Alexa will be your best friend when you're older - 0 views
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Cécile Christodoulou on 09 Sep 19"Leslie Miller's days are jam-packed. Being legally blind hasn't slowed down the 70-year-old resident of Casa de Mañana Retirement Community in La Jolla, California: she frequently gets lunches with friends, goes dancing, reads, and loves to listen to radio soap operas. Lately, she's gotten into guided meditation. None of that would be possible without Alexa." [...] "We want to meaningfully impact the lives of older adults," Davis Park, the project's executive director, says. Park notes that the voice assistants have been incredibly helpful for those, like Miller, with poor vision, and the project has experimented with using Alexa to help people with dementia know where they are if they are confused about their surroundings." Miller, like most of her fellow residents, finds her Echo Dot helpful for everyday tasks: What's the weather? Remind me of a lunch with so-and-so. What's the definition of this word?"