Ethan O. Selfridge

MVA: The Multimodal Virtual Assistant

The Multimodal Virtual Assistant (MVA) is an application that enables users to plan an outing through an interactive multimodal dialog with a mobile device. MVA demonstrates how a cloud-based multimodal language processing infrastructure can support mobile multimodal interaction. This demonstration will highlight incremental recognition, multimodal speech and gesture input, contextually-aware language understanding, and the targeted clarification of potentially incorrect segments within user input.

Interact: Tightly-coupling Multimodal Dialog with an Interactive Virtual Assistant

Interact is a mobile virtual assistant that uses multimodal dialog to enable an interactive concierge experience over multiple application domains including hotel, restaurants, events, and TV search. Interact demonstrates how multi- modal interaction combined with conversational dialog en- ables a richer and more natural user experience. This demonstration will highlight incremental recognition and under- standing, multimodal speech and gesture input, context track- ing over multiple simultaneous domains, and the use of multimodal interface techniques to enable disambiguation of erors and online personalization.