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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"personal assistant"”.
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Designing personal assistant software for task management using semantic web technologies and knowledge databases
… can be leveraged to build powerful applications. Personal assistant software (smart agent) can be used as an interface to the digital world to make the consumption of this information timely and efficient for the user's specific tasks. Goal of the thesis is to design personal assistant software …
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EventMinder : a personal calendar assistant that understands events
… of assistance that can be provided by a human personal assistant. Understanding calendar entries is a difficult problem because it involves integrating many types of knowledge: commonsense knowledge, about common events and the particular instances in the world, and user knowledge about the …
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Hover : A wearable object identification system for audio augmented reality interactions
… that may be tied to them, through an intelligent personal assistant. The system uses a fusion of sensors to be able to perform the identification of an object under a variety of conditions. Among these sensors there is a camera (operating in the visible and infrared spectrum), a small solid-state …
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Helping teams negotiate disruptions during task execution using distributed personal assistants
… situations. d-Uhura is a set of computational assistants that help individuals adapt quickly to disruptions. Typically, automated systems resort to replanning when execution failures occur. However, replanning is too disruptive for human teams, and people often adapt to small failures by …
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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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Exploration of alternative algorithms for multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation
… of delivering clean speech to a virtual personal assistant through a smart speaker with multi-channel audio (stereophonic, etc). The use of the Kalman filter as an alternative adaptive filter methodology for this MCAEC application is explored in this work. The Normalized Least Mean …
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Characterizing and Predicting Tasks at Risk in Team Task Management
… eventually not be completed on time, leading to personal or team losses in many situations. To support task-doers in completing their tasks, we conducted a mixed-methods study focusing on Microsoft Planner—a collaborative project management tool—to understand how users manage their tasks in a …
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The Task and Workslip Scheme for Personal Agent Systems
The Task and Workslip Scheme for Personal Agent Systems is a collection of concepts enabling the intelligent communication of small agents, and a set of philosophical guidelines to aid in the design of intelligent systems to assist people in day-to-day tasks. The intention behind the scheme is to …
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Regulating competence-based access to agent societies
… dynamic applications every day, he will need a personal assistant that possesses similar characteristics. The agent paradigm meets this requirement, since it exhibits the necessary features. As a result, the user will provide its personal agent assistant with a goal, e.g. I need a smartphone …
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Characterizing and Detecting Online Deception via Data-Driven Methods
… on new platforms such as Alexa and Google Assistant. In the first part of this thesis (Chapter 3), we focus on measuring how email providers detect and handle forged emails. We also try to understand how forged emails can reach user inboxes by deliberately composing emails. Finally, we …
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Application of Voice Personal Assistants in the Context of Smart University
Los asistentes personales de voz basados en técnicas avanzadas de comprensión del lenguaje natural se muestran como un recurso prometedor frente al reto del diseño de plataformas virtuales de aprendizaje. Específicamente, estos recursos pueden servir de apoyo para la mejora del proceso de …
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Personlig assistans i praktiken : Beredskap initiativ och vänskaplighet
Personal assistance is a user-directed service that was founded by a section of the disability movement, namely the American Independent Living movement, in the late 1960s. Today, the concept and ideology of personal assistance services (PAS) has spread worldwide, and constitutes a part of the …