The DFKI Evaluation Center for Language Technology

Current Work

Mobile Multimodal Systems

• Nature of the system:
  • Siemens S35i Mobile Phone
• Questions:
  • in general
    • What usability issues are raised by mobile systems?
    • What additional pieces of information are needed because of the mobility?
    • How can data be aquired in a mobile environment by the aid of a computer?
    • How can multimodal data be acquired and analysed?
    • Where does the user look at?
  • for the Siemens S35i Mobile Phone
    • How can the user learn that the first two actions can be performed in parallel?
      • Frequent practice?
      • Explicit thought?
    • How can the user learn what to look for?
    • How can the user learn that fully eye-based dialing is possible?
      • Assuming that everything proceeds smoothly?
      • Considering that unusual events may occur?
• Study performed with the ASL Model 501 mobile eye tracker
  • See the videos recorded during the study
• Publications on this subject: see Jameson (2002) and Jameson and Klöckner (2003)