Probably everybody has at least some experience with the GPS-based personal navigation aids. They usually provide directions using voice prompts and information displayed on LCD screens. While such devices appear to be less distracting to use than paper directions, in-car displays may distract drivers from their primary task, driving. In order to assess how different …
Category Archive: Speech user interface
Aug
30
Speech User Interface Lecture – IIT Guwahati
Hi Ecebloggers, This time, I decided to write something about the current activities in my college, IIT Guwahati. After completing my internship at UNH , I always thought how I could promote the current research work at UNH and my pilot experiment work for obstacle testing during the internship period. Fortunately, the electronics department in …
Aug
29
Oszkar Palinko defends MS thesis
Last Friday Oskar Palinko defended his MS thesis. Oszkar’s thesis was centered around the cool push-to-talk (PTT) glove he has designed. Oszkar ran a rather large user study (24 participants) to evaluate if the PTT glove outperforms a fixed PTT button. While in comparing driving performance when using the two PTT solutions Oszkar didn’t find …
Aug
17
Tim Paek talk on mobile speech interaction
Last week Tim Paek of Microsoft Research visited the Project54 lab at UNH. Tim and I have been collaborating for about two years now, and this summer Tim is the supervisor of my PhD student, Zeljko Medenica, during Zeljko’s summer internship with MSR. As part of his visit Tim gave a talk on his research …
Aug
07
The Intelligent Environments Conference '08
A few day ago, Prof Andrew Kun, Andras Fekete and I visited the Intelligent Environments ’08 Conference in Seattle, WA. An earlier post already introduced this conference on eceblogger. We presented three works there. Andras had a great poster on the deployment of his new P54 PDA software. The poster session took place in the …
Jun
27
Automotive discussions at YRRSDS'08
This year’s Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems was a great place to share ideas with fellow speech research enthusiasts. Lots of attention was devoted to the design of spoken dialog systems in general (as the name of the event might suggest), but also to more specific areas, as automotive speech user interfaces. Besides …
Jun
24
Experience with DELL's spoken dialog system
Hello ecebloggers, A week ago I bought a laptop on DELL’s web site. After some difficulties I had experienced with their sales department I decided to call them and see what’s happening. Of course I ended up on their dialog system. I was asked to choose between “Home, Home office and business”. I said business …
Jun
22
Reporting from YRRSDS08
My colleague, Zeljko Medenica and I are participating at this year’s Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems in Columbus, Ohio. This is a very interesting event with lots of young speech researchers from all over the world. There are also representatives from different research and development companies interested in spoken dialog systems like: Microsoft …
Jun
18
Tap input for mobile phones
I recently came across an interesting paper from Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2007, describing work at Nokia on gesture-based input for mobile phones. One interesting aspect of the paper is the description of the first phase of the research in which the authors relied on videos presented to subjects online, to explore which gestures are …
Apr
22
Make Money While Driving a Simulator!
The above title is the caption of a flier I’m starting to distribute around UNH campus these days. It is a call for potential subjects to participate in one of our experiments which will test a number of hypotheses. Among others, we will be testing how does our wireless glove work as a push-to-talk activator. …