Keterbukaan Informasi PubliK - Center (KIP-Center) User Requirement

Speech-based and multimodal media center for different user groups

We present a multimodal media center interface based on speech input, gestures, and haptic feedback. For special user groups, including visually and physically impaired users, the application features a zoomable context + focus GUI in tight combination with speech output and full speech-based control. These features have been developed in cooperation with representatives of the user groups. Eva...

Putting the User in the Center of Music Information Retrieval

Personalized and context-aware music retrieval and recommendation algorithms ideally provide music that perfectly fits the individual listener in each imaginable situation and for each of her information or entertainment need. Although first steps towards such systems have recently been presented at ISMIR and similar venues, this vision is still far away from being a reality. In this paper, we ...

Adaptive data center activation with user request prediction

The problem of energy saving in data centers has recently attracted significant interest within the research community, and the adaptive data center activation model has emerged as a promising technique to save energy. However, this model has not integrated adaptive activation of switches and hosts in data centers because of its complexity. This paper proposes an adaptive data center activation...

Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC) User Interface Technology, Code 441

NOSC has identified the Battle Group Tactical Trainer (BGTT) as an appropriate candidate for the integration of speech recognition in the navy. Current plans are to record speech samples and create transcriptions from the BGTT exercises at NOSC and the Naval Post-Graduate School. We will then evaluate the recordings to determine appropriate tasks for speech recognition, and create a language mo...

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