated natural language processing and speech recognition employed by VAs enables users to interact with them conversationally, almost as they would with another human. To service user voice requests,
Mabrook S Al-Rakhami, Ali Hassan, Tooska Dargahi   +2 more
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The ATLAS Virtual Research Assistant [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal
We present the Virtual Research Assistant (VRA) of the ATLAS sky survey, which performs preliminary eyeballing on our clean transient data stream. The VRA uses histogram-based gradient-boosted decision tree classifiers trained on real data to score ...
H. F. Stevance, K. W. Smith, S. J. Smartt, S. J. Roberts, N. Erasmus, D. R. Young, A. Clocchiatti   +6 more
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Multilingual Virtual Healthcare Assistant

Health Care Science
This study proposes a virtual healthcare assistant framework designed to provide support in multiple languages for efficient and accurate healthcare assistance. The system employs a transformer model to process sophisticated, multilingual user inputs and
Geetika Munjal, Piyush Agarwal, Lakshay Goyal, Nandy Samiran   +3 more
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Design of a Virtual Assistant to Improve Interaction Between the Audience and the Presenter.

International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 2021
This article presents a novel design of a Virtual Assistant as part of a human-machine interaction system to improve communication between the presenter and the audience that can be used in education or general presentations for improving interaction ...
Salvador Cobos Guzman, Silvia Nuere, Laura de Miguel, Caroline König   +3 more
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Pengembangan Chatbot “Ciovita” Virtual Assistant Cioccolato Brownie Semarang Dengan Metode Waterfall

Journal of Applied Computer Science and Technology, 2022
Cioccolato brownie is a business engaged in the food business, namely brownies. In doing business, Cioccolato brownie performs the traditional process of presenting information to consumers to obtain product and development information.
Elita Natalia Sugianto, Jessica Aurelia Sujangga, Novita Delvia, Verdiana Ayustika, Agus Cahyo Nugroho   +4 more
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Navigation assistance in Virtual Worlds [PDF]

InSITE Conference, 2001
In this paper we report about ongoing research on navigation assistance in virtual environments. Our aim is to contribute to the development of forms of navigation assistance that enable non-professional visitors of a virtual environment to find their way without previous training.
Betsy van Dijk, Rieks op den Akker, Anton Nijholt, Job Zwiers   +3 more
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Sales Policies for a Virtual Assistant [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
We study the implications of selling through a voice-based virtual assistant (VA). The seller has a set of products available and the VA decides which product to offer and at what price, seeking to maximize its revenue, consumer- or total-surplus. The consumer is impatient and rational, seeking to maximize her expected utility given the information ...
Wenjia Ba, Haim Mendelson, Mingxi Zhu
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Improving the Reader’s Attention and Focus through an AI-Driven Interactive and User-Aware Virtual Assistant for Handheld Devices

Applied System Innovation, 2022
This paper describes the design and development of an AI-driven, interactive and user-aware virtual assistant aimed at helping users to focus their attention on reading or attending to other long-lasting visual tasks.
Giancarlo Iannizzotto, Andrea Nucita, Lucia Lo Bello   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source