This paper describes ICON, a novel editor designed toconfigure a set of input devices and connect them to actionsinto a graphical interactive application. ICON allowsphysically challenged users to connect alternative inputdevices and/or configure their interaction techniquesaccording to their needs. It allows skilled users – graphicdesigners or musicians for example ...

Voice quality assessment is an emergent aspect in Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network. The evolution of GSM also able in principle to take benefit from end to end services.GSM network inherently include elements such as noisy intermediate equipments that degrade the quality of transmitted voice signal.GSM network presents an alternate method to improve quality and customer exp...

New multimedia smart phones for wireless voice and data communications are now available. In this paper, a new user interface for a Personal Communications Services (PCS) smart phone is described. The user interface is designed around the unique characteristics of mobile wireless applications. Both the physical characteristics of the phone and the way users interact with applications are unique...

This paper examines the use of integrated circuits that produce speech in consumer products, commonly called voice chips. The goal of this paper is to document what these products actually say and to try to understand what the voices of these products represent, specifically, what they say about techno-social relations. The paper describes how voice chip technology differs from other 'talking h...

† The entirety of the work presented in this paper was conducted while the first author was affiliated with the Computer Science and Engineering department, DUB Group, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA. Abstract. We conducted a quantitative experiment to determine the performance characteristics of non-speech vocalization for discrete input generation in comparison to ex...