indica News Bureau- Individuals who fear to talk in front of a crowd could soon have a new tool to ease public speaking anxiety: their smart speaker. A team of researchers at Penn State has developed a public-speaking tutor on the Amazon Alexa platform. The tutor enables users to engage in cognitive restructuring exercise – […]
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Giving human touch to Alexa or Siri can backfire
IANS- An Indian American researcher-led team has found that giving a human touch to chatbots like Apple Siri or Amazon Alexa may actually disappoint users. Just giving a chatbot human name or adding human-like features to its avatar might not be enough to win over a user if the device fails to maintain a conversational […]