Understanding acceptability of disordered speech through Audience Response Systems-based evaluation

Empowering knowledge based speech understanding through statistics

In this paper we present an innovative approach to speech understanding which is based on a fine–grained knowledge representation automatically compiled from a semantic network and on iterative optimization. Besides allowing an efficient exploitation of parallelism, any–time capability is provided since after each iteration step a (sub–)optimal solution is always available. We apply this approa...

Audience-response systems for evaluation of pediatric lectures – comparison with a classic end-of-term online-based evaluation

AIM Course evaluations are often conducted and analyzed well after the course has taken place. By using a digital audience response system (ARS), it is possible to collect, view and discuss feedback during or directly following a course or lecture session. This paper analyzes a student evaluation of a lecture course with ARS to determine if significant differences exist between the results of t...

Speech Understanding Systems

Audience-Aware Credibility: From Understanding Audience to Establishing Credible Blogs

This study examines how bloggers establish and enhance the credibility of their blogs through a series of blogging practices. Based on an analysis of interviews with 22 independent bloggers who blog on a range of topics, we present audience-aware credibility as a theoretical construct. Audience-aware credibility is defined as how bloggers signal their credibility based on who they think their a...

Student evaluation of audience response technology in large lecture classes

In the past few years, audience response technology (ART) has been widely adopted on college campuses, and is especially popular among instructors of large lecture classes. Claims regarding ART’s benefits to students have received only limited empirical evaluation, and prior studies exhibit methodological limitations. The current study provides a multi-dimensional evaluation, utilizing a newly-...