TY - GEN
T1 - Finding information and finding locations in a multimodal interface
T2 - 2nd IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2007
AU - Kim, Loel
AU - McCauley, Thomas L.
AU - Polkosky, Melanie
AU - D'Mello, Sidney
AU - Craig, Sarah
AU - Nikiforova, Bistra
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Increasingly, technology developers are turning to interactive, intelligent kiosks to provide routine communicative functions such as greeting and informing people as they enter public, corporate, retail, or healthcare spaces. A number of studies have found intelligent kiosks to be usable with study participants reporting them to be appealing, useful, and even entertaining. However, the field still lacks insight into the ways in which people use multimodal interfaces to seek information and accomplish tasks. The Memphis Intelligent Kiosk Initiative project, or MIKI, was designed for multimodal use and although in usability testing it exemplified good interface design in a number of areas, the complexity of multiple modalities - including animated graphics, speech technology and an avatar greeter - complicated usability testing, leaving developers seeking improved instruments. In particular, factors such as gender and technical background of the user seemed to change the way that various kiosk tasks were perceived, deficiencies were observed in speech interaction as well as the location information in a 3D animated map.
AB - Increasingly, technology developers are turning to interactive, intelligent kiosks to provide routine communicative functions such as greeting and informing people as they enter public, corporate, retail, or healthcare spaces. A number of studies have found intelligent kiosks to be usable with study participants reporting them to be appealing, useful, and even entertaining. However, the field still lacks insight into the ways in which people use multimodal interfaces to seek information and accomplish tasks. The Memphis Intelligent Kiosk Initiative project, or MIKI, was designed for multimodal use and although in usability testing it exemplified good interface design in a number of areas, the complexity of multiple modalities - including animated graphics, speech technology and an avatar greeter - complicated usability testing, leaving developers seeking improved instruments. In particular, factors such as gender and technical background of the user seemed to change the way that various kiosk tasks were perceived, deficiencies were observed in speech interaction as well as the location information in a 3D animated map.
KW - Intelligent kiosk
KW - Multimodality
KW - Usability evaluation instrument
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:54949118341
SN - 9780889866546
T3 - Proceedings of the 2nd IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2007
SP - 111
EP - 117
BT - Proceedings of the 2nd IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2007
Y2 - 14 March 2007 through 16 March 2007
ER -