1 Simulating Speech Interfaces by Constructing a GUI for a Light Control System

The purpose of my project is to build a graphical user interface to control a light system in a wizard of Oz study that will aid in the development of a new speech interface for the light control system in a lab. The speech interface will serve the role of a test application for conducting research in speech interfaces. The development of a speech interface system requires paying very close attention to the unique qualities of the interaction between humans and machines. Designing a speech interface system is hard because designers must model as closely as possible the dialogue between humans. But the fact that computers are not humans suggest that we cannot use human to human data as a viable source of design data for the creation of a new speech interface system. Instead, a wizard of Oz study is used, where a human simulates an implemented system, allowing designers to study the language that is used in a unique dialogue situation between users and a computer. The goal of the wizard of Oz study is to collect data to inform the design of a speech interface for the lighting in the lab. The graphical user interface (GUI) for the light system will allow the wizard (the human simulating the system) in the Wizard of Oz study to respond to the user's requests more quickly, allowing him to more closely simulate an implemented speech interface to the lighting in the lab. This will allow us, to collect more realistic data for the future speech interface