Artificial intelligence-enabled conversational user interfaces, commonly known as voice assistants, are increasingly being used by individuals in their day-to-day lives to fulfill diverse needs (e.g. utility, hedonic, and social). However, the homeostatic (steadily present) attraction of assistants is offset privacy risk concerns these devices present users. Despite growing literature on adopti...

Intelligent assistants that support human communication need to respect the difficulty of understanding the context surrounding the interchange. Rather than attempting to directly communicate for a user, intelligent assistants should support decision making on the part of the involved parties so that complex social negotiations are preserved. We describe an intelligent assistant that does this ...

Background: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed Anesthesia Assistants, "an essential and active group involved in the treatment care of these patients, to a lot stress that may affect their quality working life. aim this study is determine understand life among anaesthesia assistants, who are coping with COVID-19 non-COVID-19 intensive units".Method: This cross-sectiona...