Talking Assistant – Car Repair Shop Demo

In this video paper we present the Talking Assistant and the STAIRS project, and how the two interact. The Talking Assistant is a device for interacting in ubiquitous computing environments. It features sensors, wireless communications and simple local speech recognition. The STAIRS project concerns browsing of structured hypertext documents in audio. One key feature of STAIRS is, that beside speech commands, navigation can be controlled by changes in context. In this paper we show one example of how context changes can be detected with infrared tags.