Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> User Interfaces

As computer technology develops, spoken dialogue is becoming ever-more important when interacting with a wide variety of technological devices, including Personal Digital Assistants, tablet PCs, and mobile phones. Using speech leads to more natural and user-friendly interfaces. More specifically, the authors of this volume contend that the experience of talking to our computerized gadgets may be greatly improved by dynamically adapting the system's dialogue interaction style to the user s profile and emotional status. In this book, a novel approach that combines speech-based emotion...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the third IFIP TC 10 International Embedded Systems Symposium, IESS 2009, held in Langenargen, Germany, in September 2009.

The 28 revised papers were selected from 46 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on modelling; transaction level modelling; scheduling and real-time systems; simulation, verification and test; platforms and processors; automotive systems; andwireless sensor networks. The volumealso includes three case studies and two tutorials."

Information and communication technologies can provide new paradigms in healthcare provision. In particular, new Pervasive Healthcare technologies can revolutionise the dynamics of healthcare, enabling people to remain at home for longer, at lower costs to health and welfare organisations.

This book reveals how pervasive healthcare technologies can be designed in conjunction with users and carers, as well as exploring the application of novel methods and technologies.

Modern communication devices, such as mobile phones, teleconferencing systems, VoIP, etc., are often used in noisy and reverberant environments. Therefore, signals picked up by the microphones from telecommunication devices contain not only the desired near-end speech signal, but also interferences such as the background noise, far-end echoes produced by the loudspeaker, and reverberations of the desired source. These interferences degrade the fidelity and intelligibility of the near-end speech in human-to-human telecommunications and decrease the performance of human-to-machine interfaces...