Companion technology for multimodal interaction

  • Authors:
  • Frank Honold;Felix Schüssel;Florian Nothdurft;Peter Kurzok

  • Affiliations:
  • Ulm University, Ulm, Germany;Ulm University, Ulm, Germany;Ulm University, Ulm, Germany;Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We present a context adaptive approach for multimodal interaction for the use in cognitive technical systems, so called Companion Systems. Such systems yield properties of multimodality, individuality, adaptability, availability, cooperativeness and trustworthiness. These characteristics represent a new type of interactive systems that are not only practical and efficient to operate, but as well agreeable, hence the term "companion". Companion technology has to consider the entire situation of the user, machine, and environment. The presented prototype depicts a system that offers assistance in the task of wiring the components of a home cinema system. The user interface for this task is not predefined, but built on the fly by dedicated fission and fusion components, thereby adapting the system's multimodal output and input capabilities to the user and the environment.