Language technologies and HCI

Cécile Paris, CSIRO

ABSTRACT:

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is concerned with studying how to best design technology so as to ensure that it will fit naturally into the users' environment and be appropriate for the task at hand, and that the interaction between humans and the machine will be smooth. Language is now often employed as a means of interaction. It is thus important to understand some of the principles and methodologies employed in HCI to help design systems. In this lecture, we will look at some of the techniques employed in HCI, such as task analysis and task centred design. We will also discuss the potential for cross-fertilization between the two disciplines (HCI and Natural Language Processing).

BIO :

Cécile Paris is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO/ICT Centre, leading the area of research concerned with Delivering Information in Context. She is also an Honorary Associate in the Language Technology Centre at Macquarie University (Division of Information and Communication Sciences), and at the School of Information Technologies at Sydney University. Her main research interests lie in the areas of Language Technology, User Modelling and HCI. Cécile did her PhD in Computational Linguistics at Columbia University (New York). She worked 7 years at USC/ISI (Marina del Rey, Los Angeles) after her PhD, leading a research programme in text planning and generation. Before coming to Australia, she was at ITRI (Brighton, UK), leading work on multilingual generation systems. Cécile is currently the chair of CHISIG, the Computer Human Interaction Special Interest Group of the Ergonomics Society of Australia. [http://www.cmis.csiro.au/Cecile.Paris/]

RESOURCES:

• Index
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements