Общее·количество·просмотров·страницы

воскресенье, 16 октября 2011 г.

Ефимов Павел ВМ-01

A.
1. What developments are driving the development of compeletely  new interfaces?
Developments such as speech recognition, and the convergence of PC and consumer electronic devices .
2. What has inspired a whole cottage industry to develop to improve today's graphical user interface?
The hyperlinked design of the World wide web.
3. In what way have XML-based formats changed the user interface?
Including local and network files within a single browser interface.
4. What type of computers are certain to benefit from speech technology?
Palm-size and handheld PCs.
5. Name a process where a mouse is particularly userful and a process where it is not so useful?
Not for changing the style of a paragraph. a user can first point to appropriate paragraph.
6. What facilities are multimodal interfaces likely to offer in the future?
Hand writing recognition, text to speech, the ability to recognize faces or gestures, and even the ability to observe their surroundings.
7. What type of input device will be used to give vision to the user interface?
Videocameras.
8. What development has to an interest in intelligent agents?
This information onslaught has ledto an interest in intelligent agents.
9. List ways in which intelligent agents can be used?
They can be used as Web browsers, help-desks, and shopping assistants.

B. 1.
a. GUI - graphical user interface.
b. Multimodal interface - a system that allows a user to interact with a computer using a combination of inputs such as speech recognition, hardwriting recognation, text to spech, etc.
c. Intelligent agent - software assistant that perfoms tasks such as retrieving and delivering information and automating repetitive tasks.
d. TTS - text to speech
e. The intelligent room - a project of the Mussachusetts institute of Technology's Artifical Intelligence Lab.

B. 2.
a. Fewer people are using computers because computer functions are becoming integrated into other electronic devices. - False.
b. Keyboards and mice will soon not be required for using personal computers.
True.
c. There have been no improvements in interface gesign since the development of the GUI. - Falce.
d. Speech recognition is likely to completely replace other input devices. - False.
e. Computer speech and vision will free the user from having to sit in front of a keyboard and sreen. - True.
f. Intelligent agents will make computers seem more like humans. - True.