Practical Use of Virtual Assistants and Voice User Interfaces in Engineering Laboratories

TY - CHAP

T1 - Practical Use of Virtual Assistants and Voice User Interfaces in Engineering Laboratories

AU - Callaghan, MJ

AU - Bogdan Putinelu, Victor

AU - Ball, Jeremy

AU - Salillas, Jorge Caballero

AU - Vannier, Thibault

AU - Gomez Eguíluz, Augusto

AU - McShane, Niall

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PY - 2017/9/13

Y1 - 2017/9/13

N2 - Automatic Question-Answering (QA) systems and speech recognition/synthesis functionality and accuracy has improved dramatically over the last decade allowing the use of voice interactions for increasingly complex tasks. Virtual assistants, based on speech-based services are growing in popularity and are now entering the mainstream. These services and devices come with a set of built-in capabilities and in some instances allow the creation and addition of new functionality and abilities facilitating their use in a range of diverse application areas.Practical electronic and electrical engineering laboratories for undergraduate students are evolving incrementally driven by affordable instrumentation and hardware kit with internet access but remain fundamentally unchanged. This pa-per explores the practical use of virtual assistants and voice user interfaces in electronic and electrical engineering laboratories to tutor and assess students while accessing and controlling test instrumentation and circuits. The re-purposing of existing teaching resources and material for use in this context is discussed and a case study and practical working example of a virtual assistant enabled laboratory demonstrating the viability of this approach is shown.

AB - Automatic Question-Answering (QA) systems and speech recognition/synthesis functionality and accuracy has improved dramatically over the last decade allowing the use of voice interactions for increasingly complex tasks. Virtual assistants, based on speech-based services are growing in popularity and are now entering the mainstream. These services and devices come with a set of built-in capabilities and in some instances allow the creation and addition of new functionality and abilities facilitating their use in a range of diverse application areas.Practical electronic and electrical engineering laboratories for undergraduate students are evolving incrementally driven by affordable instrumentation and hardware kit with internet access but remain fundamentally unchanged. This pa-per explores the practical use of virtual assistants and voice user interfaces in electronic and electrical engineering laboratories to tutor and assess students while accessing and controlling test instrumentation and circuits. The re-purposing of existing teaching resources and material for use in this context is discussed and a case study and practical working example of a virtual assistant enabled laboratory demonstrating the viability of this approach is shown.

KW - Automatic Question-Answering (QA) systems

KW - speech recognition and synthesis

KW - virtual assistants

KW - voice user interface practical laboratories

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-64352-6_62

DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-64352-6_62

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-3-319-64351-9

VL - vol 22

SP - 660

EP - 671

BT - Online Engineering & Internet of Things. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

A2 - Auer, Michael

A2 - Zutin, Danilo Garbi

ER -