Jim’s comments on Intelligent Personal Architecture version 1.1

Jim’s comments on Intelligent Personal Architecture version 1.1

This is a well-written and well-organized document with lots of good 
ideas and suggestions.

I have one major concern:standards usually involve interfaces between 
components, not the components or how they work.This document does not 
identify interfaces that should be standardized.

Many of the following comments stretch the discussion from voice-centric 
to multimodal-centric, which I feel is the direction the world is heading.

1.Introduction

Who is the audience of this document?

2.Problem statement

I find this confusing.Is it hardware transparency, interoperability, or 
extensibility?

Include principles used to decide how partition the architecture into 
boxes, such as separation of concerns, each box does a single activity, 
etc.

2.1. Travel Planning

This is an example of a _specialized_ IPA

3.Architecture

Begin this section with three boxes labeled client, dialog, and 
APIs/Data. Then have 3 additional pictures, one for each box enlarged to 
show its contents.

Replace “microphone” by “capture” and then have a separate box to 
indicate alternative capturae techniques, including <microphone, ASR> < 
camera, vision algorithm>, <sensor, sensor interpreter> <joystick, 
joystsick interpreter> etc.

Replace “speaker” by “presentation” and then have a separate box to 
indicate alternative presentation techniques including <speaker, tts>, 
<screen, layout renderer> and <actuator, actuator activator>

Move TTS and ASR out of the dialog into the client box.They are user 
interface techniques rather than dialog techniques

3.3.2 dialog management(second to last bullet)

Undefined term: session

3.2.2.1 (it should be 3.1.3.1) client activation strategy

Include a client activation strategy involving pointing or clicking to 
select to the desired the target of the activation. This can be done 
with a mouse click or by vision in which the user points to the target.

3.2.2.1 dialog strategy

Don’t just list static, preplaned strategies.Add a dialog strategy 
called “dynamic” that determines the next step based on previous steps.

3.2.8.1 Core dialog

Undefined term: entities

I ran out of time about half way through his paper.Let me know if you 
want me to continue with the rest (if you are still speaking to me after 
all of my comments above.