Conversational agent or direct manipulation in human-system interaction

Speech Communication

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 194-207

  Den Os, Els ^a   Boves, Lou ^b   Rossignol, Stéphane ^c   Ten Bosch, Louis ^b   Vuurpijl, Louis ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b Centre for Language and Speech Technology   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conversational agent; Direct manipulation; Multimodal interaction; Usability

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

CONVERSATIONAL AGENT (CA); DIRECT MANIPULATION; MULTIMODAL INTERACTION; USABILITY;

MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 24144499923     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.04.006     Document Type: Article

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