Posts Tagged: mit

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Feb 08

Speaking to your calendar

”[We describe] a calendar management application to demonstrate our vision for intuitive interfaces that enable humans to communicate with their mobile phones via natural spoken dialogue. For this vision to be realized, many technology advances must be made: we must go beyond speech recognition/synthesis, and include language understanding/generation and dialogue modeling. Another factor critical to the success of the system is the use of contextual information, not only to solve the tasks presented to the system by the user, but also to enhance the system performance in the communication task.”

Link: Spoken Dialogue Interaction with Mobile Devices (mit.edu)

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Feb 07

MIT Mobile Experience Lab

MIT’s just established a research lab looking at mobile experience. They don’t have much to say yet on their site, but probably worth keeping an eye on.

“The MIT Mobile Experience Lab is a new established research lab within the MIT Design Laboratory. Our research focuses on radically reinvents and design the connections between people, ideas, physical places and information technologies in order to improve peoples’ life through meaningful experiences.”

Link: MIT – Mobile Experience Laboratory (mit.edu)

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20
Jan 06

The simplicity meme

Fast Company is surfing the increasingly crowded simplicity wave.

“In the past, he says, adding features usually meant adding costs. Put a sound system or power windows into a car, and you’ve upped the price, so you better make sure consumers really want what you’re peddling. But in the digital world, that cost-benefit calculus has gone awry. “The incremental cost to add 10 features instead of one feature is just nothing,” says Oppenheimer. “Technology is this huge blessing because we can do anything with it, and this huge curse because we can do anything with it.”

“But the issue is also our conflicted relationship with technology. We want the veneer of simplicity but with all the bells and whistles modern technology can provide. “The market for simplicity is complex,” says Dan Ariely, a business-school professor who is spending a year off from MIT figuring out how to quantify the value of simplicity at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. “If I offer you a VCR with only one button, it’s not all that exciting, even if when you use it, it’s likely to be easier.”

Link: The beauty of simplicity (fastcompany.com)