Philips Research - Technologies
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Building new technologies around the user, is the key consideration of our research into new interaction technologies.To ensure that people benefit from features that may - at first - seem complicated, such as voice control, speaker identification, query-by-humming, hand-writing recognition, automatic collaborative filtering, speech synthesis and non-speech audio, we have developed this prototype in a dialogue with users by constantly checking to see how satisfied (s)he was with our earlier models, and turning the feedback into improvements. The result: an Internet-connected audio jukebox that recognizes its user, interprets tunes which the user hums and then plays the song after finding it as digital audio content on a local CD or hard disk or on the Web. The Easy Access project aims at developing user interface concepts for supporting users in accessing large databases of content. These databases could contain audio, video or other multimedia content. The user interface concepts are implemented and evaluated in terms of their cognitive ergonomic properties. The User Centered Design approach forms the basis for our research. Through an iterative process of conceptualization, prototyping and evaluating, we develop proof of concepts for interaction styles, implementing innovative interaction technologies.
Phases of the User Centered Design cycle: For more information, please contact Boris de Ruyter |
As
a carrier for our research, we have developed a multimodal audio jukebox.
This system provides large local storage of digital audio content and
access to content stored on a network. Innovative interaction technologies,
such as query-by-humming and automatic collaborative filtering, are
applied. To read more about the concept development, prototype and evaluation,
click on the phases of the User Centered Design cycle.