An Adaptive Speech Interface for Assistance in Maintenance and Changeover Procedures

Machine operators remain important in future production environments and need intuitive and powerful interaction techniques. Many assistance and support appli-cations for machine operators use speech-based interfaces since they are suitable during manual tasks and when visual attention cannot be occupied. Due to devel-opments like the demographic change or the need for skilled personnel, the skills and capabilities of the workers will become increasingly diverse. Speech-based interfaces therefore need to be adaptable to the capabilities, limitations and prefer-ences of individual operators. This paper addresses this requirement and propos-es an adaptive speech interface that supports machine operators during mainte-nance and changeover procedures. All aspects of the proposed application can be adapted to the requirements of the user. The system uses a process model, in-struction templates, a user model, and a model of the input vocabulary to describe the components of the application. This allows a flexible adaptation of the speech interface and the provided instructions to the requirements of individual users and to further use cases.     «

Machine operators remain important in future production environments and need intuitive and powerful interaction techniques. Many assistance and support appli-cations for machine operators use speech-based interfaces since they are suitable during manual tasks and when visual attention cannot be occupied. Due to devel-opments like the demographic change or the need for skilled personnel, the skills and capabilities of the workers will become increasingly diverse. Speech-based interfaces therefor...     »