Paper Reading #25 - Using language complexity to measure cognitive load for adaptive interaction design

Reference:

M. Asif Khawaja, Fang Chen, and Nadine Marcus.

IUI '10 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Summary:

This paper is about an adaptive interaction system.  Te system keeps track of the users' current cognitive load, and can change its response, presentation and interaction flow to improve the users' experience and performance.  The authors propose a speech content analysis approach for measuring the users cognitive load.  The system will analyze the users language and dialogue complexity.

Discussion:
I think that this system could be useful.  Unfortunately, this paper focuses on the analysis of the users load rather than what the system would do the help the users performance.  I think that that would be more interesting than this.