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Siri, Alexa, and Other Digital Assistants: A Study of Customer Satisfaction With Artificial Intelligence Applications
Siri, Alexa, and other digital assistants are rapidly becoming embraced by consumers and the adoption is projected to grow from 390 million to 1.8 billion for the period of 2015 to 2021. Digital assistants are offering benefits to consumers while also proving to be a disruptive technology for businesses. Coupling digital assistants with other artificial intelligence technologies offers the potential to transform companies by creating more efficient business processes, automating complex tasks, and improving the customer service experience. Businesses have begun integrating this technology into their operations with the expectation of achieving significant productivity gains. Customer satisfaction has been discussed extensively throughout marketing literature. Yet, there is little empirical evidence of customer satisfaction with digital assistants. This study used PLS-SEM to analyze 244 survey responses obtained from a cross-section of consumers. Using the Expectations Confirmation Theory as its foundation, the study identified that expectations and confirmation of expectations substantially explained customer satisfaction with digital assistants. For practice, the study provides guidance which allows firms to prioritize marketing and managerial activities. Firms should focus priorities on assisting digital assistant users to become aware of new skill capabilities while also providing relevant examples of how these skills can be used to meet user needs. In addition, priorities should be focused on assisting users with understanding how the average person can use digital assistants to perform more than just mundane tasks with relative ease. These priorities were identified as areas of high importance for customer satisfaction and require performance improvements
Robust Computer Algebra, Theorem Proving, and Oracle AI
In the context of superintelligent AI systems, the term "oracle" has two
meanings. One refers to modular systems queried for domain-specific tasks.
Another usage, referring to a class of systems which may be useful for
addressing the value alignment and AI control problems, is a superintelligent
AI system that only answers questions. The aim of this manuscript is to survey
contemporary research problems related to oracles which align with long-term
research goals of AI safety. We examine existing question answering systems and
argue that their high degree of architectural heterogeneity makes them poor
candidates for rigorous analysis as oracles. On the other hand, we identify
computer algebra systems (CASs) as being primitive examples of domain-specific
oracles for mathematics and argue that efforts to integrate computer algebra
systems with theorem provers, systems which have largely been developed
independent of one another, provide a concrete set of problems related to the
notion of provable safety that has emerged in the AI safety community. We
review approaches to interfacing CASs with theorem provers, describe
well-defined architectural deficiencies that have been identified with CASs,
and suggest possible lines of research and practical software projects for
scientists interested in AI safety.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figure
How Conversational Agents Influence Purchase Decisions of Online Fashion Shoppers toward Sustainable Consumption: Exploring Nudges for Green Decision-Making
With nudges, conversational agents (CAs) can be used to recommend environmentally sustainable products to individuals shopping online. CAs can thus influence individual purchase behaviors and have the potential to promote green decision-making. There is a lack of qualitative insights into how CA nudges might influence the purchase decisions of individuals in the specific context of sustainable fashion consumption â especially regarding customer perceptions of CAs trying to influence those decisions. We conducted an explorative survey with a qualitative online questionnaire of 79 fashion shoppers to determine how they think about CAs nudging their product choices and to derive propositions on how CA nudges should be designed to support green decision-making
Deep Thermal Imaging: Proximate Material Type Recognition in the Wild through Deep Learning of Spatial Surface Temperature Patterns
We introduce Deep Thermal Imaging, a new approach for close-range automatic
recognition of materials to enhance the understanding of people and ubiquitous
technologies of their proximal environment. Our approach uses a low-cost mobile
thermal camera integrated into a smartphone to capture thermal textures. A deep
neural network classifies these textures into material types. This approach
works effectively without the need for ambient light sources or direct contact
with materials. Furthermore, the use of a deep learning network removes the
need to handcraft the set of features for different materials. We evaluated the
performance of the system by training it to recognise 32 material types in both
indoor and outdoor environments. Our approach produced recognition accuracies
above 98% in 14,860 images of 15 indoor materials and above 89% in 26,584
images of 17 outdoor materials. We conclude by discussing its potentials for
real-time use in HCI applications and future directions.Comment: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
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Internet of robotic things : converging sensing/actuating, hypoconnectivity, artificial intelligence and IoT Platforms
The Internet of Things (IoT) concept is evolving rapidly and influencing newdevelopments in various application domains, such as the Internet of MobileThings (IoMT), Autonomous Internet of Things (A-IoT), Autonomous Systemof Things (ASoT), Internet of Autonomous Things (IoAT), Internetof Things Clouds (IoT-C) and the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) etc.that are progressing/advancing by using IoT technology. The IoT influencerepresents new development and deployment challenges in different areassuch as seamless platform integration, context based cognitive network integration,new mobile sensor/actuator network paradigms, things identification(addressing, naming in IoT) and dynamic things discoverability and manyothers. The IoRT represents new convergence challenges and their need to be addressed, in one side the programmability and the communication ofmultiple heterogeneous mobile/autonomous/robotic things for cooperating,their coordination, configuration, exchange of information, security, safetyand protection. Developments in IoT heterogeneous parallel processing/communication and dynamic systems based on parallelism and concurrencyrequire new ideas for integrating the intelligent âdevicesâ, collaborativerobots (COBOTS), into IoT applications. Dynamic maintainability, selfhealing,self-repair of resources, changing resource state, (re-) configurationand context based IoT systems for service implementation and integrationwith IoT network service composition are of paramount importance whennew âcognitive devicesâ are becoming active participants in IoT applications.This chapter aims to be an overview of the IoRT concept, technologies,architectures and applications and to provide a comprehensive coverage offuture challenges, developments and applications
Developing a service quality scale for artificial intelligence service agents
Purpose â Service providers and consumers alike are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence service agents
(AISA) for service. Yet, no service quality scale exists that can fully capture the key factors influencing AISA
service quality. This study aims to address this shortcoming by developing a scale for measuring AISA service
quality (AISAQUAL).
Design/methodology/approach â Based on extant service quality research and established scale development
techniques, the study constructs, refines and validates a multidimensional AISAQUAL scale through a series of
pilot and validation studies.
Findings â AISAQUAL contains 26 items across six dimensions: efficiency, security, availability, enjoyment,
contact and anthropomorphism. The new scale demonstrates good psychometric properties and can be used to
evaluate service quality across AISA, providing a means of examining the relationships between AISA service
quality and satisfaction, perceived value as well as loyalty.
Research limitations/implications â Future research should validate AISAQUAL with other AISA types as they
diffuse throughout the service sector. Moderating factors related to services, the customer and the AISA can be
investigated to uncover the boundary conditions under which AISAQUAL is likely to influence service outcomes.
Longitudinal studies can be carried out to assess how ongoing use of AISA can change service outcomes.
Practical implications â Service managers can use AISAQUAL to effectively monitor, diagnose and improve
services provided by AISA, whilst enhancing their understanding of how AISA can deliver better service quality
and customer loyalty outcomes.
Originality/value â Anthropomorphism is identified as a new service quality dimension. AISAQUAL facilitates
theory development by providing a reliable scale to improve the current understanding of consumersâ perspectives
concerning AISA services.
Keywords Artificial intelligence service agents; service quality; scale development; customer service
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