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A Reference Model for Collaborative Business Intelligence Virtual Assistants
Collaborative Business Analysis (CBA) is a methodology that involves bringing
together different stakeholders, including business users, analysts, and
technical specialists, to collaboratively analyze data and gain insights into
business operations. The primary objective of CBA is to encourage knowledge
sharing and collaboration between the different groups involved in business
analysis, as this can lead to a more comprehensive understanding of the data
and better decision-making. CBA typically involves a range of activities,
including data gathering and analysis, brainstorming, problem-solving,
decision-making and knowledge sharing. These activities may take place through
various channels, such as in-person meetings, virtual collaboration tools or
online forums. This paper deals with virtual collaboration tools as an
important part of Business Intelligence (BI) platform. Collaborative Business
Intelligence (CBI) tools are becoming more user-friendly, accessible, and
flexible, allowing users to customize their experience and adapt to their
specific needs. The goal of a virtual assistant is to make data exploration
more accessible to a wider range of users and to reduce the time and effort
required for data analysis. It describes the unified business intelligence
semantic model, coupled with a data warehouse and collaborative unit to employ
data mining technology. Moreover, we propose a virtual assistant for CBI and a
reference model of virtual tools for CBI, which consists of three components:
conversational, data exploration and recommendation agents. We believe that the
allocation of these three functional tasks allows you to structure the CBI
issue and apply relevant and productive models for human-like dialogue,
text-to-command transferring, and recommendations simultaneously. The complex
approach based on these three points gives the basis for virtual tool for
collaboration. CBI encourages people, processes, and technology to enable
everyone sharing and leveraging collective expertise, knowledge and data to
gain valuable insights for making better decisions. This allows to respond more
quickly and effectively to changes in the market or internal operations and
improve the progress
Chatbots for Modelling, Modelling of Chatbots
Tesis Doctoral inĂ©dita leĂda en la Universidad AutĂłnoma de Madrid, Escuela PolitĂ©cnica Superior, Departamento de IngenierĂa Informática. Fecha de Lectura: 28-03-202
Potentials of Chatbot Technologies for Higher Education: A Systematic Review
Chatbots are used in different areas such as customer service, healthcare and education. The potential for improving outcomes and processes in education is high but differs for different types of chatbots. As universities want to provide excellent teaching, it is important to find the chatbot technologies with the greatest possible benefit. This paper presents a systematic review of chatbot technologies in five application areas. For each application area, the ten most cited publications are analysed and a possible categorisation scheme for chatbot technologies is derived. Furthermore, it is investigated which chatbot technology types are used and their suitability for higher education is analysed. The results show that chatbots can be categorised using five categories derived from the 50 publications. A total of 14 different types of chatbot technologies are found in the five areas. Nine of them are suitable for use in higher education
Interacting with educational chatbots: A systematic review
Chatbots hold the promise of revolutionizing education by engaging learners, personalizing learning activities, supporting educators, and developing deep insight into learners’ behavior. However, there is a lack of studies that analyze the recent evidence-based chatbot-learner interaction design techniques applied in education. This study presents a systematic review of 36 papers to understand, compare, and reflect on recent attempts to utilize chatbots in education using seven dimensions: educational field, platform, design principles, the role of chatbots, interaction styles, evidence, and limitations. The results show that the chatbots were mainly designed on a web platform to teach computer science, language, general education, and a few other fields such as engineering and mathematics. Further, more than half of the chatbots were used as teaching agents, while more than a third were peer agents. Most of the chatbots used a predetermined conversational path, and more than a quarter utilized a personalized learning approach that catered to students’ learning needs, while other chatbots used experiential and collaborative learning besides other design principles. Moreover, more than a third of the chatbots were evaluated with experiments, and the results primarily point to improved learning and subjective satisfaction. Challenges and limitations include inadequate or insufficient dataset training and a lack of reliance on usability heuristics. Future studies should explore the effect of chatbot personality and localization on subjective satisfaction and learning effectiveness
