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- Smart offices are designed to boost employee efficiency and well-being through innovative technologies, particularly voice assistants.
- This research explores how voice assistants can assist with tasks like ambient control, attendance tracking, and project management within smart office settings.
- Experimental findings indicate that interactions with voice assistants are effective for various tasks, especially simple to moderate commands, enhancing the overall smart office experience.
Article Abstract
Smart offices are dynamically evolving spaces meant to enhance employees' efficiency, but also to create a healthy and proactive working environment. In a competitive business world, the challenge of providing a balance between the efficiency and wellbeing of employees may be supported with new technologies. This paper presents the work undertaken to build the architecture needed to integrate voice assistants into smart offices in order to support employees in their daily activities, like ambient control, attendance system and reporting, but also interacting with project management services used for planning, issue tracking, and reporting. Our research tries to understand what are the most accepted tasks to be performed with the help of voice assistants in a smart office environment, by analyzing the system based on task completion and sentiment analysis. For the experimental setup, different test cases were developed in order to interact with the office environment formed by specific devices, as well as with the project management tool tasks. The obtained results demonstrated that the interaction with the voice assistant is reasonable, especially for easy and moderate utterances.
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