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Wearable Technology Can Help With Public Speaking
A team at the University of Rochester has developed an intelligent users interface for smart glasses that can help people with public speaking.
Credit: M. Iftekhar Tanveer et al.
An intelligent user interface for smart glasses developed by a team from the University of Rochester can help people with public speaking. Called Rhema after the Greek word for "utterance," the system is designed to record a speaker, transmit the audio to a server to automatically analyze the volume and speaking rate, and then present the data to the speaker in real time.
The team from Rochester's Human-Computer Interaction Group recently presented a paper on the system at ACM's Intelligent User Interfaces conference in Atlanta.
The researchers note designing a system that was minimally distracting was a challenge. "One challenge is to keep the speakers informed about their speaking performance without distracting them from their speech," they say.
The researchers tested the system with a group of 30 native English speakers using Google Glasses, and learned the best approach was delivering feedback every 20 seconds in the form of words. They also enlisted Mechanical Turk workers to test whether a speaker using the system would be distracting to an audience.
The team believes the technology also could benefit people with social difficulties and customer service workers.
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