Development of an Amazon Alexa App for a University Online Search

Jakob Rupitz; Markus Ebner; Martin Ebner

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-05657-4_10

Development of an Amazon Alexa App for a University Online Search

Jakob Rupitz
, Markus Ebner^*
, Martin Ebner

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Today, our homes become smarter and smarter. We started to interact with our home with Intelligent Personal Assistants, like Amazon Alexa. In this paper we want to present and give a review on the Alexa skill developed for an online search for resources like rooms, courses, and persons. The goal is to provide the users an easy-to-use way to ask for information like phone numbers, e-mail addresses, room details, ... and the Alexa Skill should provide this information also in an easy understandable way. We will describe how we solved to formulate suitable search queries from spoken Alexa commands and how we presented them to the user accordingly. Other obstacles like the presentation of the search results, due to the limited context and prioritization for individual search results, to the user will be discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing the Learner and Teacher Experience
Subtitle of host publication	9th International Conference, LCT 2022 Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022 Virtual Event, June 26 – July 1, 2022 Proceedings
Editors	Panayiotis Zaphiris, Andri Ioannou
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Pages	126-139
Number of pages	14
Volume	1
ISBN (Print)	9783031056567
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05657-4_10
Publication status	Published - 16 Jun 2022
Event	24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022 - Virtuell, Sweden Duration: 26 Jun 2022 → 1 Jul 2022 https://2022.hci.international/

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	13328

Conference

Conference	24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022
Abbreviated title	HCII 2022
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Virtuell
Period	26/06/22 → 1/07/22
Internet address	https://2022.hci.international/

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

Keywords

Amazon alexa
Amazon echo
Smart home
Voice user interface
Voice-based search

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Rupitz, J., Ebner, M., & Ebner, M. (2022). Development of an Amazon Alexa App for a University Online Search. In P. Zaphiris, & A. Ioannou (Eds.), Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing the Learner and Teacher Experience: 9th International Conference, LCT 2022 Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022 Virtual Event, June 26 – July 1, 2022 Proceedings (Vol. 1, pp. 126-139). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13328). Springer International Publishing AG . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05657-4_10

Development of an Amazon Alexa App for a University Online Search. / Rupitz, Jakob; Ebner, Markus ; Ebner, Martin.
Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing the Learner and Teacher Experience: 9th International Conference, LCT 2022 Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022 Virtual Event, June 26 – July 1, 2022 Proceedings. ed. / Panayiotis Zaphiris; Andri Ioannou. Vol. 1 Cham: Springer International Publishing AG , 2022. p. 126-139 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13328).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review

Rupitz, J, Ebner, M & Ebner, M 2022, Development of an Amazon Alexa App for a University Online Search. in P Zaphiris & A Ioannou (eds), Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing the Learner and Teacher Experience: 9th International Conference, LCT 2022 Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022 Virtual Event, June 26 – July 1, 2022 Proceedings. vol. 1, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13328, Springer International Publishing AG , Cham, pp. 126-139, 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022, Virtuell, Sweden, 26/06/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05657-4_10

Rupitz J, Ebner M , Ebner M. Development of an Amazon Alexa App for a University Online Search. In Zaphiris P, Ioannou A, editors, Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing the Learner and Teacher Experience: 9th International Conference, LCT 2022 Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022 Virtual Event, June 26 – July 1, 2022 Proceedings. Vol. 1. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG . 2022. p. 126-139. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-05657-4_10

Rupitz, Jakob ; Ebner, Markus ; Ebner, Martin. / Development of an Amazon Alexa App for a University Online Search. Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing the Learner and Teacher Experience: 9th International Conference, LCT 2022 Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022 Virtual Event, June 26 – July 1, 2022 Proceedings. editor / Panayiotis Zaphiris ; Andri Ioannou. Vol. 1 Cham : Springer International Publishing AG , 2022. pp. 126-139 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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