MAS 964

Fall 2004

Chris Schmandt
E15-368a
617-253-5156
geek at media.mit.edu

Note: get missing handouts from Tracy Daniels in E15-368

8 Sept 2004

handouts:
  1. Problem set 1, due 15 Sept.
  2. Chapanis A; Interactive Human Communication

reading assignment for 15 Sept.:
  • Chapanis handout
  • Chalfonte BL, Fish RS, Kraut RE; Expressive Richness: A Comparison Of Speech and Text As Media For Revision

  • Isaacs EA, Tang JC; What Video Can and Cannot Do For Collaboration: A Case Study

  • Schmandt C; Voice Communication With Computers - Chapters 1 and 2 (For a copy of the book talk to Chris)

    • 15 Sept 2004

    look at these:
  • wide band spectrogram
  • narrow band spectrogram


    • handouts:
    1. Problem set 2, due 22 Sept.
    2. Quilayutte alphabet
    reading assignment for 22 Sept.:
  • Arons, B. Techniques, Peception and Applications of Time-Compressed Speech , Proceedings, 1992 Avios Conference

  • Arons, B. SpeechSkimmer: A System for Interactively Skimming Recorded Speeech, ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, March 1997

  • Roy, D. and Schmandt, C. NewsComm: a hand-held interface for interactive acces to structured audio proceedings, CHI 1996

  • Schmandt C; Voice Communication With Computers - Chapter 3

    • 22 Sept 2004

    handouts:
    reading assignment for 29 Sept.:
  • Arons, B. A review of the cocktail party effect, Journal of the American Voice I/O Society, July 1992

  • Mullins, M. and Schmandt, C. AudioStreamer: exploring simultaneity for listening, CHI 1995

  • Kobayashi, M, and Schmandt C. Dynamic Soundscape: mapping time to space for audio browsing. CHI 1997

  • Schmandt, C. Audio Hallway: a virtual acoustic environment for browsing, UIST 1998

  • Schmandt C; Voice Communication With Computers - Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. Pay particular attention to LPC coding in chapter 3

    • 29 Sept 2004

    handouts: Problem set 3, due 5 Oct
    reading assignment for 29 Sept.:
  • Pisoni D.B., Nusbaum H.C. & Greene B.G. (1985). Perception of synthetic speech generated by rule. Proceedings of the 1EEE 73:1665-1676

  • J. Lai, D. Wood, and M. Considine, The effect of task conditions on the comprehensibility of synthetic speech. CHI 2000

  • L. Gong and J. Lai Shall we mix synthetic speech and human speech?: impact on users' performance, perception, and attitude. CHI 2001

  • J. Lai, K. Cheng, P. Green and O. Tshimhoni, On the road and on the Web?: comprehension of synthetic and human speech while driving. CHI 2001

  • Schmandt C; Voice Communication With Computers - Chapter 5

    • 5 Oct 2004

    handouts: Problem set 4, due 12 Oct
    reading assignment for 12 Oct.:
  • M. Marx and C. Schmandt, MailCall: message presentation and navigation in a nonvisual environment. CSCW 1996

  • J. Davis and C. Schmandt, The Back Seat Driver: Real Time Spoken Driving Directions. IEEE VNIS 1989

    • 12 Oct 2004

    handouts: Problem set 5, due 19 Oct
    reading assignment for 19 Oct.:
  • Schmandt C; Voice Communication With Computers - Chapter 6

    • 24 Nov 2004

    reading assignment for 4 Dec - context awareness and interruption:
  • E. Horvitz et al., BusyBody: creating and fielding personalized models of the cost of interruption. CSCW 2004

  • Examining the robustness of sensor-based statistical models of human interruptibility, CHI 2004

  • L. Nelson et al., Quiet calls: talking silently on mobile phones. CHI 2001

  • R. Hansson and P. Ljungstrand, The reminder bracelet: subtle notification cues for mobile devices. CHI 2000 short papers

    • 1 Dec 2004

    reading assignment for 8 Dec - alternate input modalities:
  • Writing with a joystick: a comparison of date stamp, selection keyboard, and EdgeWrite, Wobbrock, Myers, and Aung Graphics Interace 2004


  • TiltType: accelerometer-supported text entry for very small devices, Partridge, et al., UIST 2002


  • TiltText: using tilt for text input to mobile phones, Wigdor and Blakrishnan, CHI 2003


  • Blasko and Feiner, "An Interaction System for Watch Computers Using Tactile Guildance and Bidirectional Segmented Strokes" ISWC 2004