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Finding our way out at a large university campus is a problem. We developed VTQuest, http://sunfish.cs.vt.edu/VTQuestV, as a web-based software system to solve this problem for the campus of Virginia Tech (http://www.vt.edu/). VTQuest enables (a) multimodal interaction with voice, mouse, and keyboard, (b) browsing the campus map, (c) locating a building by name, abbreviation, category, or within a distance on the campus map, (d) locating a room on the floor plan of a building, and (e) obtaining walking directions from one building to another. VTQuest provides these capabilities for 103 buildings with floor plans for most of the buildings. VTQuest is engineered based on Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Speech Application Language Tags (SALT). SVG enables zooming into the maps without losing image quality. The voice interface offers a variety of features including an extensive grammar and out-of-turn interaction.

Author

Thomas W. Schneider and Osman Balci

Publisher

ACM

Published

2006

Language

EN