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Human interaction in natural language with computer systems has been a prime focus of research, and the field of conversational agents (including chatbots and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems) has evolved significantly since 2009, with a majo...

Mental health conditions affect many young people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where stigma is high and access to care is limited. Digital tools accessible on basic mobile phones offer a scalable way to promote mental health, but evidence on their ef...

The rapid rise of voice user interface technology has changed the way users traditionally interact with interfaces, as tasks requiring gestural or visual attention are swapped by vocal commands. This shift has equally affected designers, required to...

With the rapid development of intelligent transportation systems, voice assistants are increasingly integrated into driving environments, providing an effective means to mitigate the risks of fatigued driving. This study explored drivers’ inter...

Online travel booking has become increasingly popular; however, most travel websites do not yet offer voice interaction. This study introduces VoiceBack, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven voice-based feedback system conceptualized to support bot...

AI-based educational chatbots can expand access to learning, but many remain limited to text-only interfaces and fixed infrastructures, while purely generative responses raise concerns of reliability and consistency. In this context, we present ROboM...

Perceptual sociophonetic work on Guatemalan Spanish has demonstrated that listeners are more likely to link male voices with traditional Maya clothing, the traje típico, when their speech includes features of Mayan-accented Spanish. However, a...

With the development and innovation of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, users can regulate their social lives and personal emotions through continuous interaction with AI voice assistants or chatbots. Based on the value-based adoption model (...

This paper explores the rise in voice-based social media as a pivotal transformation in digital communication, situated within the broader era of chatbots and voice AI. Platforms such as Clubhouse, X Spaces, Discord and similar ones foreground vocal...

Online consumer complaints are closely related to business reputation and elicit managers’ persistent efforts. However, service providers in the sharing economy (SE) lack the skills to communicate with consumers because most are informal or non...

Is hemisphere lateralization for speech processing linked to handedness? To answer this question, we compared hemisphere lateralization for speech processing and handedness in 18-month-old infants, the age at which infants start to produce words and...

Hands-free computer interaction is a key topic in assistive technology, with camera-based and voice-based systems being the most common methods. Recent camera-based solutions leverage facial expressions or head movements to simulate mouse clicks or k...

The metaverse, where users interact through avatars, is evolving to closely mirror the real world, requiring realistic object responses based on users’ emotions. While technologies like eye-tracking and hand-tracking transfer physical movements...

With the rapid rise of digitalization in the global economy, home security systems have become increasingly important for personal comfort and property protection. The collaboration between humans, the Internet of Things (IoT), and smart homes can be...

The inclusion of life history as a possible influential factor is pivotal in studies on behavior, welfare, and cognition. Shelter dogs have usually experienced a life involving poor social interactions with humans. Thus, we aimed to investigate the b...

Flexible pressure sensors have been studied as wearable voice-recognition devices to be utilized in human-machine interaction. However, the development of highly sensitive, skin-attachable, and comfortable sensing devices to achieve clear voice detec...

In contemporary development, autonomous vehicles (AVs) have emerged as a potential solution for sustainable and smart transportation to fulfill the increasing mobility demands whilst alleviating the negative impacts on society, the economy, and the e...

Prematurity is a major risk factor for perinatal stress and neonatal complications leading to systemic inflammation and abnormal mother–infant interactions. Oxytocin (OT) is a neuropeptide regulating the inflammatory response and promoting moth...

We proposed and implemented a sound recognition system for electric equipment control. In recent years, industry 4.0 has propelled a rapid growth in intelligent human–machine interactions. User acoustic voice commands for machine control have been ex...

In the context of global demographic aging, falls among the elderly remain a major public health concern, often leading to injury, hospitalization, and loss of autonomy. This study proposes a real-time fall detection system that combines a modern com...

Smart speakers, such as Alexa and Google Home, support daily activities in smart home environments. Even though voice commands enable friction-less interactions, existing financial transaction authorization mechanisms hinder usability. A non-invasive...

The hospitality industry, well-known for its energetic and people-intensive nature, frequently depends on effective leadership to motivate teamwork and safeguard sustainable operational success. Nevertheless, leadership approaches may significantly i...

News coverage provides an influential platform for sharing and amplifying women’s perspectives and expertise, yet women remain significantly underrepresented as sources in the news. Despite increasing awareness of the gender imbalance in news,...

Virtual assistants, deployed on smartphone and smart speaker devices, enable hands-free financial transactions by voice commands. Even though these voice transactions are frictionless for end users, they are susceptible to typical attacks to authenti...

Effective turn-taking is fundamental to conversational interactions, shaping the fluidity of communication across human dialogues and interactions with spoken dialogue systems (SDS). Despite its apparent simplicity, conversational turn-taking involve...

