%0 Journal Article
%T Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction Technologies.Theoretical Modeling and Application in Speech Processing.
%A Hunyadi
%A L¨˘szl¨®
%J Argumentum
%D 2011
%I Debrecen University Press
%X Robots have been around for several decades with an ever increasing role, especially in industry. Nowadays they are used in information systems as well, e.g. public real-time dialogue systems. In order to assist humans in their diverse everyday needs, certain important steps are being made to create so-called smart robots. The more we wish robots to have human-like behaviour the more it becomes essential to study the nature of human-human communication in order to identify and possibly implement its major systemic characteristics in the technological world of robotics. This paper presents the outlines of a multimodal theory of communication that is aimed at both capturing the technologically relevant structure of human-human communication and offering a way of mapping such a structure onto technology. Since communication takes place simultaneously as a process of analysis and synthesis, we propose a two-way generative model assumed to be suitable to be equally adopted in both directions. Inspired by the basic approach of generative linguistics, the model wishes to meet the challenge of offering an interface between the qualitative multimodal features of communication and their quantitative representation in technology.
%K human-computer interaction
%K language technology
%K human-human communication
%K arbitrary interpersonal communicative event
%K text-based interactive systems
%U http://argumentum.unideb.hu/2011-anyagok/works/HunyadiL.pdf