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What is Multimodal User Interface

Chapter 28
Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology
A user interface with which users can choose to interact with a system through one of the supported modalities, or multiple modalities simultaneously, based on the usage environment or preference. Multimodal user interface can increase the usability because the strength of one modality often compensates for the weaknesses of another.
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Speech-Centric Multimodal User Interface Design in Mobile Technology
Dong Yu (Microsoft Research, USA) and Li Deng (Microsoft Research, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-871-0.ch028
Abstract
Multimodal user interface (MUI) allows users to interact with a computer system through multiple human- computer communication channels or modalities. Users have the freedom to choose one or more modalities at the same time. MUI is especially important in mobile devices due to the limited display and keyboard size. In this chapter, we provide a survey of the MUI design in mobile technology with a speech-centric view based on our research and experience in this area (e.g., MapPointS and MiPad). In the context of several carefully chosen case studies, we discuss the main issues related to the speechcentric MUI in mobile devices, current solutions, and future directions.
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