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Environment used in the experiments, with a typical pictorial stimulus. 

Environment used in the experiments, with a typical pictorial stimulus. 

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Especially in mobile systems, one important part of the context of use involves psychological variables like cognitive load and time pressure. This paper looks at one possible way of capturing such aspects of context: the analysis of the features of the users' speech. In a replication and extension of an earlier study of our group, we created four...

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... The experimental environment simulated a situation in which a user is walking through a crowded airport terminal while asking questions to a mobile assis- tance system via speech (see Figure 1). In each of 80 trials, a picture appeared in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. ...
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... the basis of each picture, the subject was to ask a question, after motivating it with an introductory sentence. For example, for the picture shown in Figure 1, a subject might say "I'm getting thirsty. Is there . . . ...

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