Tipo de publicación: Conference Paper
Publicado en: Advances in Human Factors and Systems Interaction
Autores- Carvajal, Luis
- Quesada, Luis
- López, Gustavo
- Brenes, Jose A.
- Nunes, Isabel L.
Investigadores del CITIC asociados a la publicación
Dr. Luis Quesada Quirós
Dr. Gustavo López Herrera
Mag. José Antonio Brenes Carranza
Proyecto asociado a la publicación
Proyecto sombrilla
- Alexa
- Amazon Echo
- Intelligent personal assistant
Amazon's Alexa is an intelligent personal assistant, developed to be used jointly with a Bluetooth Speaker and microphone hardware called Amazon Echo. Even though Alexa is supposed to be a natural user interface, its use is not very natural. As a user is intending to use Amazon's Alexa system, they must follow a very tighten and structured way to provide the commands for the system to achieve its goal. In this paper, we propose a proxy service called ``Plis''. This service was developed as a Skill to be used with the Amazon Echo. Therefore, a user can say: Alexa, ``plis'' and our functionality will start its job. Our skill determines from the natural way in which the user speaks what they are asking for. With that information, we create a query that would be further sent to other skills already providing the functionality required.