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SM Guide

SM Guide

SM Guide is an innovative product which assists customers in locating a product within a specific store (such as supermarket). SM Guide consists of a module capable of processing, networking, speech recognition and graphical displaying (supporting touch-screens). The customers can interact with the module by means of speech commands and receive the results through video and/or audio.

Customer requests can be broadly categorized into search by:

  • Product genre (e.g. "baby products")
  • Product type (e.g. "diapers")
  • Product and brand (e.g. "Pampers diapers")
  • Brand and type (e.g. "Pampers baby dry")

SM Guide responses can be categorized into:

  • Graphical or verbal directions to a matched product or a list of matched products upon further selection from the customer (e.g. "Hall B/Shelve A: Go left, right and again right"), based on the current location of the SM Guide terminal
  • Representation of the current SM Guide terminal location and the matched product(s) locations on a map where the customer is able to get further directions for each of them by touching it (or saying it).