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Jennifer Lai's Home Page |
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My Work: |
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I am an Interaction Designer working in the Pervasive Computing group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. I specialize in the design of conversational speech interfaces.
My projects include the Virtual Assistant which is a speech-based solution supporting mobile knowledge workers' need to access business information such as email and calendar entries while traveling. This solution can be accessed from any phone, and uses a combination of� statistical based speech recognition, dialog management and synthetic speech to create a conversational interface.
Another project that I am working on, BlueSpace, actually does not have any speech components in it (yet).� We are looking at the integration of sensor technologies and off-the-desktop displays in ways which could be used to solve many of the common problems experienced by users in a cubicle environment. The components that I am most interested in involve team awareness, communication, as well as the use of peripheral displays for information monitoring. |
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Scuba diving in Asia with my son Jared. (Hint: I'm the one on the right) |
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IBM Research HCI Symposium 2004 |
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Other Stuff: |
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Personal Interests |
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Call for Participation: CHI 2002 Workshop on Speech |
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Call for Participation: Special Issue of IJST on Speech and HCI |
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Link to my page at IBM Research
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Select Publications: |
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Patents: |
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Lai, J.,Wood, D., Considine, M. (2000) The Effects of Task Conditions on the Comprehensibility of� Synthetic Speech In� ACM SIG CHI 2000 Conference Proceedings (pp. 321 - 329) |
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I have 6 patents that have been issued. Click here for the list. |
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Gong, L., Lai, J. (2001) Shall we Mix Synthetic Speech and Human Speech? Impact on Users' Performance, Perception and Attitude. In� ACM SIG CHI 2001 Conference Proceedings (pp. 158 - 166) |
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Contact Info: |
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Jennifer Lai
IBM Research
19 Skyline Drive
Hawthorne, New York
10532
lai at watson . ibm . com |
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Lai, J.,Cheng, K., Tsimhoni, O., Green, P. (2001) On the Road and on the Web: Comprehension of Synthetic and Human Speech While Driving. In� ACM SIG CHI 2001 Conference Proceedings (pp. 206 - 213) |
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Lai, J.,(2001) When Computers, Speak, Hear andUnderstand. Communications of the ACM, March 2001, Volume 44, Number 3 |
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Lai,J., Srinivasan, S. (2001) Designed for Enablement, or Disabled by Design? Choosing the Path to Effective Speech Application Design. In� Usability Evaluation and Interface Design, Smith, M., Salvendy, G, Harris, D., Koubek, R. (Editors) LEA 2001 |
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Other Publications: |
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Click here for a complete list of publications. |
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Lai, J., Yankelovich, N. (2002) Conversational Speech Interfaces, in Handbook of Human Computer Interaction, Sears, A., Jacko, J. (Editors) LEA, N.J. (in press) |
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Karat, J., Lai, J., Danis, C, Wolfe C. (1999) Speech User Interface Evolution, in Gardner-Bonneau, D. Human Factors and Voice Interactive Systems (Editor) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA |
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Lai, J., Vergo, J.. (1997) MedSpeak: Report Creation with Continuous Speech Recognition, In ACM SIG CHI 1997 Conference Proceedings |
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