Gerald Penn

schoolUniversity of Torontobar_chart#2710 Global Rank

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Making the Write Connections: Linking Writing Support Tools with Writer Needs

This work sheds light on whether and how creative writers' needs are met by existing research and commercial writing support tools (WST). We conducted a need finding study to gain insight into the writers' process during creative writing through a qualitative analysis of the response from an online questionnaire and R…

CHI '18CorrespondingVoice User Interface (VUI) Design +1

Speech and Hands-free Interaction: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities

HCI research has for long been dedicated to better and more naturally facilitating information transfer between humans and machines. Unfortunately, humans' most natural form of communication, speech, is also one of the most difficult modalities to be understood by machines – despite, and perhaps, because it is the hig…

CHI '18CorrespondingMultilingual & Cross-Cultural Voice Interaction +1

Designing Pronunciation Learning Tools: The Case for Interactivity against Over-Engineering

Paired role-play is a common collaborative activity in language learning classrooms, adding meaning and cultural context to the learning process. This is complemented by teachers' immediate and explicit feedback. Interactive tools that provide explicit feedback during collaborative learning are scarce, however. More…

CHI '18CorrespondingVoice User Interface (VUI) Design +1

Speech and Hands-free Interaction: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities

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