This paper presents a multimodal social networking system aimed at sharing geographic information among proximate users. The system provides users with a traditional web-based interface along with a voice-based interface that can be accessed over a mobile phone. We describe the main design features of the system, different aspects of its functionality, as well as a number of design challenges imposed by multimodality on a social networking system. This paper also presents the results of the end-user acceptance study conducted to assess the usability of the system.
Index Terms:
mobile systems, social networking, voice interface, VoiceXML
Citation:
Stan Kurkovsky, David Strimple, Eric Nuzzi, Kerry Verdecchia, "Mobile Voice Access in Social Networking Systems," itng, pp.982-987, Fifth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (itng 2008), 2008