TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhancing accessibility through speech technologies on AAL telemedicine services for iTV
AU - Delgado, Héctor
AU - Rodriguez-Alsina, Aitor
AU - Gurguí, Antoni
AU - Martí, Enric
AU - Serrano, Javier
AU - Carrabina, Jordi
PY - 2011/11/28
Y1 - 2011/11/28
N2 - Ambient Assisted Living Technologies are providing sustainable and affordable solutions for the independent living of senior citizens. In this scenario, telemedicine systems enhance distance patient's health care through interactive audiovisual media at home. Today TV is becoming the main connected device at home. However, Interactive TV applications must be fully adapted, particularly to the available input device: the Remote Control (RC). Despite this adaptation, some tasks are still uncomfortable due to the RC limitations. Therefore, more user-friendly input modalities are strongly desired. Spoken language allows distance hands- and eyes-free operation within the room, providing an intuitive and natural interface. This paper presents some accessibility facilities based on speech technologies for an interactive TV telemedicine service. The specific layout for TV environments, the help of an avatar and the voice navigation will enhance the user access, while the speech-based creation of medical reports reduces dramatically the time physicians need to write reports.
AB - Ambient Assisted Living Technologies are providing sustainable and affordable solutions for the independent living of senior citizens. In this scenario, telemedicine systems enhance distance patient's health care through interactive audiovisual media at home. Today TV is becoming the main connected device at home. However, Interactive TV applications must be fully adapted, particularly to the available input device: the Remote Control (RC). Despite this adaptation, some tasks are still uncomfortable due to the RC limitations. Therefore, more user-friendly input modalities are strongly desired. Spoken language allows distance hands- and eyes-free operation within the room, providing an intuitive and natural interface. This paper presents some accessibility facilities based on speech technologies for an interactive TV telemedicine service. The specific layout for TV environments, the help of an avatar and the voice navigation will enhance the user access, while the speech-based creation of medical reports reduces dramatically the time physicians need to write reports.
KW - accessibility
KW - avatar
KW - interactive TV
KW - multimodal interaction
KW - natural user interfaces
KW - speech technologies
KW - telemedicine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=81855227032&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-25167-2_41
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-25167-2_41
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:81855227032
SN - 0302-9743
SP - 300
EP - 308
JO - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
JF - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
ER -