[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 71 (Wednesday, April 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 19741]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-9054]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Submission For OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for 
collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
    Title: User Evaluation of DARPA Communicator Systems.
    Form Number(s): None.
    OMB Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden Hours: 120.
    Number of Respondents: 160.
    Average Hours Per Response: 5 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 
(DARPA) has provided funds to NIST to evaluate the DARPA Communicator 
implementations that have been built by research groups also funded by 
DARPA for that purpose. The evaluation is user-based and the users are 
paid research subjects. The subjects will fill out a user questionnaire 
that is intended to assess their user-satisfaction and subjective 
opinion about various aspects of each system that are being objectively 
measured. The information collected is intended to achieve three goals: 
(1) help implementors of Communicator programs to identify the 
successes and weaknesses of their implementations; (2) enable the 
research sponsor (DARPA) to identify and measure progress in order to 
assess the success of the program; and (3) advance the state of 
research knowledge about metrics and evaluation of task-based spoken 
dialogue systems.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker, (202) 395-3897.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, 
(202) 482-3272, Department of Commerce, Room 5027, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
[email protected]).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to David Rostker, OMB Desk Officer, Room 10202, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: April 6, 2000.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-9054 Filed 4-11-00; 8:45 am]
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