Erin Panttaja

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Media Lab Europe
Erin Panttaja
The European Research Partner of the MIT Media Lab
Adaptive Speech Interfaces
Bringing language and gesture together to
helphumans interact with complex systems.

• As we move toward truly adaptive multimodal
  designs, the complexity of the systems we build
  is increasing exponentially. We need a way to
  codify design criteria so that even as a system
  adapts it remains usable, and, in some sense,
  designed. In Permanent Design, I am creating an
  architecture for the generation of multimodal
  systems,
• taking into account the preferences and needs of
  a given user or situation. This adaptability
  enables the generation of more user-centric
  designs by using generous data selection, then
  weeding out suboptimal designs with a scoring
  algorithm. This architecture uses a generous
  generation algorithm, creating more variants than
  are needed, then scoring those to control for
  variations that are not apparent before
  generation.
• The first project using the Permanent Design
  architecture is
• Travelog, which allows a user to access a
  personalized version of an annotated travel
  diary. Future systems will escape from the
  webpage model to create more detailed
  interactions for a single user, or for a theater
  full of users, that is created for the occasion
  and designed, by the system, to fulfill the needs
  of the situation.

Permanent Design
Bob wants to read a travelogue. He doesnt
particularly want to see personal narrative, and
certainly doesnt care about creative stuff.
Iris is a friend of the author. She wants to see
pretty much everything, but she cant understand
the authors interest in art, though she likes
to see pictures in general.

• Direct user requests for information
• Pre-generation screening
• Post-generation scoring