Fifth International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC) (ICDCSW'05)
An Information Retrieval System for Supporting Casual Conversation in Wearable Computing Environments
Columbus, Ohio, USA
June 06-June 10
ISBN: 0-7695-2328-5
In the future, wearable computers are going to be exploited for different applications to support human life. In this paper, we present a new wearable computing system that supports daily conversation based on speech recognition and information retrieval technologies. In daily conversation, sometimes we do not know the meaning of a new word or we want to know more information about a topic. In such cases, we can get more information to make our conversation more interesting and fluent by receiving auxiliary information from a wearable computer. The proposed system analyzes conversation content and retrieves information related to ongoing conversations from the Internet to make them more interesting and beneficial. We have implemented a prototype system, and the results of actual use have shown the need for such a system.
Citation:
Nga Viet Pham, Tsutomu Terada, Masahiko Tsukamoto, Shojiro Nishio, "An Information Retrieval System for Supporting Casual Conversation in Wearable Computing Environments," icdcsw, vol. 5, pp.477-483, Fifth International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC) (ICDCSW'05), 2005