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Talking Head as Secretary

• Petra Mužíková (muzikp1_at_fel.cvut.cz)

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Who is Talking Head?

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Scenarios

• sekretarka1.bat - very temperate, conservative,
  without big emotional exhibition. It provides
  bare fact.
• sekretarka2.bat - very emotive, talkative and
  informal, presentatin of information is
  concentrated for other items (mimicry, sound of
  voice, laughing, wrath, instead of Good morning
  Mr. Anderson says Hello Bill)

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Questions

• Can Talking Head be used in office?
• Will be usefull?
• What functions does she do in company?
• What is the best/worst on Sarah?
• What will make Talking Head better?
• Which scenario is better? Why?

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Tests

• Requirements to candidates 8 personnes (4 men,
  4 women)knowledge englishworking in office
  (have own office)use PC to workhave time to do
  our Usability tests

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Answers

• Talking Head will be usefull for office
• She can do a lot of functions in office (diary,
  alarm clock, reminder, recorder, dictaphone,
  information machine)
• Can't replace alive secretary
• Bad graphic solution
• Missing interaction

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Summary

• Change graphic to be appealed
• Append more work for TH
• Create user's profile (Conference, Free you can
  talk, Discreetly bring information only as
  text... )
• Interaction between TH and user is necessary
• Connect to on-line information (news, traffic,
  weather, move in stack market)