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Evaluating people's perceptions of an agent as a public speaking coach

Paladyn
The use of interactive tools, such as voice assistants and social robots, holds promise as coaching aids during public speaking rehearsals. To create a coach that is both effective and likable, it is important to understand how people perceive these ...
Forghani Delara, Ghafurian Moojan, Rasouli Samira, Nehaniv Chrystopher L., Dautenhahn Kerstin   +4 more
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Effects of Mg on Microstructure and Solidification of a Hypereutectic Zn–8 wt.%Al Alloy

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
An appreciable set of results involving thermal data, microstructure, chemical composition, and microstructural growth laws is reported for ZnAlMg alloys. Such results demonstrate that ZnAlMg alloys have high potential for applications in automotive self‐lubricating components, batteries, and electrical systems.
Raí B. de Sousa, Jeverton L. Paixão, Daylla S. Silva, Bruno S. Sobral, Mucio D. de Medeiros, José E. Spinelli, Bismarck L. Silva   +6 more
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Applying Box-Behnken design to research voice control automatic lighting systems

Informatyka, Automatyka, Pomiary w Gospodarce i Ochronie Środowiska
The paper presents the results of an experimental study of a voice control system for smart home elements, implemented on the basis of the WeMos D1 mini microcontroller module using the Google Assistant voice assistant and a mobile application created ...
Oleksandr Burban, Mykola Polishchuk, Anatolii Tkachuk, Serhii Kostiuchko, Liliia Polishchuk, Valentyna Tkachuk   +5 more
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

OPPORTUNITIES AND ISSUES IN THE ADOPTION OF VOICE ASSISTANTS BY BRAZILIAN SMARTPHONE USERS

Ergodesign & HCI, 2019
It is necessary to understand which are the opportunities and issues in the adoption of voice assistants by smartphone users. In order to achieve this, an online questionnaire with smartphone users and interviews with voice assistants’ users were ...
Isabela Motta, Manuela Quaresma
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Gradient‐Conductivity Architecture Enables Synchronous Enhancement of Sensitivity and Detection Range in Multifunctional All‐Paper Sensors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A gradient‐engineered all‐paper sensor is fabricated by integrating MXene and in situ grown AgNPs within hierarchical cellulose networks. The device breaks the sensitivity–detection range trade‐off through cascaded conductive pathways, enabling ultrahigh pressure sensitivity, humidity–pressure decoupled dual‐mode sensing, and outstanding EMI shielding,
Ao Li, Jun Xu, Dezhong Xu, Zhaohui Zhang, Jiyi Li, Daxian Cao, Kefu Chen, Mizi Fan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Joseph Turow. The voice catchers: How marketers listen in to exploit your feelings, your privacy, and your wallet

Studies in Communication Sciences, 2022
“Voice profiling is a gateway drug to a new era of hyper-personalized targeting,” (p. 227) Joseph Turow concludes in his book The Voice Catchers: How Marketers Listen in to Exploit Your Feelings, Your Privacy, and Your Wallet.
Nils S. Borchers
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Advances in Solution‐Processed Textile Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Ink Formation, Processing Strategies, Applications, and Challenges

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Advanced ink systems for solution‐processed textile triboelectric nanogenerators are systematically summarized, spanning conductive, tribo‐negative, and tribo‐positive layers. By connecting ink chemistry, deposition methods, and device function, the present review reveals the key governing principles of solution development and highlights practical ...
Xinlong Sun, Stephen Beeby
wiley   +1 more source

Designing Vanadium‐Based Oxide Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting: Experimental and Mechanistic Insights with Machine Learning

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review establishes structure‐property‐mechanism relationships across six modification strategies for V‐based oxide water‐splitting electrocatalysts: lattice engineering, heteroatom doping, interface engineering, carbon‐based hybridization, morphology engineering, and surface reconstruction and pre‐catalyst design, where dissolution is reframed as ...
Youness El Issmaeli, Amina Lahrichi, Hoje Chun, Rafael Gómez‐Bombarelli, Bruno G. Pollet   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Gendered Voices of Voice Assistants

Abstract: The advancements in artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and neural networks have created a paradigm shift in the inner consciousness of the humans across the world. The man machine assemblage has obfuscated the boundaries between human and machine.
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