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Wired for Speech: How Voice Activates and Advances the Human-Computer Relationship
Clifford Nass
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Paperback. How interactive voice-based technology can tap into the automatic and powerful responses all speech--whether from human or machine--evokes. Num Pages: 319 pages, 1 illus. BIC Classification: UYU; UYZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
How interactive voice-based technology can tap into the automatic and powerful responses all speech-whether from human or machine-evokes. Interfaces that talk and listen are populating computers, cars, call centers, and even home appliances and toys, but voice interfaces invariably frustrate rather than help. In Wired for Speech, Clifford Nass and Scott Brave reveal how interactive voice technologies can readily and effectively tap into the automatic responses all speech-whether from human or machine-evokes. Wired for Speech demonstrates that people are voice-activated : we respond to voice technologies as we respond to actual people and behave as we would in any social situation. By leveraging this powerful finding, voice interfaces can truly emerge as the next frontier for efficient, user-friendly technology. Wired for Speech presents new theories and experiments and applies them to critical issues concerning how people interact with technology-based voices. It considers how people respond to a female voice in e-commerce (does stereotyping matter?), how a car's voice can promote safer driving (are happy cars better cars?), whether synthetic voices have personality and emotion (is sounding like a person always good?), whether an automated call center should apologize when it cannot understand a spoken request ( To Err is Interface; To Blame, Complex ), and much more. Nass and Brave's deep understanding of both social science and design, drawn from ten years of research at Nass's Stanford laboratory, produces results that often challenge conventional wisdom and common design practices. These insights will help designers and marketers build better interfaces, scientists construct better theories, and everyone gain better understandings of the future of the machines that speak with us.
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
319
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
515g
Number of Pages
319
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262640657
SKU
V9780262640657
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99-1
About Clifford Nass
Clifford Nass is Professor, Department of Communication, and Codirector, Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory, at Stanford University. He is the author of The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places. Scott Brave is Chief Technology Officer at Baynote, Inc.
Reviews for Wired for Speech: How Voice Activates and Advances the Human-Computer Relationship
With
Wired for Speech
, Clifford Nass and Scott Brave have done a brilliant job of tracing the implications of the intensely social nature of speech for the burgeoning arena of voice interface systems. Anyone interested in these systems would do well to read this book.
Robert B. Cialdini, Arizona State University, author of
Influence: Science and Practice
I found
Wired for Speech
absolutely fascinating, full of amazing insights. It tells us that the more we are forced to learn how to interact with computers, the more we learn about the most human part of ourselves: that we are not only the masters but the slaves of speech.
Robert MacNeil, coauthor,
Do You Speak American?
This is a deeply insightful and immensely useful tour of what is sure to become the most important human-machine interface. As someone who thought he knew all about speech interaction, I was nonetheless surprised again and again as I read through it. Remember
2001
? Well, if Hal's fictional designers had read
Wired for Speech
, Hal not only would have brought his ship's crew back alive, he would have delivered a flawless Academy Award speech as well!
Paul Saffo, Director, Institute for the Future Should a computer refer to itself as 'I'? Questions such as these are philosophical, with implications that range from the social to the psychodynamic. In this dense and fascinating work, they are treated empirically: in a series of systematic investigations, the voice of the machine emerges as a new evocative object for thinking about how people actively draw the line between human and artificial. A compelling contribution to our understanding of computer-human relationships
now and in the years to come.
Sherry Turkle, MIT, author of
The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
and
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Wired for Speech
, Clifford Nass and Scott Brave have done a brilliant job of tracing the implications of the intensely social nature of speech for the burgeoning arena of voice interface systems. Anyone interested in these systems would do well to read this book.
Robert B. Cialdini, Arizona State University, author of
Influence: Science and Practice
I found
Wired for Speech
absolutely fascinating, full of amazing insights. It tells us that the more we are forced to learn how to interact with computers, the more we learn about the most human part of ourselves: that we are not only the masters but the slaves of speech.
Robert MacNeil, coauthor,
Do You Speak American?
This is a deeply insightful and immensely useful tour of what is sure to become the most important human-machine interface. As someone who thought he knew all about speech interaction, I was nonetheless surprised again and again as I read through it. Remember
2001
? Well, if Hal's fictional designers had read
Wired for Speech
, Hal not only would have brought his ship's crew back alive, he would have delivered a flawless Academy Award speech as well!
Paul Saffo, Director, Institute for the Future Should a computer refer to itself as 'I'? Questions such as these are philosophical, with implications that range from the social to the psychodynamic. In this dense and fascinating work, they are treated empirically: in a series of systematic investigations, the voice of the machine emerges as a new evocative object for thinking about how people actively draw the line between human and artificial. A compelling contribution to our understanding of computer-human relationships
now and in the years to come.
Sherry Turkle, MIT, author of
The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
and
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet