Research from MIT (5)
(Pentland, 2000)

Speech recognition:

Many speech recognition systems have a preset vocabulary
Speech an augmentation to traditional interaction (DM interfaces)

Problem: people apply

different words,
at different times,

to the same construct

'Toco the Toucan' system:

A trainable set of words and gestures
Object and action meanings learnt through associated gesture mapping

Pentland (2000)