Module - Case

WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION?

Assignment Overview

One of the most basic aims of human computer interaction has been speech recognition. The ability to talk to machines in common language, rather than through mechanical devices or artificial languages, has been a major desirable in business, education, government, and about every other field of endeavor. In the last few years, there have been enormous strides made by researchers and software engineers alike, and there are now effective products on the market that do a solid basic job. In fact, this particular text that you are now reading was entered into this course by your instructor using a voice-recognition program called Dragon Naturally Speaking. This entire paragraph was entered with only two errors that required correction.

As speech-recognition technology becomes more mature, it has been increasingly applied in many areas.

Assignment Expectations

After reading the course materials, prepare a paper discussing the following topics.

Discuss why HCI is important and has evolved to ensure that the needs of different kinds of users are taken into account in computer systems.

Discuss the application of speech recognition as a tool for Human Computer Interaction.

In this paper, please consider both current major issues in the field, and major future developments that hold promise.

Length: Minimum 3-5 pages excluding cover page and references (since a page is about 300 words, this is approximately 900 -1,500 words).