SkillPoV: Towards Accessible and Effective Privacy Notice for Amazon Alexa Voice Applications

Instructions

• Place your own openai api key in Line 6 of /DockerImage/code/privacy_notice_generator/chatGPT_summary.py
• Place the your own skills code in the /dataset/repos/your_name/your_skill_code. There is also an example folder under /dataset/repos.
• For more skills, please refer dataset/all_skills_dataset.csv.

If you prefer use Docker, Please exexute the following commands:

• Run ./build.sh
• Run ./run.sh (run again if /dataset/results directory has output but /dataset/repo doesn't have any update).
• You can check the reuslt from /dataset/repo. There will be a new index_new.js. And the json file has been modified.
• Upload modified files to Alexs skill developer console to test.
• Please note everytime you upload new repos or do any changes, rerun ./build.sh

You can also exexute the code directly:

• Run pip install openai
• Run pip install spacy
• Run python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
• Run DockerImage/code/data_collection_analysis/scan_skills.py
• Run DockerImage/code/privacy_notice_generator/main.py

Test on Alexa Developer Console

• Create account/sign in: Devloper Console
• Click "Create Skill" and input neccessay information
• For front-end code, follow the steps in the figures:
• For backend code, follow the steps in the figures:
• Click "Test" to interact with Alexa

Result

Demo Vide

• When the user opens this skill for the first time:

First_time_yes.mp4

• When the user opens this skill for the first time:

Non_first_time.mp4