Older adults' intention to use voice assistants: Usability and emotional needs. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Population aging is a global problem, and improving the well-being of older adults is an urgent issue. Voice assistants (VAs) offer hands-free voice control and friendly human-computer interaction, making them a significant solution to address the aging ...
Liu M, Wang C, Hu J.
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“No, not that voice again!”: Engaging Older Adults in Design of Anthropomorphic Voice Assistants [PDF]
Proc ACM Hum Comput InteractConversational voice assistants are often imbued with personality and human-like characteristics (e.g., gender). While researchers have begun to examine and design for the downstream societal impacts of voice assistants encoding characteristics such as ...
Alisha Pradhan +5 more
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Factors influencing older adults' acceptance of voice assistants. [PDF]
Front PsycholIntroduction Voice assistants (VAs) have the potential to uphold and enhance the quality of life for older adults. However, the extent to which older adults accept and benefit from VAs may be relatively modest.
Cao X +5 more
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Engaging with intelligent voice assistants for wellbeing and brand attachment [PDF]
Journal of Brand Management, 2023 The study draws upon the theories of self-determination and motivation of expectancy to examine how intrinsic motives drive consumers to engage with artificial intelligence (AI) powered intelligent voice assistants (IVAs).
Prentice C, Loureiro S, Guerreiro J.
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Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 2023 Chatbots and voice assistants are digital transformers of the interface between companies and customers. They have become part of the current practice of companies and represent a distinct domain of business research.
Carmen Bălan
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Reducing Loneliness and Improving Social Support among Older Adults through Different Modalities of Personal Voice Assistants. [PDF]
Geriatrics (Basel)This study examines the potential of AI-powered personal voice assistants (PVAs) in reducing loneliness and increasing social support among older adults. With the aging population rapidly expanding, innovative solutions are essential.
Jones VK +7 more
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Screen or No Screen? Lessons Learnt from a Real-World Deployment Study of Using Voice Assistants With and Without Touchscreen for Older Adults. [PDF]
ASSETS, 2023 While voice user interfaces offer increased accessibility due to hands-free and eyes-free interactions, older adults often have challenges such as constructing structured requests and perceiving how such devices operate.
Chen C +7 more
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Factors influencing older adults’ adoption of AI voice assistants: extending the UTAUT model [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionWith the acceleration of global population aging and the digitalization process, the potential application of AI voice assistants among the elderly has become increasingly apparent.
Haoran Li, Xin Wei
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Understanding entangled human-technology-world relations: use of intelligent voice assistants by older adults [PDF]
Information Research: An International Electronic JournalIntroduction. Emerging technologies like intelligent voice assistants or social robots can shape human relations with the world. To illustrate how an emerging technology mediates relations and shapes social practices in the context of aging, we present ...
Alisha Pradhan +4 more
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Voice Assistants for Mental Health Services: Designing Dialogues with Homebound Older Adults. [PDF]
DIS (Des Interact Syst Conf)The number of older adults who are homebound with depressive symptoms is increasing. Due to their homebound status, they have limited access to trained mental healthcare support, which leaves this support often to untrained family caregivers. To increase
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