Abstract Natural Language Interfaces allow human-computer interaction through the
translation of human intention into devices' control commands, analyzing the user's speech …

Digital assistants (eg, Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, Google's Google Assistant) are highly
complex and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) based technologies. Individuals can use …

Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) are widely available on devices such as smartphones.
However, most people do not use them regularly. Previous research has studied the …

Improvements in life expectancy achieved by technological advancements in the recent
decades have increased the proportion of elderly people. Frailty of old age, susceptibility to …

Many consumers now rely on different forms of voice assistants, both stand-alone devices
and those built into smartphones. Currently, these systems react to specific wake-words …

Natural user interfaces are increasingly popular these days. One of the most common of
these user interfaces today are voice-activated interfaces, in particular intelligent voice …

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have left the server room to enter the lives of billions
of consumers. AI enables objects to perform activities that resemble cognitive functions …

The year 2020 has brought life-changing events for many and affected numerous
professional sectors. Education has been one of those fields heavily impacted, and …

In the past few years, voice assistants have become broadly available in different forms of
presentation and devices–not only as a personal assistant within smartphones but as smart …

Research continuously shows that, despite the wide range of skills developed for Intelligent
Personal Assistants (IPAs), users tend to engage with only a small number of them. One …