Rhema: A real-time in-situ intelligent interface to help people with public speaking

MI Tanveer, E Lin, M Hoque - … of the 20th international conference on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on intelligent user interfaces, 2015dl.acm.org
A large number of people rate public speaking as their top fear. What if these individuals
were given an intelligent interface that provides live feedback on their speaking skills? In this
paper, we present Rhema, an intelligent user interface for Google Glass to help people with
public speaking. The interface automatically detects the speaker's volume and speaking rate
in real time and provides feedback during the actual delivery of speech. While designing the
interface, we experimented with two different strategies of information delivery: 1) …
A large number of people rate public speaking as their top fear. What if these individuals were given an intelligent interface that provides live feedback on their speaking skills? In this paper, we present Rhema, an intelligent user interface for Google Glass to help people with public speaking. The interface automatically detects the speaker's volume and speaking rate in real time and provides feedback during the actual delivery of speech. While designing the interface, we experimented with two different strategies of information delivery: 1) Continuous streams of information, and 2) Sparse delivery of recommendation. We evaluated our interface with 30 native English speakers. Each participant presented three speeches (avg. duration 3 minutes) with 2 different feedback strategies (continuous, sparse) and a baseline (no feeback) in a random order. The participants were significantly more pleased (p < 0.05) with their speech while using the sparse feedback strategy over the continuous one and no feedback.
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