Nomadic Radio: Speech and Audio Interaction for Contextual Messaging in Nomadic Environments

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 353-383

  Sawhney, Nitin ^a   Schmandt, Chris ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive interfaces; contextual interfaces; Design; Human Factors; interruptions; nonspeech audio; notifications; passive awareness; spatial listening; Speech interaction; wearable computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349207836     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/355324.355327     Document Type: Article

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