All areas that enable, optimise or enhance Speech in mobile and pervasive environments and devices. Possible areas include, but are not restricted to:
Speech Interfaces/Applications for Developing Regions
Spoken User Interaction in Cars
Multilingual Speech Recognition
Robust Speech Recognition in Noisy and Resource-Constrained Environments
Memory/Energy Efficient Algorithms
Multimodal User Interfaces for Mobile Devices
Models of discourse and dialogue in mobile settings
Dialogue management for mobile devices
Protocols and Standards for Speech Applications
Distributed Speech Processing
Mobile Application Adaptation and Learning
Prototypical System Architectures
Design and Usability Testing of Mobile Interfaces
User Modeling
Submissions
We seek original, unpublished papers in the following three categories: (a) Position papers that describe novel ideas that can lead to interesting research directions, (b) Early results or work-in-progress that has significant promise, or, (c) Full papers. Papers should be of 4-8 pages in length in the MobileHCI publication format. The LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates are available at the ACM Template site. All submissions should be in the PDF format and should be submitted electronically through the workshop submission web site, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=simpe09.
We also welcome participation without paper submission.
Note: Since the workshop also aims to be a meeting point for researchers working in this area, at least one author of accepted papers has to attend the workshop to present their work, else the paper will not be included in the final workshop proceedings. Participants who wish to attend the workshop will have to register for the main conference as well.
For any comments regarding submissions and participation, contact:
namit AT in DOT ibm DOT com, rnitendra AT in DOT ibm DOT com, andrew.kun AT unh DOT com.
Seed Questions
Speech Recognition
How do we improve speech recognition in noisy environments ?
How do we construct speech systems with small footprints
of memory and power consumption ?
Interaction
How do we perform dialogue management when devices are multi-modal or users are multi-tasking ?
How do we users converse with each other through mobile devices, and to mobile devices ?
What is the right design methodology for developing speech applications ?
What are the usability issues with speech on mobile devices ?
Are there any cultural differences in the way different societies use speech
on mobile devices ?
Intelligence
How can we make voice UIs flexible and adaptive ?
How do we make such devices adapt automatically to
the user, task and environment ?
How can we leverage context (such as location) to
make more intelligent UIs that reduce the cognitive
burden of semi-literate/illiterate users ?
Are there any novel and easier ways to handle multiple
languages and dialects ?
How do we construct speech systems with small footprints
of memory and power consumption ?
How can we distribute processing more efficiently given
the increased available computing power on handhelds ?
How do we trade this off with a remote server to
conserve energy ?
What are the right learning models for such settings ?
Applications and Architectures
What novel applications and services can be deployed
on such devices ?
What does the architecture of future systems looks like ?
What kind of components and frameworks should be
built to enable rapid application creation ?
