Responses to addiction help-seeking from Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana, and Bixby intelligent virtual assistants

Abstract We investigated how intelligent virtual assistants (IVA), including Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Samsung’s Bixby, responded to addiction help-seeking queries. We recorded if IVAs provided a singular response and if so, did they link users to treat...

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Main Authors: Alicia L. Nobles, Eric C. Leas, Theodore L. Caputi, Shu-Hong Zhu, Steffanie A. Strathdee, John W. Ayers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-01-01
Series:npj Digital Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-019-0215-9