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Security with IoT
Published in Rebecca Lee Hammons, Ronald J. Kovac, Fundamentals of Internet of Things for Non-Engineers, 2019
Google Home is a virtual assistant and smart Wi-Fi-connected speaker developed by Google. Google Home also has different hardware configurations including the original Home, the Mini, and the Max. The original Home has a full range speaker and is a cylindrical device with a similar footprint to the Echo. The Mini is the small footprint Home unit about the size of a flattened baseball with all the same functionality, aside from the full range smart speaker (similar to the Dot). The Max went the route of major sound with stereo speakers including subwoofers and connectivity that includes a USB type C and standard analog audio connectors. It seems a certainty that LCD screen versions of Google Home will show up soon. Google uses the activation keywords of ‘Hey Google’ or ‘Ok Google’ to summon the virtual assistant.
Alexa, What Day Is It Again?
Published in Paul A. Rodgers, Design for People Living with Dementia, 2022
Jeanie Beh, Sonja Pedell, Alison de Kruiff, Ann Reilly
Current artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as Alexa and Google Home are built around a customised experience. At the start of 2020, there were over 100,000 Alexa skills (sets of instructions for carrying out a task) that integrated with 100,000 Alexa-compatible smart home products from over 9,500 different product brands (Khalid, 2020). Google Home provides different content to different people based on their voice-match (Bizzao and Liu, 2020). This project builds on recent research that has explored the use of these voice-assisted AI technologies, or virtual assistants, for older people living with dementia to support independent living (Astell et al., 2019; Moyle, 2019).
Potential Applications of Internet of Things Technology
Published in Abhik Chaudhuri, Internet of Things, for Things, and by Things, 2018
Google Home21 is a smart, voice-activated speaker with hands-free help from Google Assistant (Figure 4.20). It is activated by the voice command ‘OK Google’ or ‘Hey Google’. It supports multiple users and can distinguish individual voices for a personalized experience. With Google Home, users can make calls by voice command. If a particular contact has multiple numbers, then Google Assistant will read out the associated numbers of the contact to help the user choose the right number by voice command.
‘How should my family assistant be?’: initial perceptions about prospective and anticipated use of in-home virtual assistants in an emerging context
Published in Behaviour & Information Technology, 2023
Aslı Günay, Gülşen Töre Yargın, Sedef Süner-Pla-Cerdà, Mert Kulaksız
We questioned initial perceptions about the prospective and anticipated use of VAs for home use by presenting use case videos to the participants. Considering the accessibility of videos and inclusion of diversified features, we used publicly available advertisement videos of four VA technologies. These use case videos represent a variety of products so that richer user perceptions could be retrieved, even though the primary feature in most of them had to be VUI. As such, we considered both currently available designs and futuristic concepts. Three of them were in the market, and one of them was a conceptual design. The selected technologies were ‘Google Home’, ‘Amazon Echo’, ‘Tapia’, and ‘Beko’s Tomorrow’s Home’. Google Home is a voice-activated smart home speaker-like VA, also marketed as a smart home control centre. Amazon Echo is a voice-activated smart home speaker with the VA Alexa, which assists users through multiple skills, such as voice purchases. Tapia is a characterful and emotional robotic companion VA that learns users’ lifestyles and helps them stay in contact with friends and relatives. Beko’s Tomorrow’s Home is a connected home service concept in which all appliances at home are connected, and users interact with a more ubiquitous VA embedded in these appliances. Although the sample group may have previous knowledge about these brands and products from global news and publicly available videos on the Internet, their preconceptions about the products and brands are still of value to understand their perceptions regarding the prospective and anticipated use of these technologies. Therefore neither the brands nor the names of the products are disguised in the videos. Table 2 summarises the features of these VAs as depicted in the videos.