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Robustness in Speech Based Interfaces: Sharing the Tricks of the Trade
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Call for Participation Background Workshop Goals Workshop structure Participants Organisers Workshop proposal Workshop papers Preliminary schedule |
After each presentation, the group will react to the
technique and success/failure story presented. The commentators will give their
thoughts (only a couple of minutes long). Others will then share their
experience with the technique as well as their particular circumstances of the
usage. If none have previous experience with the technique, there will be a
discussion of the potential strengths of the proposal and its applicability to
a variety of circumstances. Interlacing each ten-minute presentation with
questions and group discussion will ensure that the format of the workshop will
remain interactive.
At the end of the formal
presentations, the organizers will facilitate a group discussion as to what the
common threads are in the techniques tried and how these relate to the
dimensions of the particular speech interface on which it was tried. We will
then summarize the group's proposed techniques. We will also allow time for a
general discussion of how to evaluate our output and how to continue the work
in a distributed fashion.
Afternoon: Facilitated discussion of common
threads in proposed techniques. Definition of dimensions for classes of speech-based
interfaces and applicability of the various techniques for each dimension.
Synthesis by group of findings into poster. Discussion of ways to publish the results from the workshop
We will set up a website for the workshop to facilitate
the distribution of the position papers as well as pre-workshop discussions and
interactions. Through these discussions we will select a small number of
commentators that will prepare comments or questions to the position papers.
Given that the workshop will
focus on topics that usually are difficult topics for traditional journal and
conference papers, selecting the contributions from the workshop for a journal
special issue might not be the best idea for distributing the lessons learned
to a wider audience. However, one of our goals is to summarize the workshop in
one or more papers related to the two central themes of the workshop. The exact
format for this will be discussed at the workshop, and possibly in
post-workshop email discussions. In addition to these publications, we will
prepare a report
for publication in the SIGCHI Bulletin.
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