From the point of view of our research, robustness in man-machine communication is defined as the "stability in time that it takes (or stable number of trials necessary) to perform a task, under varying conditions, including challenging conditions", such as acoustic variability caused by speaker differences, user stress or fatigue, noise, hesitations, etc. Robustness implies, in particular, reliability, consistency, and user satisfaction. The purpose of multimodal man-machine communication is to take advantage of the possibilities of multiple communication channels to establish a dialogue with a partner which, in the present case, is a computer Most of the past research has been done on unimodal dialogue. However, communication with computers, as it is for humans, should be multimodal.
Cite as: Junqua, J.-C. (1991) Robustness and cooperative multimodal man-machine communication applications. Proc. 2nd VENACO Workshop - The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue, 101-112
@inproceedings{junqua91_smmd,
author={Jean-Claude Junqua},
title={{Robustness and cooperative multimodal man-machine communication applications}},
year=1991,
booktitle={Proc. 2nd VENACO Workshop - The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue},
pages={101--112}
}