The Ears Have It: A Task by Information Structure Taxonomy for Voice Access to Web Pages

: We present a taxonomy of task by information structure for voice interfaces to web pages in an analogous effort to Shneiderman’s taxonomy for information visualization. Our goal is to develop guidelines for the development of voice navigation of web spaces not as a replacement for visual web browsing, but instead to support focused information seeking tasks such as known-item search and directed browsing. We describe highlevel user tasks (Situate, Navigate, Query, and Details) and information structures (regions, menu/lists, text areas, repeated/structured information) that comprise the axes of our taxonomy and show how voice interfaces can support these tasks and structures.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: INTERACT
• Authors: Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Robert G. Capra, Zhiyan Shao
• Keywords: Information Seeking Tasks, Information Structures, INTERACT 2003, INTERACT 2007, Voice Interfaces