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Author Nass, Clifford Ivar.

Title Wired for speech : how voice activates and advances the human-computer relationship / Clifford Nass and Scott Brave
Published Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, 2005

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 MELB  004.019 Nas/Wfs  AVAILABLE
Description xvii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary "Wired for Speech presents new theories and experiments and applies them to critical issues concerning how people interact with technology-based voices. It considers how people respond to a female voice in e-commerce (does stereotyping matter?), how a car's voice can promote safer driving (are "happy" cars better cars?), whether synthetic voices have personality and emotion (is sounding like a person always good?), whether an automated call center should apologize when it cannot understand a spoken request ("To Err Is Interface; To Blame, Complex"), and much more. Nass and Brave's deep understanding of both social science and design, drawn from ten years of research at Nass's Stanford laboratory, produces results that often challenge conventional wisdom and common design practices
These insights will help designers and marketers build better interfaces, scientists construct better theories, and everyone gain better understandings of the future of the machines that speak with us."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject User interfaces (Computer systems)
Human-computer interaction.
Automatic speech recognition.
Author Brave, Scott.
LC no. 2004065645
ISBN 0262140926 hardback
Other Titles Wired for speech
How voice activates and advances the human-computer relationship