YANA, Virtual Assistant to Support Home Office
- Witman Alvarado-DIaz,
- Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades
Publication Information
Output type
Original language
EnglishPublication milestones
- Published - 2021
Publication status
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.Publication series
- Publication series name: Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Sciences and Humanities International Research Conference, SHIRCON 2021
ISBN (Electronic)
9781665429146Publication IDs
- Scopus: 85124416176
Host publication title
Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Sciences and Humanities International Research Conference, SHIRCON 2021Abstract
Since the last months of 2019 with the arrival of COVID-19, jobs changed due to confinement; for this reason remote work increased; In a survey carried out among workers from the Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades, the desire to improve the organization of their work schedule is mentioned, for this reason it was decided to create a virtual assistant, taking into account that virtual assistants and smart devices are increasingly more involved in daily life, devices that can be controlled with the voice, to perform specific activities, in some field of application, the virtual assistant created will help in the organization and recall of events, during remote work, based on these requirements, was born YANA, a virtual assistant developed in Python, which through voice instructions, guides you to organize your work schedule in addition to reminding you of upcoming events, thus managing to provide support in the organization of the agenda, leaving aside the concern of forgetting something Important event; Together with the development of YANA, it was possible to create a user interface, which allows us to control YANA and interact with it, since it is also capable of answering various questions that are asked, as well as the ability to follow a conversation; In the evaluation system developed to evaluate YANA's interaction with users, an average of 7 out of 10 was obtained from a series of questions posed to users.
