Natural and Intuitive Multimodal Dialogue for In-Car Applications:
The Sammie System
Proceedings of ECAI 2006, 17th European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, and Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems
(PAIS 2006), Riva del Garda, Italy, Seite 612-616. (2006)Zusammenfassung
We present SAMMIE, a laboratory demonstrator of an in-car showcase
of a multimodal dialogue system developed in the TALK project in
cooperation between DFKI/USAAR/BOSCH/BMW, to show natural, intuitive
mixed-initiative interaction, with particular emphasis on multimodal
turn-planning and natural language generation. SAMMIE currently supports
speech-centered multimodal access for the driver to a MP3-player
application including search and browsing, as well as composition
and modification of playlists. Our approach to dialogue modeling
is based on collaborative problem solving integrated with an extended
Information State Update paradigm. A formal usability evaluation
of a first baseline system of SAMMIE by naive users in a simulated
environment yielded positive results, and the improved final version
will be integrated in a BMW research car. TALK (Talk and Look: Tools
for Ambient Linguistic Knowledge) www.talk-project.org is funded
by the EU as project No. IST-507802 within the 6th Framework program.