Virtual Assistants for the Cultural Heritage Domain

Tavċar, Aleš; Zupančič, Jernej; Gams, Matjaž

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05819-7_18

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“…In recent years, voice-enabled interaction, conversational agents and VAs, in particular, have become an integral element in the interaction of humans with machines in various domains [30], [31]. Other than the popular virtual assistants that most of us carry with our phones and have in our homes i.e., Amazon's Alexa 1 , Google's Assistant 2 and Apple's Siri 3 , VAs have been used in a wide variety of applications from controlling laboratory instruments [32], [33] to e-government interaction [34] and the cultural heritage domain [35].…”

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Hey Max, can you help me? An Intuitive Virtual Assistant for Industrial Robots

Li¹,

Chrysostomou²,

Pinto³

et al. 2022

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<p>Assisting employees in acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary to grasp and use new services and technologies on the shop floor is critical for manufacturers to adapt to Industry 4.0 successfully. In this paper, we employ a Learning, Training, Assistance (LTA) approach and propose a framework for a Language-enabled Virtual Assistant (VA) to facilitate this adaptation. In our system, the human-robot interaction is achieved through spoken natural language and a dashboard implemented as a web-based application. This type of interaction enables operators of all levels to control a collaborative robot intuitively in several industrial scenarios and use it as a complementary tool for developing their competencies. Our proposed framework has been extensively tested with 29 users who completed various tasks while interacting with the proposed VA and industrial robots. Through three different scenarios, we evaluated the usability of the system for LTA based on an established System Usability Scale and the cognitive effort required by the users based on the standardised NASA TLX questionnaire. The qualitative and quantitative results of the study show that users of all levels found the VA user friendly with low requirements for physical and mental effort during the interaction. Additionally, the study demonstrates that the VA enables operators to streamline the learning and training phases of new tasks and improve their user experience during the assistance phase for daily tasks. The source code of the proposed VA and the supplementary material of the user study are accessible at https://bit.ly/VA MAX to support the reproducibility of the proposed framework.</p>

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