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Human computer interaction (HCI) has emulated
certain aspect of human-human communication in the recent
decade, opening possibilities for machines to converse with
humans. However, speech recognition schemes have
substantially improved in terms of implementing experimental
spoken dialogue systems (SDS) that function within specific
semantic domains. The dialogue management (DM) module can
be used to control conversation between humans and computers,
subsequently affecting the performance of SDS significantly.
However, in addition to only adopting finite state
machine approaches to represent the states of dialogue and
treating each user as a similar conversational behavior, this
module can not learn from various conversational contexts.
Moreover, SDS can not perform as humans do owing to the
inability to exploit the discrepancies between users and a lack of
automatic adaptation.
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Given the difficulty of evaluating SDS,
many evaluation parameters have been used in previous
research, i.e. the total time of utterances, the number of
user/machine dialogue turns and the transaction success.
In the travel domain, correct responses of SDS would be
only around 80%.
Despite enhancements, SDS accuracy
falls below user requirements, thus restricting severely the
development of speech applications, i.e. voice portal, and
ultimately incurring a collapse of human-human
communication in HCI.
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Based on the above, we should develop
an efficient SDS scheme that incorporates user
diversity and an evolutionary model to adapt to
various conversational contexts.
To do so, a fine-grained user
model can be derived to accurately represent a
users situation; the user model comprises a skill
level for the system, knowledge level on the target
domain and degree of hastiness. The adaptation
of SDS can then be achieved using a reinforced
learning approach.
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As anticipated, the proposed SDS
scheme can increase the response accuracy of air
travel-related problems and response system by
15%. Additionally, the proposed scheme can
contribute to efforts to further enhance HCI with
robustness by facilitating natural speech dialogic
communication with computers.
Importantly, given the large
discrepancy in individual behavior or conversation,
the proposed spoken dialogue scheme can also
provide a valuable reference for efforts underway
to model the divergence of users.
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Constructing and applying intelligent environments have
received considerable interest in industrial and academic circles.
Digital life has also received much interest in recent years, with
identification technology playing a critical role in intelligent environment
research. Many IT manufacturers design and produce various
handheld 3C products to gain a foothold in the emerging digital life
market.
However, given its focus on home care, home learning, and
home entertainment, digital life applications are limited to the home.
Additionally, radio frequency identification (RFID), i.e. conventionally
adopted critical identification technology, is seldom adopted in digital
life studies, thus restricting the creation of R&D efforts in digital life.
The above fact not only reflects the inability to
integrate various intelligent environments, but also indicates that only
10% of all 3C products can be used as expected as their prime
scenario due to an unsound intelligent environment.
Therefore, the promotional efforts in mobile commerce
are not well defined. Moreover, profits from the digital life market
account for only 10% of the entire 3C market.
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Based on the above, we should develop a novel intelligent
architecture, capable of increasing the efficiency of mobile commerce.
The proposed architecture can integrate the applications of several
environments, i.e. home, mini markets, shopping malls and banks.
To do so, an intelligent info-filtering mechanism for
tags reading can be established. The status-management mechanism
of daily commodities can then be presented. Next, a secure settlement
and payment mechanism can be developed as well. Additionally, a
practical info-interchange method can be constructed.
As anticipated, the proposed architecture can integrate
RFID and context awareness technologies in a ubiquitous environment
to increase the efficiency of mobile commerce. In addition to
contributing to research efforts in digital life, the proposed architecture
can also enhance the potential of mobile commerce and increase
profits from the digital life market by up to 30% of that from the entire
3C market.
Moreover, the proposed architecture can provide a
valuable reference for business models, ultimately providing
opportunities for 3C manufacturers to consume value-added products.
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