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06 August 2002 |
Speech rec apps being used by the military for speech synthesis (text-to-speech), biometrics, etc. Usual story, but these lessons on user-oriented design and explanation from the military are absolutely spot-on (paraphrased directly from the article):
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government users must better define their requirements to get applicable tools into warfighters' hands
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understand what a users' requirements are or they will take the systems out there and the portions that it applies to [will use it] and for the others that it doesn't work, it becomes a doorstop. One piece of equipment can't satisfy everybody.
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if a vendor suggests a device is "all things to all people" military users will quickly be disappointed when it doesn't meet expectations, and then they will throw it in the back of the truck
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target a device towards an environment: if a Marine understands what he's got and how to use it, even if it's only 70 or 80 percent, he can deal with that.
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dependability is equally important as a small footprint, reliable power source and usability
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It must also be user-friendly: if you need a Ph.D. to use it and you hand it to a 19-year-old Marine who is used to five or six sentences explaining how to use [equipment], that's not the right environment (... but that tool could work for a senior intelligence analyst: have to understand the target)
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The world’s mobile industry is pinning its hopes on a new generation of camera phone. Chris Gent (Vodafone) certainly is in Sat 3 August's Guardian.
11:20:12 PM
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As expected it either catches everyone or no-one, depending on its sensitivity.
11:17:38 PM
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