Being old doesn't mean acting old: How older users interact with spoken dialog systems

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Wolters, Maria ^a   Georgila, Kallirroi ^a   Moore, Johanna D ^a   Macpherson, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Clustering; Cognitive aging; Spoken dialog systems; Voice interfaces

Indexed keywords

AGING; CLUSTERING; COGNITIVE AGING; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS; VOICE INTERFACES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 78649951322     PISSN: 19367228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1525840.1525842     Document Type: Article

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