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20 Cards in this Set
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What developments are driving the development of completely new interfaces? |
cheaper and more powerful personal computers Brakthrought in technology such as speech recognition convergence of personal computers and consumer electronics |
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what has inspired a whole cottage industry to develop to improve today's graphical user interface? |
the hyperlinkdes design of the world wide web |
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in what way have xml-based formats changed the user interface? |
they allowed users to view content including local and network files, wtihin a single browser interface |
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what type of computers are cerrtain to benefit from spech technology? |
palm-size and hand-held PCs |
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name a process where a mouse is particularly useful and a process where it is not so useful |
a mouser is very efficiemnt devide for desktop navigation a mouse is not so usefil for changing the style of paragraph |
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what facilities are multimodal interfaces likely to offer in the future? |
speech recognition, handwriting recognition, text to speech TTS, the ability to recognise faces or gestures and the ability to observe their surroundings |
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whyt type of input divece will be used to give vision to the user intarface? |
video cameras |
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what development has led to an interest in intelligent agents? |
the rapidly exapnding increase of information, both on the internet and within intranets |
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list ways in which intelligent agents can be used |
they can be used as web browsers, help desks, and shopping assistans |
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GUI |
graphical user interface |
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Multimodal interface |
a system that allows a user to interact with a computer using a combination of inputs such as speech recognition, hand writing recognition, text to speech, etc |
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intelligent agent |
software assistant that pefroms tasks such as retrieving and delivering informatiion and automating repetitive tasks |
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TTS |
text to speech |
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The intelligent room |
a project of the masssachusetts institue of technologys artificial intelligence lab |
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fewer people are using computers beacuse computer functions are becoming integrated into other electronic devices. |
false |
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keyboards and mice will soon not be requiered for using personal computers |
false |
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there have been no improvements in interface design since the development of the GUI |
false |
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speech recognition is likely to completely replace other input devices |
false |
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computer speech and vision will free the user from havong to sit in front of a keyboard and screen |
true |
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intelligent agents will make computers seem more like humans |
true |
