Spoken Multimodal Human-Computer Dialogue in Mobile Environments

Contents and Contributors: PREFACE CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS INTRODUCTION Part I: Issues in Multimodal Spoken Dialogue Systems and Components ALEXANDER I . RUDNICKY / Multimodal Dialogue Systems SADAOKI FURUI / Speech Recognition Technology in Multimodal/Ubiquitous Computing Environments SATOSHI TAMURA, KOJI IWANO, SADAOKI FURUI / A Robust Multimodal Speech Recognition Method using Optical Flow Analysis KLAUS MACHEREY, HERMANN NEY / Feature Functions fro Tree-Based Dialogue Course Management DIRK BUEHLER, WOLFGANG MINKER / A Reasoning Component for Information-Seeking and Planning Dialogues JONAS BESKOW, JENS EDLUND, MAGNUS NORDSTRAND / A Model for Multimodal Dialogue System Output Applied to an Animated Talking Head Part II: System Architecture and Example Implementations ANDREAS KELLNER / Overview of System Architecture KOUICHI KATSURADA, HIROBUMI YAMADA, YUSAKU NAKAMURA, SATOSHI KOBAYASHI, TSUNEO NITTA / XISL: A Modality-Independent MMI Description Language GEORG NIKLFELD, MICHAEL PUCHER, ROBERT FINAN, WOLFGANG ECKHART / A Path to Multimodal Data Services for Telecommunications ROBERTO PIERACCINI, BOB CARPENTER, ERIC WOUDENBERG, SASHA CASKEY, STEPHEN SPRINGER, JONATHAN BLOOM, MICHAEL PHILIPS / Multimodal Spoken Dialogue with Wireless Devices DIRK BUEHLER, WOLFGANG MINKER / The SmartKom Mobile Car Prototype System for Flexible Human-Machine Communication DAN BOHUS, ALEXANDER I. RUDNICKY / LARRI: A Language-Based Maintenance and Repair Assistant Part III: Evaluation and Usability LAILA DYBKJAER, NIELS OLE BERNSEN, WOLFGANG MINKER / Overview of Evaluation and Usability STEVE WITHAKER, MARILYN WALKER / Evaluating Dialogue Strategies in Multimodal Dialogue Systems NIELS OLE BERNSEN, LAILA DYBKJAER / Enhancing the Usability of Multimodal VirtualCo-drivers WOLFGANG MINKER, UDO HAIBER, PAUL HEISTERKAMP, SVEN SCHEIBLE / Design, Implementation and Evaluation of the SENECA Spoken Language Dialogue System SABINE GELDOF, ROBERT DALE / Segmenting Route Descriptions for Mobile Devices JANIENKE STURM, BERT CRANEN, JACQUES TERKEN, ILSE BAKX / Effects of Prolonged Use on the Usability of a Mutimodal Form-Filling Interface ANTHONY JAMESON, KERSTIN KLOECKNER / User Multitasking with Mobile Multimodal Systems SHARON OVIATT, COURTNEY DARVES, RACHEL COULSTON, MATT WESSON / Speech Convergence with Animated Personas INDEX