Enabling a voice modality in mobile games through VoiceXML

Zyda, Michael; Thukral, Dhruv; Ferrans, James C.; Engelsma, Jonathan; Hans, Mat

doi:10.1145/1401843.1401870

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“…A game that uses speech recognition to interpret the actions that a player issues through a verbal command is commonly known as a voice-command game [38]. Although we have not encountered such a game on the cellphone, they have been implemented on gaming devices such as the Nintendo DS and Playstation, and have appeared to be popular with players.…”

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Improving literacy in developing countries using speech recognition-supported games on mobile devices

Kumar

Reddy

Tewari

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Learning to read in a second language is challenging, but highly rewarding. For low-income children in developing countries, this task can be significantly more challenging because of lack of access to high-quality schooling, but can potentially improve economic prospects at the same time. A synthesis of research findings suggests that practicing recalling and vocalizing words for expressing an intended meaning could improve word reading skills -including reading in a second language -more than silent recognition of what the given words mean. Unfortunately, many language learning software do not support this instructional approach, owing to the technical challenges of incorporating speech recognition support to check that the learner is vocalizing the correct word. In this paper, we present results from a usability test and two subsequent experiments that explore the use of two speech recognitionenabled mobile games to help rural children in India read words with understanding. Through a working speech recognition prototype, we discuss two major contributions of this work: first, we give empirical evidence that shows the extent to which productive training (i.e. vocalizing words) is superior to receptive vocabulary training, and discuss the use of scaffolding hints to "unpack" factors in the learner"s linguistic knowledge that may impact reading. Second, we discuss what our results suggest for future research in HCI.

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Section: Implications For Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving literacy in developing countries using speech recognition-supported games on mobile devices

Kumar

Reddy

Tewari

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…The rapid growth of computing technology enhances the use of software to support human activities in various fields such as education, health and entertainment. The rise of multimodal and multisensory interactions enabled by mobile devices, for instance accelerometer-based [1], camera-based [2], location-based [3], voice-based [4] and touch-based [5], leads to the development of a variety of specific applications.…”

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Design and Evaluation of an Augmented Reality App for Learning Geometric Shapes in 3D

Thamrongrat

Law

2019

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019

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Augmented Reality (AR) is increasingly used as an educational tool in a range of domains with the goal of enhancing students' performance as well as their learning experience, thanks to the interactivity and visual appeal of AR objects. While some attempts, albeit limited, have been undertaken to prove these beneficial effects in learning 3D geometry, the results remain inconclusive and there are some methodological issues such as under-evaluation of user experience. With the aim to enrich the applied body of knowledge on this specific topic, we developed an AR application that allows its users to learn about crosssectional shapes and variables in 3D geometry. We compared the AR-based approach with the traditional chalk-and-board approach by involving sixty 12-16 year-olds from two schools. The AR class showed a significantly stronger learning effect than the traditional class, especially for the more complex geometric concepts. The AR class found the application engaging, regardless of their level of knowledge gain, which bore no significant relation with their intention to use it. The methodological challenge for implementing control groups and the practical challenge for affordable emerging educational tools should be tackled in future research.

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“…As an example, smartphones provide a high degree of convergent features: multimedia capacities (producing and consuming audio, video), networking (local and global), and sensors (camera, accelerometers, GPS, etc). This opens up the possibility to create games as location based games [1], voice based games [2], accelerometer based games [3], camera based games [4] and touch based games [5]. In order to develop good mobile games, they must be designed to take advantages of such unique characteristics into gameplay [6].…”

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A Distributed Architecture for Mobile Digital Games Based on Cloud Computing

Zamith

Joselli

Clua

et al. 2011

2011 Brazilian Symposium on Games and Digital Entertainment

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Several fields in Computer Science use distributed computing to solve many intensive computational problems. Digital games use this approach mainly in multiplayer games, where a mainframe or cluster processes the majority of game logic. Single player games can also use distribute computing to process game logic and visualization algorithms, usually the tasks where digital games spend most of the processing time. By applying an approach based on distributed computing, games would have softer requirements regarding hardware, since the network cluster would be responsible for processing parts of game loop tasks. With the concept of cloud computing, games could rely on other computers to aid in processing their tasks. This work presents game-loop architecture for single-player or multiplayer games, using automatic load balancing and distributing game logic computation among several computers.

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Enabling a voice modality in mobile games through VoiceXML

Cited by 5 publications

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Improving literacy in developing countries using speech recognition-supported games on mobile devices

Improving literacy in developing countries using speech recognition-supported games on mobile devices

Design and Evaluation of an Augmented Reality App for Learning Geometric Shapes in 3D

A Distributed Architecture for Mobile Digital Games Based on Cloud Computing

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