Hello Everyone,
Yesterday, on February 8th 2009, I gave a presentation at the Multimodal Interfaces for Automotive Applications workshop, at this years Intelligent User Interfaces Conference. The title of my presentation was: Effects of Different Push-To-Talk Solutions on Subjective Driver Satisfaction.
The presentation went very well. The listeners seemed to have a great connection with the topic of driving simulation and various in-car user interfaces. They asked me a lot of very relevant questions after the presentation. Luckily, we have thought of most of the issues raised here, beforehand, during our research. On the other hand, we have received some very good ideas for directing our further research. The workshop chair, Christian Mueller suggested to explore usages of our wireless glove for a wider range of purposes in the car other than for PTT. Jacques Terken proposed the usage of visual gestures in activating the listening phase of speech recognition.
Also, Fan Yang of OGI gave a very good presentation at this workshop on Understanding Multi-Tasking Dialogue For Automotive Applications. Our Alex Shyrokov and Andrew Kun were appearing as the authors on this paper, which introduces some of our driving experiments on analyzing multi-threaded dialogues.
This year’s conference is held at the the beautiful Sanibel Island, Florida. The variety and beauty of wildlife and nature is really amazing here. Also, a setting Sun over the Gulf of Mexico provides a stunning vista for any viewer.
Be sure to check back to Ecebogger in the coming days for more reports on the IUI Conference.
Oszkar Palinko
4 comments
Andrew Kun says:
February 9, 2009 at 10:43 pm (UTC -4)
Is Jacques suggesting a vision algorithm to recognize the gestures or using a better instrumented glove?
oszkar says:
February 10, 2009 at 11:20 am (UTC -4)
He suggested using visual methods for recognizing hand gestures for PTT signal activation. If we would do this, we would need to make sure, that these gestures do not compromise the “hands on the wheel” concept.
I found Christian’s comment very interesting too, because we were also thinking about using the glove for purposes other than PTT.
It seems that the general idea here is, that presentations appearing on workshops could work their way up to short/long papers next year and short papers could potentially become long papers. So we could think about expanding the glove research to a more ubiquitous field and do an in-depth study. There seems to be interest in it in the research community.
Andrew Kun says:
February 10, 2009 at 3:11 pm (UTC -4)
I agree, the glove could be used in nice ways in addition to being PTT.
mlape says:
February 10, 2009 at 11:25 pm (UTC -4)
Oszkar,
Sounds like you did a great job on your presentation and you are having a great time! Good luck with the rest of the conference!
Matt