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Autonomous systems are developed for both civilian and military applications. To investigate the use of semi-autonomous ground and air units in mechanized combat and control by voice commands, a case study with two participants was performed. The ...

For people who are blind or visually impaired, it is complicated to attend an in-person professional event, such as workshops or conferences, and initiate conversations with other attendees. This paper proposes TalkConnect, a novel mobile application ...

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, providing a practical voice-user interface for widely deployed smart devices. With the ever-growing deployment of such an interface, several voice-based ...

Stroke and other neurological disorders have an effect on mobility, which has a significant impact on independence and quality of life. The core rehabilitation requirements for patients with lower limb motor ...

Smart home appliances and smart homes, in general, are on the verge of ubiquity. Research and industry proposed a range of modalities, including speech, mid-air gestures, and touch displays, to control smart homes. While previous work designed for the ...

Livestreaming and video calls have grown in popularity due to the increased connectivity and advancements in mobile devices. Our interactions with these cameras are limited as the cameras are either fixed or manually remote controlled. Here we present a ...

The predominance of exclusively manual interaction required when interacting with a browser and websites is presented as a restrictive condition. This limitation was the starting point and the main motivation for the development of a web navigation ...

We conducted an in situ study of six households in domestic and driving situations in order to better understand how voice assistants (VA) are used and evaluate the efficiency of vocal interactions in natural contexts. The filmed observations and ...

Voice control is an increasingly common feature of digital games, but the experience of playing with voice control is often hampered by feelings of embarrassment and dissonance. Past research has recognised these tensions, but has not offered a general ...

One of the core features of the real-time strategy game genre is an omnipresent view coupled with a fog of war limiting your vision to where your units are. But what would an RTS game without an omnipresent view look like? Radio General is a real-time ...

Voice interaction is increasingly common in digital games, but it remains a notoriously difficult modality to design a satisfying experience for. This is partly due to limitations of speech recognition technology, and partly due to the inherent ...

Using Personal Assistants (PAs) for tasks in our everyday life is quite common these days. The PAs (Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa, Google Now, Microsoft Cortana etc.) help us to set reminders, find our way through traffic, or send messages to friends and ...

Many web applications and software engineering tools such as test generators are not accessible for users who do not use traditional input devices such as mouse and keyboard. To address this shortcoming of current applications, this work leverages recent ...

Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are growing in popularity. However, even the most current VUIs regularly cause frustration for their users. Very few studies exist on what people do to overcome VUI problems they encounter, or how VUIs can be designed to aid ...

In this paper, we describe a system architecture that enables an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to be controlled intuitively using simple voice commands. The system has been implemented using the Nuance speech recognition platform along with the DJI ...

This paper describes the first version of Oregano, a system that allows people to interact with a large concert organ using their voices and a touch display. The main objective of the design was to increase the organ's accessibility for the general ...

In this paper, we present the design, implementation and evaluation of a simple and user-friendly interface for a home automation system. Our approach is based on speech; given that this allows a more natural way of interacting with the system. The use ...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the results of research aimed at the development of a web-based manufacturing system. A novel concept of remote programming and control of a flexible manufacturing cell has been developed. Its important feature ...

This case study represents our efforts to investigate the uses of voice control versus gestural control in the OR. We present a system we expressly built to allow for both gestural or voice control at the choice of the surgeon. We explain our deployment ...

In this extended abstract, we present PowerFall, a 2D arcade-style voice-controlled two-player collaborative game. In the game, two players control two cartoon characters tied back-to-back under a falling parachute. The players shout into smartphone ...