An evaluation framework for adaptive user interfaces

• Main Author: Noriega Atala, Enrique
• Language: EN
• Published: The University of Arizona 2014
• Subjects: Artificial Intelligence
• Online Access: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1559719

<p> With the rise of powerful mobile devices and the broad availability of computing power, <i>Automatic Speech Recognition</i> is becoming ubiquitous. A flawless ASR system is still far from existence. Because of this, interactive applications that make use of ASR technology not always recognize speech perfectly, when not, the user must be engaged to repair the transcriptions. </p><p> We explore a <i>rational user interface</i> that uses of machine learning models to make its best effort in presenting the best repair strategy available to reduce the time in spent the interaction between the user and the system as much as possible. A study is conducted to determine how different candidate policies perform and results are analyzed. </p><p> After the analysis, the methodology is generalized in terms of a decision theoretical framework that can be used to evaluate the performance of other rational user interfaces that try to optimize an expected cost or utility.</p>