A significant therapeutic challenge for people with disabilities is the development of verbal and echoic skills. Digital voice assistants (DVAs), such as Amazon’s Alexa, provide networked intelligence to billions of Internet-of-Things devices and hav...

Visual impairment affects millions worldwide, creating significant barriers to environmental interaction and independence. Existing assistive technologies often rely on cloud-based processing, raising privacy concerns and limiting accessibility in re...

This study presents an approach for developing digital avatars replicating individuals’ physical characteristics and communicative style, contributing to research on virtual interactions in the metaverse. The proposed method integrates large la...

In the face of growing demand for emergency treatment in mass casualty incidents involving acute hemorrhagic shock, disaster sites often suffer from limited search and rescue manpower and inadequate medical detection capabilities. With the rapid deve...

In recent years, advancements in artificial intelligence, speech, and natural language processing technology have enhanced spoken dialogue systems (SDSs), enabling natural, voice-based human–computer interaction. However, discrete, token-based...

Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly those enhanced through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, such as ChatGPT, have opened up new possibilities for natural and open-ended spoken interaction in social robotics. However, these models ar...

This study examines the effects of three interactive voice assistant (VA) features (responsiveness, ubiquitous connectivity, and personalization) on consumer happiness. An online survey was administered to 316 VA consumers, and the data were analyzed...

Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are autonomous interaction interfaces designed to communicate with humans. This study investigates the impact of response delays and emotional facial expressions of ECAs on user perception and engagement. The mot...

This study introduces DAVE (Digital Assistant for Virtual Engineering), a Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT)-powered digital assistant prototype, designed to enable real-time, multimodal interactions within Building Information Modeling (BIM) e...

Background/Objectives: The voice is often perceived as a natural and spontaneous means of communication, but it involves complex interactions among physiological, psychological, and environmental factors. For teachers, whose profession relies heavily...

Voice-based interfaces have become one of the most popular device capabilities, recently being regarded as one flagship user experience of smart consumer devices. However, the lack of common coordination mechanisms might often degrade the user experi...

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant challenges to all facets of education. As students are slowly repopulating university campuses after lockdowns and online learning, universities are looking into ways to ensure social distancing can be main...

Against the backdrop of the rapid advancement of intelligent speech interaction and holographic display technologies, this paper introduces an interactive holographic display system. This paper applies 2D-to-3D technology to acquisition work and uses...

Workplace bullying is a widespread yet rarely recognized stressor that impairs employee productivity and organizational harmony. It requires attention in the hospitality industry, where a high volume of interpersonal interactions occurs. It is essent...

Speech intelligibility is a concern for public health, especially in non-ideal listening conditions where listeners often listen to the target speech in the presence of background noise. With advances in technology, synthetic speech has been increasi...

We explored how participants learning English as a foreign language (EFL) perceive the use of ChatGPT for English communication in combination with voice control for GPT, a Google Chrome extension, both of which are AI chatbot functionalities. A revi...

The effect of extensive human presence and regular gentle handling performed at an early age (0–3 months old) on stress responses and reactivity of juvenile ostriches towards humans was investigated. A total of 416 ostrich chicks over two years were...

Traditional 3D animation creation involves a process of motion acquisition, dubbing, and mouth movement data binding for each character. To streamline animation creation, we propose combining artificial intelligence (AI) with a motion capture system....

Background: Generative AI and synthetic media have enabled realistic human Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) or avatars. A subset of this technology replicates faces and voices to create realistic likenesses. When combined with avatars, these met...

This study provides insights into young consumers’ responses to sustainable labels. Drawing on signaling theory, the article studies how third-party labels (TPLs) act and interact with company-level claims, trying to better understand their imp...

Active learning promises richer engagement, yet transnational English-medium engineering classrooms can remain quiet even when students are motivated. This study aims to explain this silence by examining the factors that encourage students to partici...

This research presents a novel conceptual framework for inclusive education by integrating Internet of Things (IoT)-driven real-time environmental and behavioral monitoring with adaptive teaching strategies. Unlike traditional methods, our model leve...

This paper proposes emotion amplification for TV chat agents allowing users to get more excited in TV sports programs, and a model that estimates the excitement level of TV programs based on the number of social comment posts. The proposed model extr...

One’s internal state is mainly communicated through nonverbal cues, such as facial expressions, gestures and tone of voice, which in turn shape the corresponding emotional state. Hence, emotions can be effectively used, in the long term, to for...

The increasing popularity of social media worldwide provides us with an opportunity to understand social, cultural, and environmental issues about people’s perception of sustainability. The article aims at identifying the main topics of communi...