The Role of Vidura Chatbot in the Diffusion of KnowCOVID-19 Gateway
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global emergency. Clinicians and medical researchers are suddenly thrown into a situation where they need to keep up with the latest and best evidence for decision-making at work in order to save lives and develop solutions for COVID-19 treatments and preventions. However, a challenge is the overwhelming numbers of online publications with a wide range of quality. We explain a science gateway platform designed to help users to filter the overwhelming amount of literature efficiently (with speed) and effectively (with quality), to find answers to their scientific questions. It is equipped with a chatbot to assist users to overcome infodemic, low usability, and high learning curve. We argue that human-machine communication via a chatbot play a critical role in enabling the diffusion of innovations
A digital business ecosystem maturity model for personal service firms
Personal services can be found in sectors such as education, retail,
hospitality, and craftsmanship. As of today, personal service firms lack the
know-how and experience on how to implement processes and practices to
effectively build digital business ecosystems. This becomes an obstacle for
these kinds of firms to overcome the challenges of todays digital age. Based on
the guidelines of Design Science Research (DSR), we address this gap by
proposing a maturity model, which offers specific guidance for this sector to
be able to achieve the transition from analog to digital. The design of the
model is grounded in a systematic literature review, semi-structured
interviews, and a validation test involving company representatives from the
field of personal services, business ecosystems, and digitalization. Results
revealed a series of dimensions, capabilities, and maturity stages indicating
an evolutionary path towards digital maturity for personal service firms. Thus,
leading them to achieve a digital business ecosystem.Comment: This is a draft chapter. The final version is available in Handbook
on Digital Business Ecosystems edited by Sabine Baumann, published in 2022,
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839107191.0002
LOOKING BENEATH THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG: THE TWO-SIDED NATURE OF CHATBOTS AND THEIR ROLES FOR DIGITAL FEEDBACK EXCHANGE
Enterprises are forecasted to spend more on chatbots than on mobile app development by 2021. Up to today little is known on the roles chatbots play in facilitating feedback exchange. However, digitization and automation put pressure on companies to setup digital work environments that enable reskilling of employees. Therefore, a structured analysis of feedback-related chatbots for Slack was conducted. Our results propose six archetypes that reveal the roles of chatbots in facilitating feedback exchange on performance, culture and ideas. We show that chatbots do not only consist of conversational agents integrated into instant messenger but are tightly linked to complementary front-end systems such as mobile and web apps. Like the upper part of an iceberg, the conversational agent is above water and visible within the chat, whereas many user interactions of feedback-related chatbots are only possible outside of the instant messenger. Further, we extract six design principles for chatbots as digital feedback systems. We do this by analyzing chatbots and linking empirically observed design features to (meta-)requirements derived from explanatory theory on feedback, self-determination and persuasive systems. The results suggest that chatbots benefit the social environment of conversation agents and the richness of the graphical user interface of external applications
Artificial intelligent based teaching and learning approaches: A comprehensive review
The goal of this study is to investigate the potential effects that Artificial intelligence (AI) could have on education. The narrative and framework for investigating AI that emerged from the preliminary research served as the basis for the study’s emphasis, which was narrowed down to the use of AI and its effects on administration, instruction, and student learning. According to the findings, artificial intelligence has seen widespread adoption and use in education, particularly by educational institutions and in various contexts and applications. The development of AI began with computers and technologies related to computers; it then progressed to web-based and online intelligent education systems; and finally, it applied embedded computer systems in conjunction with other technologies, humanoid robots, and web-based chatbots to execute instructor tasks and functions either independently or in partnership with instructors. By utilizing these platforms, educators have been able to accomplish a variety of administrative tasks. In addition, because the systems rely on machine learning and flexibility, the curriculum and content have been modified to match the needs of students. This has led to improved learning outcomes in the form of higher uptake and retention rates
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