A Personal Handheld Multi-Modal Shopping Assistant

Author

Davis, Z. ; Hu, M. ; Prasad, S. ; Schuricht, M. ; Melliar-Smith, P.M. ; Moser, L.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA

fYear

2006

fDate

16-18 July 2006

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

117

Abstract

We describe a personal handheld multi-modal shopping assistant that we have developed to aid the everyday consumer in one of the most routine tasks, grocery shopping. The shopping assistant provides the user with the ability to create a shopping list with up-to-date prices and item images, search for items in a store database, suggest recipes based on items in the shopping list, and display a store map with the items in the shopping list highlighted to make them easier to find. The user can interact with the personal handheld shopping assistant using speech, graphics, and text. We not only describe the shopping assistant but also demonstrate its many useful features

Keywords

mobile computing; mobile handsets; retailing; grocery shopping; item images; personal handheld multi-modal shopping assistant; shopping list; store database; store map; up-to-date prices; Business; Collaboration; Displays; Graphics; Image databases; Keyboards; Marketing and sales; Mobile communication; Natural languages; Speech recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networking and Services, 2006. ICNS '06. International conference on

Conference_Location

Slicon Valley, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2622-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNS.2006.10

Filename

1690587