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User Profiling Through Zero-Permission Sensors And Machine Learning, Ahmed Elhussiny
User Profiling Through Zero-Permission Sensors And Machine Learning, Ahmed Elhussiny
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With the rise of mobile and pervasive computing, users are often ingesting content on the go. Services are constantly competing for attention in a very crowded field. It is only logical that users would allot their attention to the services that are most likely to adapt to their needs and interests. This matter becomes trivial when users create accounts and explicitly inform the services of their demographics and interests. Unfortunately, due to privacy and security concerns, and due to the fast nature of computing today, users see the registration process as an unnecessary hurdle to bypass, effectively refusing to provide …
Artificially Intelligent Communication: An Exploratory Study On Replika Mobile Application, Nouran El-Ashry
Artificially Intelligent Communication: An Exploratory Study On Replika Mobile Application, Nouran El-Ashry
Theses and Dissertations
This paper aims to address artificial intelligence from a communication perspective by looking at the usage of Replika, an AI-based platform. A quantitative survey was conducted to analyze the frequency of usage, attitude toward the application and the level of attachment to it. Moreover, qualitative questions were developed to get in-depth understanding of the type of relationship users have with their Replika application and reasons behind their usage. Results show no significant relationship between demographics and the application consumption except for age where older users communicate more frequently with the application than younger ones. Moreover, attachment levels were related to …