CHIC: The Computer Human Interaction Crew at SRI International

Dr Luc Julia,  Luc.Julia@sri.com
SRI International, California, USA
Note special date and time, Tuesday 2 March 1999 at 1pm

Abstract

Over the past five years, a team at SRI International has focused on new kinds of interaction between humans and computers, applying talking, writing and drawing to extend more standard input devices such as mice and keyboards.

SRI International (Stanford Research Institute) is the place where the computer mouse and Internet were first created. Despite this history, we wanted to change the way people interact with computers and networked services. Using a new distributed application framework called the Open Agent Architecture (OAA), we created prototypes and conducted studies in order to evaluate and validate our research. As we will describe, the OAA is well suited to rapid prototyping of complex systems that combine heterogeneous information sources. Intelligent interfaces to the dynamic community of services allow the combination of several modalities in a synergistic fashion, thus empowering the user.

During this talk, we'll present as many demonstrations as possible to show how different technologies were integrated and became accessible to the end user through easy and natural user interfaces.

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Luc JULIA is a research engineer in the Speech Technologyand Research Laboratory at SRI International. He received his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France, in 1989 and 1990. He received his Ph.D. from l'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecomunications de Paris in 1995. The Ph.D. dissertation gave pattern recognition methods and solutions to build real multimodal interfaces integrating speech, gestures and handwriting. His current research interests include multimodal interaction, speech enabled web applications and distributed agents architectures.

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