EMBASSI multimodal assistance for infotainment and service infrastructures

Herfet, Thorsten; Kirste, Thomas; Schnaider, Michael

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“…A user study [9] conducted as part of the research project EMBASSI (see [7,8]) revealed a number of interesting facts about how users like to select TV programmes. In a Wizardof-Oz experiment, candidates were situated in front of a computer display that suggested an automatic recommender system to be at work.…”

Section: How Do Viewers Select Tv Programmes?mentioning

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Ludwig

Mandl

Mammen

2006

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

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This paper presents an approach to exploit free text descriptions of TV programmes as available from EPG data sets for a TV recommender system that takes the content of programmes into account. The paper focuses on the natural language understanding problem underlying the analysis of free text descriptions and on methods of classifying free text descriptions with respect to a natural language user query. We close with an evaluation of user acceptance and a discussion of future work.

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Ludwig

Mandl

Mammen

2006

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

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“…A mobile PDA can be used as a telephone, tourist guide, remote control, calendar, or Web-access device. In the EMBASSI project [2], we are working on multi-modal user interaction in a private household scenario where users access information through different terminal devices such as TV sets, desktop computers, and PDA. The question emerges, how to present the same information on these different device types in order to assist and also to please the user in the best way.…”

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Device-dependant modality selection for user-interfaces

Elting

Zwickel

Malaka

2002

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

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%675$&7The presentation of information using multiple modalities influences the perception of users, their comfort, and their performance in using a computer-based information system. This paper presents a user study investigating the effects of different output modality-combinations on the effectiveness to transport information and on the user's acceptance of the system. We chose a tourist information system as a test environment and conducted the study on three different devices (PDA, TV set, and desktop computer) to investigate whether the best modality-combination depends on the used device. It turned out that the modality-combination of spoken text in connection with a picture was the most effective regarding recall-performance. This effect was strongest for users working with PDAs, which can be explained by the cognitive load theory. In contrast to this, participants ranked different modality combinations as most appealing, namely those with written text..H\ZRUGV user studies, user interfaces, multi-modal, device adaptation, cognitive load theory.,1752'8&7,21The design of intelligent user interfaces becomes increasingly important for software designers and also for the design of consumer electronic devices. This process is due to the fact that software becomes more complex and systems become integrated into a ubiquitous information infrastructure. The paradigm of "one device -one functionality" is over and today we can access mutually any service through any device. A TV set for instance is nowadays a control center for various applications, e.g., video programming, e-commerce, Web-browsing and more. A mobile PDA can be used as a telephone, tourist guide, remote control, calendar, or Web-access device. In the EMBASSI project [2], we are working on multi-modal user interaction in a private household scenario where users access information through different terminal devices such as TV sets, desktop computers, and PDA. The question emerges, how to present the same information on these different device types in order to assist and also to please the user in the best way.Insights to human processing of multi-modal information can be gained from so-called dual task experiments, in which two different tasks have to be solved at the same time. In general, people perform better when the two tasks are rather different than similar (e.g.[5]). A neuropsychological account for this could be the separation of different modality-specific areas (e.g. for auditory presented and visually presented texts) in the working memory of the brain (e.g.[5]).The cognitive load theory of Sweller et al.[6] explains this using Baddeley's model [7] where two separate sub-systems for visual and auditory memory work relatively independent. The load can be reduced when both subsystems are active compared to processing all information in a single sub-system. Due to this reduced load, more resources are available for processing the information in more depth and thus for storing in long-term memory. Therefore, they propose to use different moda...

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“…The EMBASSI project [8,19] comprises a large group of leading industrial and research facilities in Germany. It is one of several HCI-related research activities that are coordinated by the German federal department of education and research [10].…”

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A multimodal presentation planner for a home entertainment environment

Elting

Michelitsch²

2001

Proceedings of the 2001 Workshop on Perceptive User Interfaces

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In this paper we outline the design and the implementation of the multimodal presentation planner PMO, which is part of the EMBASSI intelligent user interface for home entertainment devices. We provide details about the concepts we use to produce cohesive and coherent output as well as illustrate the software architecture of the PMO. We compare our approach with the state of the art in presentation planning and conclude with an illustration of our future work.

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EMBASSI multimodal assistance for infotainment and service infrastructures

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