Last Friday, 22nd October 2010, Dylan Fransway, Zeljko Medenica, Mark Taipan and I attended the New England Chapter of the Human Factors Ergonomics Society (NEC-HFES) 2010 Student conference in Cambridge, MA. The event took place at the first floor conference room of the Microsoft New England Research and Development (NERD) Center. The conference featured 16 …
Category Archive: Speech user interface
Apr
01
Bret Harsham talk at UNH
A couple of weeks ago our ECE department hosted Bret Harsham of Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) as a part of the ECE900 graduate seminar. Bret gave a very interesting lecture about the ways of shortening voice dialogs through using a contextual push-to-talk button. The title of the lecture was “Contextual Push-to-Talk: Shortening Voice Dialogs …
Aug
13
Summer internship at MERL
This summer I have had a great opportunity to be an intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) in Cambridge, MA. This is not only a great prospect for my professional career, but also a chance to experience how working in a real company looks like. MERL is a daughter company of the Mitsubishi Electric …
Mar
26
SiMPE Workshop at MobileHCI 2009
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 …
Mar
12
Commute UX at Microsoft TechFest 2009
Check out the video below in which Ivan Tashev, Mike Seltzer and Y.C. Ju discuss the Commute UX project at TechFest 2009. Last summer Oszkar and I visited the MSR driving simulator lab and it’s great to see how quickly Ivan and co. are making progress with the simulator. And it’s pretty cool that the …
Nov
18
My talk at Northeastern University: NECHFES student conference
Hello ecebloggers, Last week, a group of us from the lab had traveled to Boston’s Northeastern University, attending the NECHFES student conference. It was my first conference experience and I do have to say that it surpassed my expectations. The atmosphere was very relaxed, and presentations were nicely sequenced with 10 – 15 minute breaks. …
Nov
06
Project54 research featured in SLTC e-Newsletter
The Fall 2008 e-Newsletter of the Speech and Language Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society includes an article about the driving simulator-based research going on within Project54. Thanks to Mike Seltzer for his help with editing the article. Btw, the image that appears in the article was created by Alex Shyrokov and may …
Nov
03
Using voice to tag digital photographs on the spot
Hi ecebloggers, In the past I’ve discussed the imaging application, and in particular, the tagging capabilities it provides. Now it’s time to put the application to work. Tagging of media, particularly photographs, has become a very popular and efficient means of organizing material on the internet and on personal computers. Over a short period of …
Oct
29
Effects of using a push-to-talk button for speech user interfaces on visual attention
Hello ecebloggers, I’m very proud today because I’m writing about my first experiment. The experiment builds on two of our previous studies. In one of them Zeljko Medenica found that when speech recognition performance is poor, having to use a push-to-talk button results in worse driving performance than using ambient recognition (you can find the paper on …
Oct
28
License Plate Experiment
The last few weeks I have been working on designing a new driving experiment which would compare different user interfaces for entering license plate numbers into the police cruiser system for checking records. The two user interfaces are manual and speech. To be able to achieve this, license plates had to be added into our …