Computational humor will be needed in interfaces, no less than other cognitive capabilities. There are many practical settings where computational humor will add value. Among them...
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...
This paper presents a novel way for assessing the affective qualities of natural language and a scenario for its use. Previous approaches to textual affect sensing have employed k...
One of the biggest unaddressed challenges for the digital economy is what to do when electronic transactions go wrong. Consumers are frustrated by interminable phone menus, and lo...
This paper describes an approach to digesting threads of archived discussion lists by clustering messages into approximate topical groups, and then extracting shorter overviews, a...
Model-based approaches can be useful when designing nomadic applications, which can be accessed through multiple interaction s. Various models and levels of abstraction can be con...
In this paper, we evaluate several means of presenting route instructions to a mobile user. Starting from an abstract languageindependent description of a route segment, we show h...
Christian Kray, Christian Elting, Katri Laakso, Vo...
We present a primarily speech-based user interface to a wide range of entertainment, navigation and communication applications for use in vehicles. The multimodal dialog enables t...
Wolfgang Minker, Udo Haiber, Paul Heisterkamp, Sve...
Interactive tools to help users author plans or processes are essential in a variety of domains. KANAL helps users author sound plans by simulating them, checking for a variety of...