Natural versus Standardized Approaches to Spoken System Design

ISBN-13: 9783639168778 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 204 str.

Ellen Campana

Opis

This book makes theoretical, methodological, andempirical contributions to the design of effective and usablespoken interfaces. Specifically it investigates designimplications of two general approaches to system design - the naturalapproach and the standardized approach - as they relate to generationof referring expressions. Both discourse reference and thegeneration of scalar adjectives are explored. The method of thisexploration is adapted from cognitive psychology, and it is called thedual-task paradigm. Participants follow instructions generated by eithera natural or a standardized system, while doing another simple taskat the same time. Performance on both tasks, across participants,is used to compare the cognitive load of the two systems. Boththe method and the findings will be of interest to spoken systemdevelopers and researchers. The book also provides new findingsabout the obligatoriness (and lack thereof) of pragmaticinference in human language comprehension, which will be of interest to psycholinguists, cognitive psychologists, andcognitive scientists.

O autorze

Ellen Campana bridges the fields of human-computer interaction
and cognitive
psychology, specifically dialogue systems and psycholinguistics.
She holds a Joint
Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science from
the University of
Rochester and is currently an Assistant Professor at Arizona
State University.