Paper Info
Title
Using the Virtual Assistant Alexa as a Communication Channel for Road Traffic Situation.
Abstract
A virtual assistant is a software agent that can perform tasks or services for an individual. In 2017, the capabilities and usage of virtual assistants are expanding rapidly. In our work, we focused on virtual assistants integrated into smart devices like Amazon Echo, Google Home or Apple HomePod. Amazon virtual assistant Alexa has a leading position around the world and thanks to the opening the development platform, it offers an increasing number of available skills. The skill represents a functionality implemented by any independent developer and submitted for certification. After this skill passes certification, it is published in the Alexa Skills Store and available for anyone to use. We choose this virtual assistant as a new communication channel for traditional announcement about road traffic situation. We created two own skills to cover the typical questions about the current traffic situations like "how is the traffic in the city" or "how is the traffic on the way from one point to the second", etc. For this purpose, we designed and implemented middleware services to get relevant data based on user request from the road traffic database. Both skills were submitted for the certification, and the first one is already available in the Alexa Skills Store.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-319-98678-4_6
MULTIMEDIA AND NETWORK INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Virtual assistant,Traffic announcement,Alexa
Conference
833
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2194-5357
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Viktória Kerekesová100.34
Frantisek Babic2168.02
Vladimír Gaspar300.68