Acoustic control of mouse pointer
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Vocal telekinesis: physical control of inanimate objects with minimal paralinguistic voice input
MULTIMEDIA '06 Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
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This paper investigates the factors that affect userst' preferences of non-speech sound input and determine their vocal and behavioral interaction patterns with a non-speech voice-controlled system. It throws light on shyness as a psychological determinant and on vocal endurance as a physiological factor. It hypothesizes that there are certain types of non-speech sounds, such as whistling, that shy users are more prone to resort to as an input. It also hypothesizes that there are some non-speech sounds which are more suitable for interactions that involve prolonged or continuous vocal control. To examine the validity of these hypotheses, it presents and employs a voice-controlled Christmas tree in a preliminary experimental approach to investigate the factors that may affect users' preferences and interaction patterns during nonspeech voice control, and by which the developer's choice of non-speech input to a voice-controlled system should be determined.