Evaluating Voice Assistants' Responses to COVID-19 Vaccination in Portuguese: Quality Assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Voice assistants (VAs) are devices that respond to human voices and can be commanded to do a variety of tasks. Nowadays, VAs are being used to obtain health information, which has become a critical point of analysis for researchers in terms of question understanding and quality of response. Particularly, the COVID-19 pandemic has and still is severely affecting people worldwide, which demands studies on how VAs can be used as a tool to provide useful information.

Objective

This work aimed to perform a quality analysis of different VAs' responses regarding the actual and important subject of COVID-19 vaccines. We focused on this important subject since vaccines are now available and society has urged for the population to be rapidly immunized.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Serodio Figueiredo CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8942094 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature