Multimodal event parsing for intelligent user interfaces

  • Authors:
  • Will Fitzgerald;R. James Firby;Michael Hannemann

  • Affiliations:
  • Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI;I/NET, Inc., Chicago, IL;I/NET, Inc., Chicago, IL

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Many intelligent interfaces must recognize patterns of user activity that cross a variety of different input channels. These multimodal interfaces offer significant challenges to both the designer and the software engineer. The designer needs a method of expressing interaction patterns that has the power to capture real use cases and a clear semantics. The software engineer needs a processing model that can identify the described interaction patterns efficiently while maintaining meaningful intermediate state to aid in debugging and system maintenanceIn this paper, we describe an input model, a general recognition model, and a series of important classes of recognition parsers with useful computational characteristics; that is, we can say with some certainty how efficient the recognizers will be, and the kind of patterns the recognizers will accept. Examples illustrate the ability of these recognizers to integrate information from multiple channels across varying time intervals.