W3C

– DRAFT –
Voice Interaction

11 January 2023

Attendees

Present
bev, debbie, dirk, jim, jon
Regrets
-
Chair
debbie
Scribe
ddahl

Meeting minutes

interfaces document

dirk: goal is to provide examples to clarify document
… use cases -- information retrieval and accessing remote services
… looking at messages about weather forecast
… audio output, but could also include text
… will also include text
… also flight reservation use case

debbie: change log would include examples

dirk: didn't publish the first version of this

dirk: create reference implementation
… going to existing IPA's
… should be possible to map to proprietary formats

debbie: web page as endpoint?

jim: should these examples include endpoints?

debbie: endpoints are defined in the architecture document

jim: should include a screen

debbie: it's a MAY requirement

look at GitHub issues

dirk: worked on GitHub

dirk: after closing, should be able to release document
… addedd labels in GitHub issues
… let's revisit issues

requirements

debbie: next requirement is "3. The Dialog Manager MUST consider ongoing workflows that must not be interrupted"

dirk: is this MUST or SHOULD

bev: medical device

jim: processing of emergency message

jon: automotive user management

debbie: who decides what must not be interrupted?

jim: priority list of interruptions
… with a boundary

debbie: does user decide?

dirk: interruptibility of user and interruptibility of workflow

jim: depends on application, so is this out of scope?

debbie: users must always be able to interrupt the system

jon: calls to 911 have priority, there may be societal concerns

bev: how to insure that technologies in systems cannot be weaponized

jim: partial shutdown

bev: what to log and not log?

jim: you might not want to log some things

debbie: should we remove "5. The Dialog Manager MUST determine the Dialog that is best suited to serve the current user input"
… is that just saying the DM should do its job

stop at "5. The Dialog Manager MUST receive the next dialog move as output from the selected Dialog or the IPA Service'

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 197 (Tue Nov 8 15:42:48 2022 UTC).

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