Mixed-Initiative Dialog Management for Speech-based Interaction with Graphical User Interfaces

Mixed-Initiative Dialog Management for Speech-based Interaction with Graphical User Interfaces [1]

Synopsis

This paper is about using speech based computer interaction for people with disabilities that would make them not capable to use the user interface. It talks about how conversation-and-control allows for shorter task completion times than conventional command-and-control approaches.

Strengths

1) That a system like this is able to broaden the users for computers to a much bigger group of people

2) That they were able to show that the conversation-and-control approach was better by reducing the amount of time that it took to be able to complete a task

3) I did like how they showed multiple ways of being able to do this such as Command-and-control and conversation-and-control

Weaknesses

1) That there is a lot of errors that are caused by misspoken commands, or commands that the computer was not able to translate causing people to repeat what they have said.

2) The interface is still using one that would normally be used by a mouse and keyboard.

3) This is a good technology, but what I see what would be hard to implement would be features such as scrolling speeds because not everything gets scrolled at the same rate. I think things like that would be hard to implement for all types of users.