| Humans, Computers and Wizards: Human (Simulated) Computer Interaction Contributor(s): Fraser, Norman (Author), Gilbert, Nigel (Author), McGlashan, Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415069483 ISBN-13: 9780415069489 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $237.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1997 Annotation: Computers are increasingly able to mimic abilities we often think of as exclusively human. "Humans, Computers and Wizards" considers current perspectives on human-computer interaction and argues for the value of an approach taken from sociology which is based on conversation analysis. Using data taken from a major, European Union funded project on speech understanding, the SunDial project, this book shows how this data may be analyzed to yield important conclusions about the organisation of both human-human and human-computer information dialogues. It describes the Wizard-of-Oz method of collecting speech dialogues from people who believe they are interacting with a speech understanding system before that system has been fully designed or built and it shows how the resulting dialogues may be analyzed to guide further design. This book provides detailed and comparative empirical studies of human and human-computer speech dialogues. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Computers | Interactive & Multimedia - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 005.3 |
| LCCN: 98107785 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.07 lbs) 218 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Using data taken from a major European Union funded project on speech understanding, the SunDial project, this book considers current perspectives on human computer interaction and argues for the value of an approach taken from sociology which is based on conversation analysis. |