Speech and natural language remain our
most natural form of interaction; yet the HCI community have been very
timid about focusing their attention on designing and developing spoken
language interaction techniques. This may be due to a widespread
perception that perfect domain-independent speech recognition is an
unattainable goal. Progress is continuously being made in the
engineering and science of speech and natural language processing,
however, and there is also recent research that suggests that many
applications of speech require far less than 100% accuracy to be useful
in many contexts. Engaging the CHI community now is timely -- many
recent commercial applications, especially in the mobile space, are
already tapping the increased interest in and need for natural user
interfaces (NUIs) by enabling speech interaction in their products. As
such, the goal of this panel is to bring together interaction designers,
usability researchers, and general HCI practitioners to discuss the
opportunities and directions to take in designing more natural
interactions based on spoken language, and to look at how we can
leverage recent advances in speech processing in order to gain
widespread acceptance of speech and natural language interaction.
CHI EA '13 CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI EA '13 CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
