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Virtual Assistants in Tourism [PDF]

Risk in Contemporary Economy, 2019
This paper aims to review recent work in IA research and to identify future research opportunities for consumer / tourism experience. The result of this study has provided potential directions for advancing the theoretical and managerial implications for
Maria Cristina Enache, Constantin Avram, Robert Rusu, Marius Geru   +3 more
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A Virtual Conversational Agent for Teens with Autism: Experimental Results and Design Lessons

, 2020
We present the design of an online social skills development interface for teenagers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The interface is intended to enable private conversation practice anywhere, anytime using a web-browser.
Ali M. R., Baio J., Bernardini S., Chung P., DeVault D., Foster M., Heimberg R. G., Mintz J., Ozonoff S., Razavi S., Tartaro A., Zeeland A.   +11 more
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Readiness for voice assistants to support healthcare delivery during a health crisis and pandemic

npj Digital Medicine, 2020
To prevent the spread of COVID-19 and to continue responding to healthcare needs, hospitals are rapidly adopting telehealth and other digital health tools to deliver care remotely.
Emre Sezgin, Yungui Huang, Ujjwal Ramtekkar, Simon Lin   +3 more
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Evaluation of Replies to Voice Queries in Gynecologic Oncology by Virtual Assistants Siri, Alexa, Google, and Cortana

BioMedInformatics, 2023
Women that receive news that they have a malignancy of gynecologic origin can have questions about their diagnosis. These questions might be posed as voice queries to the virtual assistants Siri, Alexa, Google, and Cortana.
Jamie M. Land, Edward J. Pavlik, Elizabeth Ueland, Sara Ueland, Nicholas Per, Kristen Quick, Justin W. Gorski, McKayla J. Riggs, Megan L. Hutchcraft, Josie D. Llanora, Do Hyun Yun   +10 more
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Genie: A Generator of Natural Language Semantic Parsers for Virtual Assistant Commands

, 2019
To understand diverse natural language commands, virtual assistants today are trained with numerous labor-intensive, manually annotated sentences.
Alvarez-Melis David, Banarescu Laura, Chen David L, Chu Shumo, Ganitkevitch Juri, Kate Rohit J, Kingma Diederik P, Pasupat Panupong, Quirk Chris, Shetty Jitesh, Steedman Mark, Trakhtenbrot Boris A., Wang Yushi, Wong Yuk Wah, Xu Xiaojun, Zelle John M, Zettlemoyer Luke S   +16 more
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Pervasive and standalone computing: The perceptual effects of variable multimedia quality. [PDF]

, 2004
The introduction of multimedia on pervasive and mobile communication devices raises a number of perceptual quality issues, however, limited work has been done examining the 3-way interaction between use of equipment, quality of perception and quality of ...
Apteker, Bhagwat, Birrell, De groot, Ebina, G Ghinea, Gips, Gips, Gray, Hutchinson, Just, Kaufman, Kazasis, Kennedy, Kistler, Kowler, Lantz, Mackworth, Mackworth, Regan, Royer, S.R Gulliver, Salapatel, Satyanarayanan, Steinmetz, T Serif, Tresman, Ward, Weiser, Wijesekera, Yarbus, Young   +31 more
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Importance of Rehabilitees’ and Rehabilitation Professionals’ Voices in the Development of AI-Based Virtual Assistants

Reabilitacijos Mokslai: Slauga, Kineziterapija, Ergoterapija
Hybrid rehabilitation combines remote and face-to-face interventions, enabling more flexible and accessible treatment models. Within this context, AI-based virtual assistants (VAs) have the potential to enhance the accessibility, interactivity, and ...
Niina Katajapuu
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Linking Personality and Trust in Intelligent Virtual Assistants

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2023
Throughout the last years, Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs), such as Alexa and Siri, have increasingly gained in popularity. Yet, privacy advocates raise great concerns regarding the amount and type of data these systems collect and consequently ...
Lisa Schadelbauer, Stephan Schlögl, Aleksander Groth   +2 more
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User-centric secured smart virtual assistants framework for disables

Alexandria Engineering Journal
Research on intelligent secured virtual assistant (ISVA) systems for disabled people is essential in order to meet the special requirements and overcome the difficulties they confront.
Fayez Alfayez, Surbhi Bhatia Khan
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Security Vulnerability Assessment of Google Home Connection with an Internet of Things Device

Proceedings, 2021
With virtual assistants, both changes and serious conveniences are provided in human life. For this reason, the use of virtual assistants is increasing.
Hilal Çepik, Ömer Aydın, Gökhan Dalkılıç   +2 more
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