Krishi-Bharati: An interface for Indian farmer

Author

Ghosh, Soumalya ; Garg, A.B. ; Sarcar, Sayan ; Sridhar, P.S.V.S. ; Maleyvar, Ojasvi ; Kapoor, Raveesh

Author_Institution

Univ. of Pet. & Energy Studies, Dehradun, India

fYear

2014

fDate

Feb. 28 2014-March 2 2014

Firstpage

259

Lastpage

263

Abstract

Rapid growth in the field of ICT helps in basic aspects of mankind like-agriculture, education, healthcare etc. However, the moderate technical growth of ICT applications is confined to the community of a limited number of people, who live in digital pockets. The illiterate people like - farmer, shopkeeper etc. are unable to take the advantages of the ICT revolution. According to the UNESCO report, population of such people in the globe is 64% who are unable to use the technology either language or technical barrier. Moreover the percentage (76%) must be increased in the context of developing countries. The essential agriculture information is very useful to a farmer for taking effective decision thus we proposed to develop an iconic interface which is integrated with speech based interaction in Indian languages. The proposed interface is critically evaluated with the farmer from different states of India. The evaluation results proved the effectiveness of the proposed interface.

Keywords

agriculture; graphical user interfaces; natural language processing; speech-based user interfaces; ICT; Indian farmer; Indian languages; Krishi-Bharati; iconic interface; mankind like-agriculture; speech based interaction; Agriculture; Communities; Context; Engines; Internet; Speech; Usability; Agriculture information system; Information and comunication technology; Internet; farming; human computer interaction; iconic interface; information retrieal;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Students' Technology Symposium (TechSym), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Kharagpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2607-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TechSym.2014.6808057

Filename

6808057