Natural Language Interaction with the Web of Things

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INTERACTING WITH THE WEB OF THINGS: THE ROLE OF SPEECH AND NATURAL LANGUAGE Deborah A. Dahl Conversational Technologies SpeechTEK 2015 August 17-19 New York, NY This material is based on a presentation given at SpeechTEK 2015 organized by: Information Today, Inc. 143 Old Marlton Pike Medford NJ 08055 U.S.A. Phone 1 (609) 654-62661 (609) 654-6266. http://www.infotoday.com

Connected things will be everywhere • Everyday life – home appliances, entertainment, fitness • •

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monitor, toys, pets… Industry – office, building, industrial robot, parts for manufacturing… Public environments – retail store, city services, museums… Medicine – sensors, alarms… Transportation – car, highway, train, bus, airplane

Paradigms of Interaction: Three Categories • Between things • Interaction between individual things • Low level protocols • Between things and

experts • Infrastructure monitoring

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and control Energy Transportation Public safety Events Science Healthcare

People to thing Interaction People interacting with things in the environment The user interface becomes critical

Users need a uniform way to interact • Don’t burden the user with too many interfaces • No matter how well-designed a GUI interface is, it’s

different from other GUI’s • User has to learn it • Harder for users like older adults or people with cognitive disabilities • Hard in dynamic environments to learn everything

UI’s Have to Generalize over Form Factors • Things have many different shapes and sizes • UI options • physical remotes • wearable • ambient • mobile device • Natural language -- a uniform UI for connected things

with different form factors • Lets users express their intents naturally

Example: Light bulb • Philips Hue Light Bulb • LED light that can change

colors • Controlled through LAN via bridge • Bridge communicates to light bulbs via Zigbee protocol • Has own API for developers

Natural Language Control of Hue Light

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