Paper Info
Title
Tamil market: a spoken dialog system for rural India
Abstract
In this paper, we describe the design process, results, and observations from a pilot user study for Tamil Market, a speech-driven agricultural query system, conducted in community centers in rural India. The primary users were rural villagers of varying degrees of literacy from three districts of Tamil Nadu. Preliminary findings from a Wizard-of-Oz field study show that rural villagers are able to navigate through a dialog system using their voice, regardless of literacy level and previous experience with technology. Traditional user study techniques, however, favor literate users and are ill-suited to research in developing regions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1125451.1125746
CHI Extended Abstracts
Keywords
Field
DocType
tamil market,tamil nadu,dialog system,favor literate user,rural villager,wizard-of-oz field study show,rural india,traditional user study technique,literacy level,pilot user study,speech,it,field study,user interface,design process,literacy
Literacy,Tamil,Rural india,Spoken dialog,Computer science,Engineering design process,Dialog system,Developing regions,User interface,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-298-4
26
3.58
References 
Authors
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Madelaine Plauché119519.82
Madhu Prabaker241134.34