The future of speech and audio in the interface

Abstract

Speech and audio are rapidly becoming integrated into our daily computing environments. While the traditional "terminal beep" still exists, it is being supplemented with a variety of other speech and non-speech sounds, as well as speech input to control applications and user interfaces. This workshop explored current and future applications, research areas, and interaction techniques that use audio in the user interface. The emphasis of the meeting was on a user interface, or "CHI perspective", of using speech and sound in interactive contexts where the audio channel can be exploited for the user's benefit.

A Social Agent, or a Medium?: The Impact of Anthropomorphism of Telepresence Robot's Sound Interface on Perceived Copresence, Telepresence and Social Presence

“…Speech sound interface is proved as being effective when conveying specified information and enhancing effectiveness of social communication [8]. Robot's anthropomorphic ability such as speech or gestures, can contribute to a person's increased perception of the robot's social capabilities and hence acceptance in social circle of the human [9].…”

Automatic Summarization

“…As mentioned in the Introduction, SCR systems have conventionally paid little attention to user requirements. The interface has been explicitly identified as an important SCR challenge in [11,203], and representation of spoken content is noted as an important open issue for SCR in [3]. This section overviews the key issues of interface design and discusses classic examples of how these issues have been addressed in research prototypes and real-world systems.…”

Auditory display design—An investigation of a design pattern approach

“…The design process is largely seen as a craft informed by experience (see chapter 3 or Lumsden and Brewster (2001) and Arons and Mynatt (1994)). This section aims to derive specific requirements from these observations to develop a methodological framework that improves the knowledge transfer in the domain of auditory display design.…”