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Conversational Gestures for Direct Manipulation on the Audio Desktop

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Conversational Gestures for Direct Manipulation on the Audio Desktop
We describe the speech-enabling approach to building auditory interfaces that treat speech as a first-class modality. The process of designing effective auditory interfaces is decomposed into identifying the atomic actions that make up the user interaction and the conversational gestures that enable these actions. The auditory interface is then synthesized by mapping these conversational gestures to appropriate primitives in the auditory environment. We illustrate this process with a concrete example by developing an auditory interface to the visually intensive task of playing tetris. Playing Tetris is a fun activity1 that has many of the same demands as day-to-day activities on the electronic desktop. Speech-enabling Tetris thus not only provides a fun way to exercise ones geometric reasoning abilities —it provides useful lessons in speech-enabling common-place computing tasks. 1 This paper was seriously delayed because the author was too busy playing the game. 0
T. V. Raman
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Type Conference
Year 1998
Where ASSETS
Authors T. V. Raman
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