tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "A Multimodal Interface for Access to Content in the Home"

In order to effectively access the rapidly increasing range of media content available in the home, new kinds of more natural interfaces are needed. In this paper, we explore the application of multimodal interface technologies to searching and browsing a database of movies. The resulting system allows users to access movies using speech, pen, remote control, and dynamic combinations of these modalities. An experimental evaluation, with more than 40 users, is presented contrasting two variants of the system: one combining speech with traditional remote control input and a second where the user has a tablet display supporting speech and. | A Multimodal Interface for Access to Content in the Home Michael Johnston AT T Labs Research Florham Park New Jersey USA johnston@ research. Luis Fernando D Haro Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid Spain lfdharo@die. Michelle Levine AT T Labs Research Florham Park New Jersey USA mfl@research. Bernard Renger AT T Labs Research Florham Park New Jersey USA renger@ research. Abstract In order to effectively access the rapidly increasing range of media content available in the home new kinds of more natural interfaces are needed. In this paper we explore the application of multimodal interface technologies to searching and browsing a database of movies. The resulting system allows users to access movies using speech pen remote control and dynamic combinations of these modalities. An experimental evaluation with more than 40 users is presented contrasting two variants of the system one combining speech with traditional remote control input and a second where the user has a tablet display supporting speech and pen input. 1 Introduction As traditional entertainment channels and the internet converge through the advent of technologies such as broadband access movies-on-demand and streaming video an increasingly large range of content is available to consumers in the home. However to benefit from this new wealth of content users need to be able to rapidly and easily find what they are actually interested in and do so effortlessly while relaxing on the couch in their living room a location where they typically do not have easy access to the keyboard mouse and close-up screen display typical of desktop web browsing. Current interfaces to cable and satellite television services typically use direct manipulation of a graphical user interface using a remote control. In order to find content users generally have to either navigate a complex pre-defined and often deeply embedded menu structure or type in titles or other key phrases using an .