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Showing 1 to 20 of 149 for “"Alexa"”.
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Could Alexa Increase Your Social Worth?
<p>People have historically used personal introductions to build social capital, which is the foundation of career networking and is perhaps the most effective way to advance a career (Lin, 2001). With societal changes, such as the pandemic (Venkatesh & Edirappuli, 2020), and the increasing …
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"Alexa? What Keeps Consumers From Engaging With You?"
<p>As the digital era continues to have a strong influence on how consumers effectively leverage technology, the prospect of introducing artificial intelligence, including smart speakers, into our homes and routines has become largely unavoidable (Bressgott, 2019; Davenport et al., 2020). Consumer …
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Exploring Accessibility and Companionship in Boardgames via Alexa
… these findings, we developed a CA using Amazon Alexa and 9 players who are BLV evaluated our CA in study 2. Our findings generated five design principles for CAs to support boardgame rule learning: conciseness, ease of navigation, customization, supplementary features, and social …
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Voice Control of Fetch Robot Using Amazon Alexa
… assistants, such as Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google Assistant, do not currently have any physical functions. As an important part of the internet of things (IoT), the field of robotics has become a new trend in the usage of VA. In this project, a mobile robot, Fetch, is connected …
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Integrated Marketing Communications Plan For Singer-Songwriter Alexa James
… communications plan for singer-songwriter Alexa James are to refine and promote the brand of Alexa James, enhance marketing techniques and increase Alexa James' online fan base. Despite a limited budget there is a great opportunity to increase awareness of Alexa James and help show the …
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Measuring the Functionality of Amazon Alexa and Google Home Applications
Voice Personal Assistant (VPA) is a software agent, which can interpret the user's voice commands and respond with appropriate information or action. The users can operate the VPA by voice to complete multiple tasks, such as read the message, order coffee, send an email, check the news, and so on. …
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Alexa, dóna'm les notícies! Disseny d'un model pilot de servei informatiu públic per l'assistent de veu d'Amazon
… de veu - en particular, a l'assistent Alexa, d'Amazon. El treball utilitza la metodologia del disseny basat en usuari per identificar usuaris model i contextos d'ús, i apartir d'aquí estableix quins continguts s'han de servir, defineix la veu de la marca, desenvolupa un arbre de …
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Alexa as a shopping assistant : the effects of message interactivity and the mediating role of social presence
… who had more back-and-forth conversations with Alexa reported higher perceptions of message interactivity and greater feelings of social presence. Feelings of social presence mediated the effect of message interactivity on attitude to use and it also mediates intention to use. The current study …
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Beyond the Echo: Exploring Usage, Anthropomorphism and User-Smart Object Relationships in the Age of Amazon Alexa
Characterised by their unique capabilities and autonomous nature, Voice-Controlled Smart Assistants (VCSAs) have rapidly gained popularity as one of the most prominent AI-based consumer technologies of this decade. However, while poised to revolutionise the customer journey, insight into the …
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Venus Imaginaria: Reflections on Alexa Wilding, Her Life, and Her Role as Muse in the Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
… the potential importance of his connection to Alexa Wilding. This thesis shall serve as a rudimentary biography for her through analysis of public records and private letters, and it will examine overlooked evidence in the search for the real woman behind Rossetti's most versatile face, and the …
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Tools to create and democratize conversational artificial intelligence
… with voice-first technology, such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home devices. As this technology becomes more complex, the skill set needed to develop conversational AI applications increases as well. This work bridges the gap, democratizes AI technology, and empowers technology consumers to …
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The ATP synthase from spinach chloroplasts (Spinacea oleracea) : improved isolation and purification of the enzyme and conformational changes observed with fluorescent labels
… confirm this effect. The fluorophores LY and Alexa 546 exhibited biphasic decays when bound to CF1 and free in solution. In the case of Alexa 546, the decay time of the faster component was 900 ps and was not changed upon binding to CF1. With LY the the decay time of the faster component was …
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GROWING UP IN THE DIGITAL AGE: INVESTIGATING CHILDREN’S USE, JUDGMENT, AND ENGAGEMENT WITH INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES.
… facet of their lives: at home asking the Amazon Alexa questions, in their play caring for a robot-dog, at school learning from an online avatar. This dissertation utilizes parental reports, child interviews, and experimental methods to examine how children use, judge, and engage with interactive …
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Frequency domain fluorescent molecular tomography and molecular probes for small animal imaging
… we have developed and evaluated fluorescent Alexa Fluor 680 and Alexa Fluor 750-Bombesin (BBN) probes to target gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) receptors on prostate and breast cancer for optical molecular imaging. Confocal fluorescence microscopic imaging of the molecular probes for in vitro …
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Development of a TIRF Microscope for Single Molecule Binding Studies
… efforts to image PCNA – CAF-1 interactions with Alexa Fluor 488 at 5 mW observed flickering signals as outliers, and no detection of binding. SMI was established with a compatible 488 nm-50 mW laser for Alexa Fluor 488, but not for Cy3 that would require another appropriate laser. During the …
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Generation of recombinant SNAP-tag based antibody fusion proteins for immunotherapy of acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
… 10x Histidine (His) tag. The αCD33(scFv)-SNAP-Alexa 488 and αCD45(scFv)- SNAP-Alexa 488 fusion proteins were assessed for cell surface binding on AML cell lines using flow cytometry. The recombinant ADCs; αCD33(scFv)-SNAP-AURIF and αCD45(scFv)- SNAP-AURIF were then utilized in an XTT cell …
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Topological organization of the trigeminal system in the lamprey and restoration following axonal regeneration
… labeling techniques with fluorescent tracers, Alexa 488 and TRDA, were used to confirm the existence of a topological organization in normal and trigeminal-nerve lesioned animals. First, in normal animals, the topological organization of the trigeminal nerve was confirmed. Specifically, Alexa …
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Low-cost educational stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (eSTORM)
… of microspheres labeled with streptavidin-Alexa 647 conjugates, was developed to test the system, compare the image quality of two reconstruction programs (QuickPALM and rapidSTORM), and evaluate trade-offs in camera selection. Finally, by imaging defined actin features in 3T3 cells, the …
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Evaluation of QUIC on web page performance
… SPDY, and QUIC multiplexing protocols on the Alexa U.S. Top 500 websites, across 100+ network configurations of bandwidth and round-trip time (both static links and cellular networks). To do so, we design and implement QuicShell, a tool for measuring QUIC's Web page performance accurately and …
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Future talk : the race to build a bot that gabs like a human
… summer, Gunrock placed first in the 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize, a competition that challenges students to build the best "socialbot," a computer program that talks out loud and engages in "fun, high-quality conversations on popular societal topics." Although Gunrock is rudimentary compared to the …
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