CHI 99 Workshop 13

Designing the User Interface for Pen and Speech Applications

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MONDAY
David Ferro, Unisys Natural Language Understanding, USA
James A. Larson, Intel Architecture Labs, USA
Sharon Oviatt, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology, USA

This workshop will bring together a small group of researchers and practitioners to discuss how to design applications with both a verbal user interface (the user hears and speaks to the application) and a visual user interface (the user draws/writes and sees the application). Our goals are to better understand the issues that face designers of multimedia interfaces supporting both visual and verbal interaction styles; to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information; and to increase communication among the extremely diverse groups involved in designing multimedia interfaces.

To be selected as a participant in this workshop, e-mail a 3-page paper to the organizers that describes: (a) an existing or proposed multimedia application that integrates visual and verbal interaction styles, and (b) brief position statements relevant to the following workshop topics:

1. Identify situations in which combined visual and verbal interaction is particularly useful, or in which switching between them is desirable
2. Identify principles and/or methodologies for designing visual/verbal human-computer interfaces
3. Recommend topics on which additional research is needed before effective visual/verbal multimedia interfaces can be designed.