The call for papers for the Fourth Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE) is now available. The workshop will focus on speech user interfaces for pervasive (ubiquitous) computing applications. SiMPE will be held in conjuntion with MobileHCI 2009 in Bonn. This is the fourth year SiMPE is being organized and I’m thrilled to be one of three new members of the Organizing Committee, along with Tim Paek and Ivan Tashev.

Some of the topics I hope will get attention at this year’s workshop are those related to leveraging speech for user interaction in cars. We encourage the submission of position papers on the best practices and techniques for facilitating effective interaction through on-board computers or mobile devices such as phones or media players. Topics of interest range from noise robustness technology, to the effects of speech interaction on driving performance, to societal and cultural issues relevant to in-car speech interaction.

For questions or comments please email me at andrew DOT kun AT unh DOT edu.

Andrew Kun

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