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Speaking to your calendar

”[We describe] a calendar management application to demonstrate our vision for intuitive interfaces that enable humans to communicate with their mobile phones via natural spoken dialogue. For this vision to be realized, many technology advances must be made: we must go beyond speech recognition/synthesis, and include language understanding/generation and dialogue modeling. Another factor critical to [...]

Posted 05 February 2008 § mobile ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

MIT Mobile Experience Lab

MIT’s just established a research lab looking at mobile experience. They don’t have much to say yet on their site, but probably worth keeping an eye on.
“The MIT Mobile Experience Lab is a new established research lab within the MIT Design Laboratory. Our research focuses on radically reinvents and design the connections between people, ideas, [...]

Posted 11 February 2007 § mobile ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

The simplicity meme

Fast Company is surfing the increasingly crowded simplicity wave.
“In the past, he says, adding features usually meant adding costs. Put a sound system or power windows into a car, and you’ve upped the price, so you better make sure consumers really want what you’re peddling. But in the digital world, that cost-benefit calculus has gone [...]

Posted 20 January 2006 § uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,