Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Tuning Home Robotics to Kids’ Frequency

The use of home robotics is on a roll as nearly 40 million U.S. homes have a voice-activated assistant like an Amazon Echo or Google Home, and it’s estimated that by 2022, more than half of U.S. households will own one. But voice-activated devices often fail to respond to children.

A new University of Washington study finds that children communicate with technology differently than adults do, and a more responsive device — one that repeats or prompts the user, for example — could be...


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