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Computer Science @ Rochester
Friday, January 21, 2011
12:00 PM
CSB 703
Jeffrey P. Bigham
University of Rochester
Human-Backed Access Technology
The past few decades have seen the development of wonderful new intelligent technology that serves as sensors onto an inaccessible world for people with disabilities - as examples, optical character recognition (OCR) makes printed text available to blind people, speech recognition makes spoken language available to deaf people, and way-finding systems help keep people with cognitive impairments on track.

Despite advances, this technology remains both too prone to errors and too limited in the scope of problems it can reliably solve to address many of the problems faced by disabled people in their everyday lives. In this talk, I'll discuss the potential for always-available human computation to fill in remaining gaps in order to make intelligent user interfaces useful and practical in the everyday lives of users, and show several examples of how my research is combining artificial and human intelligence to enable novel interfaces.