Senior Research Fellow at Université Claude-Bernard-Lyon-I and Visiting Professor at DEIB
Online seminar - May 04th, 2021 at 10:00 am
Contact: Prof. Cinzia Cappiello and Prof. Maristella Matera
Research area: Computer Science and Engineering
On May 04th, 2021 at 10:00 am, prof. Marcos Antonio Baez Gonzalez, Senior Research Fellow at Université Claude-Bernard-Lyon-I (France) and Visiting Professor at DEIB DEpartment, will hold an online seminar titled "Conversational Web Browsing: Turning interactions with websites into natural-language dialogs ".
In this talk, we will present the foundation for a new delivery paradigm for web-accessible content and functionality, i.e., Conversational Web Browsing. Instead of asking users to read text, click-through links and type on the keyboard, the vision is to enable users to “speak to a website” and to obtain natural language, spoken feedback. This represents a departure from the current interaction paradigm that is heavily based on - and optimized for - graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and promises to benefit blind and visually impaired users as well as regular users in eyes-free / hands-free scenarios. The presentation will introduce our ongoing work into generating conversational interfaces out of websites, and our exploration into dialog patterns for web access focusing on blind and visually impaired users.
To participate, please, use this link.
About the speaker:
Marcos Baez is a Senior Research Fellow at Université Claude-Bernard-Lyon-I (France), where he is carrying out research on AI-enabled services, taking a pragmatic and human-centred approach to design and engineering. He is also a visiting researcher at DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, where is actively collaborating on the conversational web browsing project. In the past, Marcos participated in the research and development of successful tech-supported wellbeing initiatives at University of Trento (UNITN), working at the boundary of research communities and disciplines to understand the opportunities for technological and social innovations. His main research interests include Web engineering, Crowdsourcing, Human-AI interaction, and in general how design and engineering can be combined to make people’s life better. Marcos has a PhD in information and communication technologies from UNITN.
