Technology

Question 1

Multitasking

Answer 1

Alternation of attention between two or more cognitive tasks that take in different inputs, engage in different processes and produce different outputs.

Question 2

Inattention Blindness

Answer 2

Failure to perceive or remember a stimulus directly in the visual field because another cognitively demanding task is being performed.

Question 3

Incidental-Recognition-Memory Paradigm

Answer 3

A procedure in which participants are tested on their ability to remember items that they were not specifically instructed to pay attention to.

Question 4

Human Factors

Answer 4

An interdisciplinary field that studies the way humans interact with the machines they use.

Question 5

Phatic Communication

Answer 5

Language exchange for the sole purpose of building and maintaining social relationships.

Question 6

Textism

Answer 6

An innovative use of language in text messaging.

Question 7

Corpus

Answer 7

A large selection of text or speech that is used to train natural language processing software.

Question 8

Automatic Speech Recognition

Answer 8

The machine process of converting spoken language to text.

Question 9

Speech Generating Device

Answer 9

A computer program that produces spoken language output (e.g., Siri)

Question 10

Synthesized Speech

Answer 10

Computer generated sound output that mimics the fluctuations in fundamental frequencies and formants of human speech.

Question 11

Assistive Reading Software

Answer 11

A computer program that extracts text from a scanned document and then converts the text to synthesized speech.

Question 12

Question-Answering System

Answer 12

A computer program that takes natural language inquiries as input, searches databases or the internet for information, and then provides answers in the form of natural language.

Question 13

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Answer 13

An umbrella term for strategies and devices that help those with language impairments to engage in social interactions.

Question 14

Voice Banking

Answer 14

The process of recording voice samples for later use in a speech-generating device. For patients with degenerative diseases who will lose their voice.

Question 15

Turing Test

Answer 15

The proposal that a machine should be considered intelligent if its ability to hold a conversation is indistinguishable from that of a human being.

Question 16

ELIZA effect

Answer 16

Misidentifying a computer generated text message as coming from a human.

Question 17

Chatbot

Answer 17

A computer program that can simulate an intelligent conversation within a restricted topic.

Question 18

Loebner Prize

Answer 18

Annual award presented to the computer program that comes closest to passing the Turing test.

Question 19

Confederate Effect

Answer 19

The tendency to misidentify human-generated text messages as coming from a computer.

Question 20

Embodied Conversational Agent

Answer 20

A spoken dialogue system that also includes a virtual or physical body.

Question 21

CAPTCHA

Answer 21

Completely automatized public turing test to tell computers and humans apart. Test for humaness. Reverse Turing Test.