Clarissa on the International Space Station

^{June 27, 2005}
An article about Richard Karp, head of the Algorithms Group, appeared in the August-October 2005 issue of the French journal Les Dossiers de la Recherche.
Clarissa, a voice-enabled procedure browser developed by NASA Ames, ICSI, UCSC and Xerox Research Center Europe, was successfully tested for the first time on the International Space Station on June 27th by astronaut John Phillips. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first ever use of a spoken dialogue system in space. During the test, Phillips completed the interactive Clarissa training procedure, which exercises all the main system functionality. ICSI's Manny Rayner worked on the development of Clarissa and is thrilled that it is now working in space.
Clarissa home page on NASA's website.
Summary of system performance during the June 27 ISS test
ICSI technical report on spoken language processing in Clarissa
Article in New Scientist