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Title: Programming the multimodal interface

Conference ·
OSTI ID:10157616
 [1];  [2]
  1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States). Dept. of Computer Science
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)

Fundamental problems will confront those who wish to take full advantage of the power of tomorrow`s multimodal environments. We argue that our recently introduced concept of meta-widget, when embedded within a high level, networked user interface server, can support the effective implementation of complex multimedia applications. We develop algorithms which enable a multimodal system to select the ``best`` combination of representations for the various ``information packets`` in a display at any moment. If no acceptable - combination of available representations can be found, strategies are provided for creating a new and useful, if not beautiful, representation to resolve the impasse. A running example is provided to motivate and clarify the discussion.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
10157616
Report Number(s):
UCRL-JC-112195; CONF-9304147-1; ON: DE93013084; CNN: CDA-8805910
Resource Relation:
Conference: INTERCHI `93: interact and computation human interaction,Amsterdam (Netherlands),24-29 Apr 1993; Other Information: PBD: 10 Sep 1992
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English