This article outlines some of the characteristics of speech technology that distinguish it from traditional interaction techniques. A number of human factors issues relating to speech will be discussed in the context of a proposed research agenda for ...

US WEST Advanced Technologies conducted an experiment using the "Wizard-of-Oz" paradigm. We compared a simulated speech recognition interface ("wizard") for a basic voice mail application to functionally similar touch-tone and operator assisted ...

We have developed a multiple-switch-activated device with speech output for use by infants with severe speech and physical impairments. It is hoped that using this device for early intervention will provide these infants with a means of environmental ...

A prototype information retrieval system was developed that gives users fast and easy access to textual information. This system uses a statistical ranking methodology that allows a user to input a query using only natural language, such as a sentence ...

This paper identifies guidelines for designing human-computer interfaces using telephones as terminals. Although they are ubiquitous and convenient to use, phones differ from screen terminals in two important ways: the information display is auditory ...

Suchman (1987) has recently drawn attention to the situated nature of human social action and its implications for the design of interactive computer systems. In particular, she has highlighted the shortcomings of globally managing human computer ...

An experiment was conducted with people using gestures and speech to manipulate graphic images on a computer screen. A human was substituted for the recognition devices. The analysis showed that people strongly prefer to use both gestures and speech for ...

This paper describes a practical synthetic visual environment for use in CAD and teleoperation. Instead of using expensive head mounted display systems, we use a standard display and compute smooth shaded images using an AT&T Pixel Machine. The ...

The conceptual design of user interfaces focuses on the specification of the structure of the dialog, independent of any particular implementation approach. The intensifying discussion of conceptual dialog models is an inevitable result of the recent ...

I would like to review and extend the discussion of the layered structure model similar to the ISO Open Systems Interconnect model in the Report on the SIGCHI Workshop on Planning for User Interface Standards published in the October, 1985 SIGCHI ...

An animation system has been developed which generates animations from stories written in natural language. The system consists of three modules: story understanding module, stage directing module and action generating module.

The story understanding ...