The User-led Interactive Television Services (UITS) project addresses barriers to audience use of new media through empirical studies and distribution of study results within a knowledge transfer network.
Chinese users perceive ATMs as convenient and modern. However, our research highlighted a pattern of behavior that did not match our expected use of ATMs.
The challenge for sound designers of control programs is to enable carefree interaction so that the users do not need to worry about missing sound alarms.
Interview with three professionals who represent the range of educational backgrounds currently involved in speech technology design and are currently working in the speech industry.