TY - GEN
T1 - Practical use of Virtual Assistants and Voice User Interfaces in Engineering Laboratories
AU - Callaghan, Michael
AU - Putinelu, Victor Bogdan
AU - Ball, Jeremy
AU - Salillas, Jorge Caballero
AU - Vannier, Thibault
AU - Gómez Eguíluz, Augusto
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PY - 2016/12/12
Y1 - 2016/12/12
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 paper 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 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 paper 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 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
M3 - Conference contribution
BT - Unknown Host Publication
PB - Springer
T2 - 14th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation
Y2 - 12 December 2016
ER -