Siri, Alexa not as good as dialling 911
February 5, 2020
EDMONTON – Turning to virtual assistants for medical emergency information can be useless, shows new research from the University of Alberta. “We were hoping to find that the devices would have a better response rate, especially to statements like ‘someone is dying’ and ‘I want to die,’ versus things like ‘I have a sunburn or a sliver,’” said lead author Christopher Picard (pictured), a master’s student in the Faculty of Nursing and a clinical educator at Edmonton’s Misericordia Community Hospital emergency department. Read More