Conversational User Interfaces
Conversational user interfaces allow various natural communication modes like speech, gestures and facial expressions for input as well as output and exploit the context in which an input is used to compute its meaning. The growing emphasis on conversational user interfaces is fundamentally inspired by the aim to support natural, flexible, efficient and powerfully expressive means of human-computer communication that are easy to learn and use. Advances in human language technology and
intelligent user interfaces offer the promise of pervasive access to online information and web services. The development of conversational user interfaces allows the average person to interact with computers anytime and anywhere without special skills or training, using such common devices as a mobile phone.